Speech Language Pathologist
Core
Provides therapy to patients with communication, cognitive, or swallowing impairments in an inpatient acute care setting.
Role type
Speech Language Pathologist (IC)
Builds
Patient rehabilitation plans and therapeutic interventions
Domain
Healthcare / Rehabilitation
Deliverable
physical/clinical work
Required skills
Clinical assessment, therapeutic intervention design, data gathering, clinical judgment, goal setting, care coordination, supervision, scheduling
Preferred skills
Performance improvement, process improvement, program development
Technologies
None stated
Responsibilities
Assess patients based on physician referrals, gather health data and select tests, make clinical diagnoses, design and modify therapeutic interventions, involve patients/families in goal setting, coordinate care and documentation, supervise therapeutic programs, manage daily patient schedules
Seniority
Individual Contributor