Speech Pathologist Pediatric PRN Westlake

Position Summary/Essential Duties:

• Organizes and conducts the Speech-Language Pathology plan of care to facilitate the habilitation or rehabilitation of people with speech, language, cognitive-linguistic, psychosocial, and swallowing disabilities.
• Directs patient participation in selected activities to establish, enhance, and restore speech, language, cognitive-linguistic, psychosocial, and swallowing abilities.
• Performs evaluation(s), develops an effective treatment plan appropriate to a patient's rehabilitation needs within the care continuum, initiates and participates in the discharge planning process.
• Educates patient/family/caregiver in applicable health information, treatment and prevention.

Performs other department activities such as, but not limited to, documentation, billing, support of department operations, etc.

*Experience with providing speech services for people who are deaf/hard of hearing preferred.