SpeechLanguagePathologist

**Thank you for considering a career at Bon Secours!** **Scheduled Weekly Hours:** 0.01 **Work Shift: ** All Work Shifts (United States of America) **SHIFTS PRN Flexible As Needed** ** _Primary Function/General Purpose of Position_** The Speech Language Pathologist works to prevent, assess, diagnose, and treat speech, language, social communication, cognitive-communication, and swallowing disorders in children and adults. They perform patient evaluations, and re-evaluations, regarding the application of a wide variety of therapeutic techniques with special attention to receptive and expressive language skills, speech fluency, vocal and oral motor competence, articulation, and auditory skills. The Speech Language Pathologist establishes patient treatment plans based upon the referral from the physician/referral source. **_Essential Job Functions_** * _​_ Reviews physician referral, patient’s condition, and medical history to determine speech and language therapy treatment needs. * Performs and documents patient evaluation, re-evaluation and develops treatment and discharge plans based on patient history, signs and symptoms and evaluative tests/tools. * Plans and administers medically prescribed speech language pathology treatments to patients. * Plans rehabilitative treatment programs based upon physician prescription and evaluation data to treat disorders of verbal written language, voice articulation, fluency interactive communication, mastication, deglutition, auditory and/or visual processing and memory and cognition / communication. * Instructs and/or trains patient and family/caregiver in treatment procedures to continue at home. * Modifies treatment goals and plan of care as appropriate. Communicates with other health team members. Involved with patient care conferences as appropriate. * Instructs, motivates, and assists patient and family to perform various speech activities. * Responsible for overall management of patient cases including communication and co