SPEECH LANGUAGE PATHOLOGIST (SLP) - ACUTE - COVENANT
Company: Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital
Location: Saginaw
Posted on: October 27, 2024
Job Description:
Speech Language Pathologist- Acute Care
Mon, Tues, Wed, Friday, 7:30-6pm. Thursdays off every week
Holiday and weekend rotations
We have the great privilege of helping patients and families
re-build their lives. It's extraordinarily meaningful work and the
reason we greet the day with optimism and anticipation. When
patients Ask for Mary, they experience a culture that has been
sculpted for more than a century. Our hallmark is to carefully
listen to patients and innovatively serve them. This is true of
every employee, from support staff and leadership, to clinicians
and care providers.
Mary Free Bed is a not-for-profit, nationally accredited
rehabilitation hospital serving thousands of children and adults
each year through inpatient, outpatient, sub-acute rehabilitation,
orthotics and prosthetics and home and community programs. With the
most comprehensive rehabilitation services in Michigan and an
exclusive focus on rehabilitation, Mary Free Bed physicians, nurses
and therapists help our patients achieve outstanding clinical
outcomes. The growing Mary Free Bed Network provides patients
throughout the state with access to our unique standard of
care.
Mission Statement
Restoring hope and freedom through rehabilitation.
Summary:
Assumes full responsibility for evaluating patient's need for
speech therapy. Plans and executes individual treatment programs in
accordance with ASHA and SLP scope of practice. Keeps treatment
skills upgraded through continuing education, evidence based
research, and program development. Perform job responsibilities in
accordance with the program's strategic objectives and goals to
carry out organizational strategic objectives.
Essential Job Responsibilities:
Each job responsibility is related to the MFB Pillars of
Excellence. The responsibility is identified to a pillar by the
following letters: Q (Quality), S (Service), P (People), G
(Growth), F (Financial).
- Staff will provide patient care, treatment, and services within
the scope of their license, certification or registration and as
required by law and regulation.
- Provides patient care. (Q)
- Evaluates patient condition.
- Establishes treatment goals in collaboration with patient and
family as appropriate, and in collaboration with the treatment
team. Treatment goals should be interdisciplinary and
patient-centered whenever possible. Establishes written treatment
plan, and administers treatment for each patient according to the
stated goals. Delegates responsibilities to Speech Assistants as
appropriate.
- Re-evaluates patient's status and effects of treatment. Revises
treatment plan as necessary. Reviews revised goals with patient and
family as appropriate.
- Evaluates patient's need for medical equipment and orders the
appropriate equipment as necessary. Evaluates equipment upon
delivery and instructs patient, patient's family, and health care
workers on its use.
- Participates in planning for patient discharge by considering
and communicating with patient, family, community support/services,
and environmental limitations.
- Demonstrates competence in relevant software and hardware
required to meet job responsibilities. (Q)
- Documents patient's status and progress through initial
evaluation, progress notes, and discharge summary according to
established internal/external time standards and adherence to
reimbursement guidelines. (Q)
- Communicates with others to integrate speech language pathology
services with all aspects of patient care. (Q,S)
- Participates in conferences/discussions as needed and exchange
of written records with other interdisciplinary team members to
integrate speech language pathology treatment plan.
- Instructs the patient and the family in speech language
pathology procedures as part of providing patient and family
education including written instructions as necessary.
- Attends various meetings and in-services as designated.
(Q,P)
- Follows all hospital policy and procedures including but not
limited to patient confidentiality and infection control. (Q)
- Meets or exceeds program productivity expectations. (F)
- Provides discipline specific coverage (following cross
training) within the Mary Free Bed system as requested.(F,S)
- Adheres to the Mary Free Bed Standards of Behavior when working
with patients, coworkers and members of the community. (Q,S,P)
- Supports program operations as assigned. (Q, S, P, G, F) Other
Job Responsibilities:
- Serves as clinical instructor for speech pathology students and
supervises CFY as needed. Supervises, teaches and evaluates skills
of students. Communicates with participating universities regarding
skill level of students. (S)
- Participates in program development and/or research activities
as assigned. (Q,G)
- Participates in orientation and training of new staff.
(Q,P)
- Demonstrates competence in relevant software and hardware
required to meet job responsibilities. (Q) Commitment to Diversity,
Equity and Inclusion
Embrace Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, by:
- Treating everyone with dignity and respect
- Opening more doors to opportunities for underrepresented
cultures
- Growing talent and people
- Evaluating and eliminating disparities
- Taking action against injustices, bias and racism
- Honoring our differences and how to collaborate
- Educating staff, patients and the communities we care for
- Restoring Hope and Freedom, together Essential Job
Qualifications (Knowledge, Education, and Training Requirements):
- M.S. or M.A. in Speech Pathology granted by an accredited
university program.
- Licensure with the State of Michigan.
- Holds the Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language
Pathology.
- Possesses and maintains BLS certification to meet
department/program protocol.
- Membership in ASHA.
- Physical Demands: The physical ability to lift, position, and
transport patients; the ability to constantly sit, occasionally
stand, walk, bend, kneel, twist, crawl, grasp, reach, and
frequently use hands for grasping; to hear, speak, write, and see
(correctable vision); to frequently lift 1-10 pounds, and
occasionally lift 11-100+ pounds; to frequently carry 1-10 pounds
and occasionally carry 11-35 pounds; to occasionally push anywhere
from 1-100 pounds; to occasionally pull up to 35 pounds; to exert
up to 20-50 pounds of force occasionally, 10-20 pounds of force
frequently, and exert up to 10 pounds of force constantly.
Mary Free Bed is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified
applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard
to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic
information, veteran status, disability or other legally protected
characteristic.
Keywords: Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital, Kentwood , SPEECH LANGUAGE PATHOLOGIST (SLP) - ACUTE - COVENANT, Healthcare , Saginaw, Michigan
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