Job Objective: Plan and administer medically prescribed treatment programs for residents/patients in an effort to restore functional communication, swallowing, and cognition.
Job Standards
- Successful completion of a Master’s or Doctoral degree in Speech-Language Pathology and Communication disorders from an accredited college/university.
- Hold a Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC) as awarded by the American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA)
- Be licensed in the State of Wisconsin.
- Good health status.
- Ability to read and write English and communicate oral and written instructions.
- Adheres to safety policies and procedures
Essential Job Functions
- Adheres to the philosophy, policies and procedures of Cedar Crest, Inc.
- Understands and supports the Resident Bill of Rights.
- Adheres to safety policies and procedures.
- Reviews and evaluates physician’s referrals and patient medical records to determine speech language therapy treatment.
- Performs appropriate tests, measurements, and assessments for the purpose of developing, monitoring, and adjusting the individual treatment plan.
- Performs appropriate therapeutic treatments according to patient needs, goals, plans, and standards of practice of the profession.
- Adheres to departmental policies and procedures regarding documentation, personal work schedule, and patient treatment scheduling, communication guidelines with other departments, et. al.
- Implements appropriate departmental policies to ensure compliance with all applicable laws, professional standards, and funding source requirements.
- Participates in interdisciplinary conferences, family conferences, and departmental meetings.
- Confers with physicians and other health professionals as appropriate for the patient plan of care.
- Participates with facility quality assurance programs as necessary.
- Provides in-services and training to families, staff, as appropriate
Physical and Mental Requirements
- Able to perform gross body coordination such as walking, standing. stooping, squatting, reaching at or above waist height, etc.
- Able to walk, stand, squat, bend, sit for prolonged periods
- Able to perform manipulative skills such as performing swallowing treatments adjusting, clothing, and performing patient evaluations, writing and collating, etc.
- Able to hear normal sounds within some background noise such as in answering phones, etc.
- Able to hear abnormal sounds within some background noise such as patient requests or conversation, or breath sounds without a stethoscope.
- Ability to lift, push, pull, transfer a person weighing greater than 100#
- Able to see adequately to work equipment properly, assess patient progress with therapeutic intervention and health status.
- Have a sense of touch necessary to perform therapeutic treatments, assess patient progress with therapeutic intervention and health status.
- Able to concentrate on moderate and fine detail with little, some, and constant interruption.
- Ability to integrate clinical information and translate into a speech-language therapy treatment plan.
- Ability to synthesize inputs from multiple models and sources to development/implement a speech language therapy treatment plan
- Ability to formulate and implement complex changes in a time bounded fashion in concert with multiple departments with varying agendas.