Speech Language Pathologist - PRN

Rehabilitation team members are licensed or certified professionals (physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech/language pathologists, social workers or therapeutic recreation specialists who work within a specific team structure to offer inpatient or outpatient rehabilitation services. These services are offered to the acute-care hospital, the acute inpatient rehabilitation facility (Dodd Hall), or outpatient service sites to patients who have disorders and conditions associated primarily with traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, stroke, or other neurogenic disorders, orthopedic problems, burns, amputations, or chronic pain. The rehabilitation team members report to the rehabilitation team leaders as part of the overall Rehabilitation Services Division structure. Patient populations served across the organization include, but are not limited to, neurology, oncology, inmates, critical care, transplant, cardiopulmonary.

Each rehabilitation team member is first a part of a group effort to provide care within a continuous performance improvement environment, and secondly a distinct professional who provides specific contributions to the team approach. Team members assess patients and establish together plans of care; provide a wide variety of treatment techniques; provide education and support to families; and facilitate continuing care planning. Team members evaluate quality of services and participate in outcomes management activities. Although team members report directly to a team leader, they are also responsible to each other, to those they supervise (rehab assistants and aides) and to other participants in patient care activities, including attending and resident physicians, nurses, their support staff, and Patient Care Resource Managers to assure coordination of services and programs. A team member embraces the Intensive Caring values of the organization and uses them to guide interactions with others.

Minimum Education Required
Master's Level Degree or equivalent combination of education and experience

Required Qualifications
Must be licensed and/or certified with the respective profession (speech/language pathology). Master's Degree is required. All academic degrees must have been granted from an accredited institution. Speech pathologists must hold a license in the State of Ohio, and a Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC/SLP). Those completing a Clinical Fellowship Year (CFY/SLP) may be considered. All licensed professionals must be cleared through the National Database of Practitioners.

Typically, one-two years experience working in a medical setting is preferred for all professionals hired.

Duties and Responsibilities:

The Performance Excellence Criteria and Job Description Categories of Workplace of Choice, Quality, Productivity and Efficiency, Financial performance, Service and Reputation and Innovation and Strategic Growth should be interwoven throughout the employees position description.

75% of the time Clinical Practice

Each rehabilitation team member provides services according to: the laws of the state of Ohio governing licensed professionals; standards of practice, scope of practice, clinical guidelines, and codes of ethics published by respective national professional associations; and OSUMC policies and procedures governing the work of licensed clinical professionals. All staff must meet standards established by the Rehabilitation Division as part of the OSUMC performance excellence appraisal system. Core competencies include Workplace of Choice, Quality, Productivity and Efficiency, Financial Performance, Service and Reputation and Innovation and Strategic Growth. These core areas are integral to successful clinical practice.

Clinical Practice consists of patient/family orientation, evaluations, assessments, observations, treatment procedures, training, interventions, educational sessions, and counseling conducted as part of a team approach or as a single practitioner. The documentation of care and communication about patients care among team members are integral components of clinical practice.

* Both evaluation and treatment sessions may be conducted in individual sessions with one or more practitioners (i.e. co-treatment), in groups of patients with similar or diverse skill levels, or within groupings of patients who focus on individual goals but participate in care within general treatment areas, other locations within the medical center or in the community.

* Professionals use a wide variety of approaches for evaluation and treatment, consistent with the individual needs of the persons served, their families, and caregivers. Approaches include: salient factors those key issues that must be addressed to achieve the established discharge plan; use of clinical pathways, algorithms, and clinical guidelines; use of specific protocols to address component functions or skills established within the Rehabilitation Plan of Care (as applicable to venue of care). Each practitioner within the patient care team is responsible for assuring a 24-hour rehabilitation

environment by establishing continuity of care among all shifts of team members though out the day.

* Education/training and support sessions are as important as sessions that focus of physical or other specified skills.

* Incorporates in-hospital activities and outings related to therapy goals.

* Clinical practice for licensed professional also includes the supervision of assistants (PTA, COTA), rehabilitation aides, and student medical assistants as assigned. Scope of work of assistants and aides is specified in their job descriptions, consistent with the laws of the State of Ohio and guidelines established by national professional associations.

* Documentation requirement and format vary, according to policies and procedures established by the venue of care (acute rehab, inpatient rehab, outpatient rehab)

15% of the time Team Activities

Team Activities are those that support care of the persons served, including scheduling, daily planning care conferences, alignment meetings/family conferences, patient progress note, internal continuing education sessions, team and divisional business meetings. Team members also participate in clinical quality and outcomes management activities. In addition, team members, may have opportunities to participate in medical center committee activities. Management personnel establish specific requirements and schedules for team activities in cooperation with team members.

* Manages the team in delivering care in accordance with the standards of practice for the Medical Center and for Rehabilitation and patients rights, including safety and infection control standards.

* Demonstrates understanding of job responsibilities and uses appropriate knowledge and skills to effectively complete work.

* Demonstrates compassion and sensitivity to patients, families, visitors and other staff. Is courteous and responsive to others and promotes mutual respect.

* Anticipates needs of customers and assumes responsibility for solving customer problems.

* Demonstrates cost-effective use of supplies and maintains patient care supplies at levels that meet patient care needs.

* Systematically organizes and prioritizes work to maximize productivity.

10% Professional Discipline Activities

It is important that in an interdisciplinary environment that rehabilitation team members maintain formal links with members of their own profession, having opportunities to pursue discipline-specific continuing education, teach students and other professional about aspects of practice, participate in research activities, and interact with members of their own profession within and outside the medical center.

All team members will establish specific goals and activities which related to their professional discipline, including in-service education and periodic discipline-specific professional business meetings conferences both within and outside the medical center. Some members of the rehabilitation team may have indirect, but specific ties to a central department of the medical center, if applicable.