As a Home Health Speech Language Pathologist (SLP), you play a vital role in strengthening your community-one patient, one home, one relationship at a time. You provide skilled, compassionate care that helps patients recover, manage chronic conditions, and live safely and independently at home, while using your clinical expertise to prevent hospitalizations, empower patients and families, and improve long-term outcomes through trusted relationships and coordinated care.
What You'll Do As a Speech Language Pathologist (SLP), you will:
- Assist the physician or other licensed independent practitioner in evaluating the patient's level of communication deficit, hearing and swallowing function, as well as in developing the resulting plan of care/treatment including appropriate long term treatment goals, selection of interventions, and the intensity, frequency and duration of services to meet the needs of an individual patient.
- Completes initial and ongoing comprehensive assessments at appropriate time points as assigned.
- Selects and teaches task-oriented therapeutic activities designed to improve comprehension and production of language in oral, signed or written modalities; speech and voice production; auditory training; speech reading; and communication strategies using multi-modal training (e.g. visual, auditory-visual, and tactile).
- Regularly assess changes in the patient's status since the last visit/treatment day, and determine whether the planned services should be modified, performing a re-evaluation and obtaining revision orders from the physician as indicated.
- Prepares and submits timely, legible, relevant and sufficient documentation - whether written or electronic - of treatment and skilled intervention provided, as well appropriate reports of a patient's progress toward goals in accordance with professional standards of practice, policy and procedures, and payor requirements.
- Advises and consults with the family and/or other caregivers to promote patient progress and planning for discharge.
- Participates in educating the patient and the family, and other caregivers to promote patient progress toward mutually established goals.
- Actively effectively communicates with other members of the interdisciplinary healthcare team providing care in order to promote coordination of patient care and planning for discharge.
- Visually and auditorily observes and assesses the patient.
What You'll Need - Master's or doctoral degree in Speech Language Pathology.
- Licensed as a Speech Language Pathologist in the state of South Carolina or Two (2) years of relevant experience as an SLP within the last five (5) years.
Apply Today If you are a Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) looking for a rewarding Home Health opportunity in Pickens, SC, we encourage you to apply and join a compassionate, patient focused team.
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