Speech Therapist- Part-time

Overview

Speech Therapist - Part-time Days -

As a part of Duke LifePoint Healthcare, our community hospital is being supported with more resources than ever before. Duke LifePoint combines Duke University Health System's unparalleled expertise in clinical excellence, quality and patient safety with LifePoint Health's financial resources and extensive operational experience - making our hospital even stronger.

Duke LifePoint Healthcare's pledge to our hospital and the communities we serve is quality, expertise and commitment.

• Provides direct patient care including evaluations, treatment, and reassessment for outpatient, COPS, acute, Rehab and RCU, demonstrating the ability/competency to properly address the ages of all patients.
• Completes all appropriate documentation for evaluations and treatments for the areas of outpatient, COPS, acute, Rehab and RCU.
• Maintains ASHA CEU requirements for licensure.
• Corresponds with appropriate sources (physicians, payer sources) within specified time frames regarding patient progress.
• Conducts patient/family training and counseling through regular contact in all settings.
• Consults with other professional resources and agencies in assuring proper transitions and carryover.
• Promotes and maintains a professional and courteous working relationship with the medical staff, patients and families, SLP associates, students and all other medical center staff.
• Actively participates in achieving customer satisfaction by actively seeking any information regarding satisfaction of care, meeting patient needs, as well as providing immediate information to Administrative Director relative to positive/ negative care issues which could help or hinder future referrals as well as impact PSMS scores.
• As assigned or as time allows, markets speech/language pathology services, participate in recruitment and selection of departmental staff, and participate in accrediting reviews (state, Joint Commission).

• A Masters degree, current NC license issued by the North Carolina Board of Examiners for SLPs and Audiologists