Job Description
Job Description
What You Will Do
- Effectively and efficiently prioritizes visit content and plans visits based on client&
- capabilities, condition, preferences (when possible), physician orders and available resources.
- Maintains a working knowledge of applicable Federal, State and local laws and regulations, the Organizational Integrity Program, Code of Ethics, as well as agency policies and procedures and adheres in a manner that reflects honest, ethical and professional behavior.
- Accurately assesses clients at admission, at required time points, utilizing appropriate standardized documentation. Assesses the client’s condition for speech therapy or audiology services.
- Develops appropriate assessment-based plan of treatment with physician and client. Plan includes attainable episode goals and agency services needed to improve and / or stabilize client’s medical condition and promote independence.
Participates in timely revision of the plan of treatment as appropriate.
- Makes appropriate referrals for evaluation / care to other disciplines and services, and coordinates care with others to ensure effective and efficient care is provided.
- Utilizes interview, observation and evaluation in assessing clients and apply professional judgment, consistent with practice standards, in formulating interventions and making recommendations to the physician and client.
- Initiates and implements preventive, therapeutic and rehabilitative procedures and techniques in accordance with the plan of treatment.
- Assists and instructs client and family members on methods of helping clients improve communication, swallowing or other deficits.
Minimum Qualifications
Meets the educational and experience requirements for a Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech Pathology granted by the American Speech and Hearing Association;
or, meets the educational requirements for certification and is in the process of accumulating the supervised experience required for certificate.
- Registration or license to practice as a speech pathologist in the state of Iowa.
- Must accept responsibility for maintaining clinical practice skills, learning and adhering to agency’s policies and procedures on an on-going basis.
- Must be able to function in a practice environment with minimal direct supervision, accepting personal responsibility for maintaining a professional relationship with the agency’s clients and their families.
- Must have current Driver’s license and reliable transportation to and from work site.&
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