Speech Language Pathologist
Core
Provides therapy to patients with communication, cognitive, or swallowing impairments to help them regain independence.
Role type
Speech Language Pathologist (IC)
Builds
Patient rehabilitation programs 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
Tests and measures for speech, language, and swallowing assessment
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 billing, supervise therapeutic programs, manage daily patient schedules
Seniority
Individual Contributor