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Department:
CC014301 Speech Pathology - Little RockWeekday day shift (plus weekend and holiday rotation) - Outpatient with focus on evaluation and treatment of pediatric feeding and swallowing disorders
Provides a wide range of speech, language, oral-motor and feeding evaluations and interventions with patients from birth through 21 years of age.
Master's Degree
Entry Level - Experience not Required.
Audiology & Speech Pathology - 1 year Pediatric, Hospital or Rehabilitation experience
Speech-Language Pathology License - AR Board of Examiners Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology
Clinical Competence – Speech Lang. Path. (CCC-SLP) - American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA), Will accept ABESPA “OK to Work” letter while licensure is being processed. - Will accept ABESPA “OK to Work” letter while lice AR Board of Examiners Speech Language Pathology and Audiology
1. Performs speech/language/swallowing evaluations and screenings.
2. Reviews medical records and interviews parent/caregiver/ and other professionals to obtain pertinent health information and relevant patient histories prior to each evaluation to determine a developmentally appropriate protocol.
3. Determines evaluation goals and tailors test battery to specific needs of individual patients within the comprehensive scope of practice assigned, including both formal and informal measures.
4. Interprets and synthesizes test results, history and functional observation to form a diagnostic impression and formulates a comprehensive and specific recommendation based on the goals functional outcomes of patient.
5. Implements a specific plan of action with measurable goals leading to improved functional outcomes, integrating speech/language (or feeding/swallowing) goals into overall plan of care for patient.
6. Selects and develops intervention materials for treatment of communication and related disorders, incorporating goals and education for the patient's family and significant others into the ongoing treatment plan to maximize progress; adapting procedures, strategies, and materials to meet patient's individual needs.
7. Documents patient contacts for both in-patient and out-patient services using chart notes, departmental, and hospital approved forms, and maintains current treatment plans and goals in the hospital charts, in addition to departmental charts.
8. Maintains patient and billing records and completes any required third party payer forms according to guidelines.
9. Produces evaluation reports and documents patient, family and professional understanding regarding carryover plan and recommendations prior to discharge.
10. Other duties as assigned.
Arkansas Children's is the only healthcare system in the state solely dedicated to caring for Arkansas' more than 700,000 children. The private, non-profit organization includes two pediatric hospitals, a pediatric research institute and USDA nutrition center, a philanthropic foundation, a nursery alliance, statewide clinics, and many education and outreach programs — all focused on fulfilling a promise to define and deliver unprecedented child health. Arkansas Children’s Hospital (ACH) is a 336-bed, Magnet-recognized facility in Little Rock operating the state’s only Level I pediatric trauma center; the state's only burn center; the state's only Level IV neonatal intensive care unit; the state's only pediatric intensive care unit; the state’s only pediatric surgery program with Level 1 verification from the American College of Surgeons (ACS); the state’s only magnetoencephalography (MEG) system for neurosurgical planning and cutting-edge research; and the state's only nationally recognized pediatric transport program. Arkansas Children’s Hospital is nationally ranked by U.S. News & World Report in seven pediatric specialties (2022—2023): Cancer, Cardiology & Heart Surgery, Diabetes & Endocrinology, Nephrology, Neurology & Neurosurgery, Pulmonology and Urology. Arkansas Children’s Northwest (ACNW), the first and only pediatric hospital in the Northwest Arkansas region, is a level IV pediatric trauma center. ACNW operates a 24-bed inpatient unit; a surgical unit with five operating rooms; outpatient clinics offering over 20 subspecialties; diagnostic services; imaging capabilities; occupational therapy services; and Northwest Arkansas' only pediatric emergency department, equipped with 30 exam rooms. Generous philanthropic and volunteer engagement has sustained Arkansas Children's since it began as an orphanage in 1912, and today ensures the system can deliver on its promise of unprecedented child health. To learn more, visit archildrens.org.
