The Speech Pathology Department provides evaluation and therapeutic services for patients with speech, language, cognitive, voice, and swallowing disorders. The department works collaboratively with interdisciplinary care teams to deliver evidence-based, patient-centered interventions that support communication, safety, and overall quality of life across the continuum of care.
Speech-Language Pathologist
PRN, Days
The Speech-Language Pathologist II (SLP)is responsible foridentifying, assessing, and treating patients
with cognitive communication and/or swallowing disorders. The SLP also provides counseling/ education to
patients, caregivers, and staffregardingcognitive-communicationand orswallowing disorders.
Conduct comprehensive diagnostic evaluations for adults whoexhibitcognitive-communication disorders and for neonates, infants, pediatrics, and adults whoexhibitfeeding/ swallowing disorders. These assessments incorporate both formal and informal test procedures. Diagnostic conclusions and recommendations are based upon test results, clinical observations, background/ history, and information from otherspecialist, patients, and caregivers.
Developappropriate treatmentplans and bases treatment methods and procedures on a definitive rationale, as an ongoing process, adapting to meet the patient’s needs.
Counsel patients and caregiversregardingthe cognitive-communicative swallowdisorder. Discuss progress and recommends follow-up services and/ or provides instruction for carry-over and/ or home programs, withpatient’sand caregivers upon discharge.
Communicate patient care needs, progress, and plans with the treatment team members to support theinterdisciplinary team model foroptimaltreatment outcomes.
Support collaborative and multidisciplinary research; applies research findings to practice and encourages,participatesin, and promotes research activities thatestablishthe outcomes of patient-management.
Requirements:
MastersDegree-Speech Language Pathology
Certification of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language Pathology (CCC-SLP) Must be obtained within 9 months for fulltime employees and18 monthsfor part-time employees.
Current and valid license to practice Speech-Language Pathology in the state of Kentucky
Maintain Certification of Clinical Competence from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
Must obtain BLS within30 days
Benefits: PRN (As Needed)
Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.
Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states.
Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence.
Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.
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