About This Role
The Speech Language Pathologist plays a vital role in providing high-quality home healthcare to patients, focusing on their rehabilitation needs in their preferred home setting. This position suits a compassionate and dedicated professional committed to making a difference in the home care industry.
Responsibilities
- Promote Elara Caring's philosophy, mission statement, and administrative policies to ensure quality of care
- Evaluate patients to determine rehabilitation needs and potential for achievement, then develop a plan of care in accordance with findings
- Admit patients and assess speech-language therapy and all other needs according to OASIS and PPS regulatory guidelines
- Make the initial therapy evaluation visit and re-evaluate the patient’s speech language therapy needs during each visit
- Make follow-up assessments according to OASIS and PPS regulatory guidelines
- Initiate a plan for patient safety, using patient, family, and community resources
- Communicate significant findings, problems, and changes in condition or environment to the appropriate supervisor, physician, and other team members involved with patient care
- Participate in the implementation and development of the Plan of Care to ensure quality and continuity of care and proper discharge planning
- Verify the Plan of Care prior to each visit and provide care according to physician’s orders, assessment data, and established standards and guidelines
- Write physician orders to cover additional visits and changes to the Plan of Care, per agency policy
- Incorporate patient care goals established in the Plan of Care into therapy care, as evidenced by documentation in therapy notes
- Initiate and revise the Plan of Care in response to identified patient care issues
- Perform direct Speech-Language pathology services in accordance with accepted standards of practice and as certified by the patient’s physician
- Select diagnostic and therapeutic materials appropriate to patient needs
- Instruct and provide patients and/or their caregiver in the home therapy program, providing modification and clarification when necessary
- Assure clinical notes indicate continuing communication and coordination of services with physician, other staff, and disciplines
- Ensure that all therapy notes, supply log/visit logs are accurate and turned into the office according to office policy
Requirements
- Master’s degree from an accredited educational program in Language Pathology
- Current, unrestricted SLP license in the state of work
- Minimum one (1) year of experience as a SLP in a clinical care setting
- Able and willing to travel within the branch/office coverage area
