Speech Therapist

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Join our team and mission in Lander, WY! The Wyoming Life Resource Center (WLRC) seeks a Speech Therapist to work with our outstanding Therapies Team and provide speech therapy services to our residents. WLRC has an Intermediate Care Facility (ICF) and a new Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) as well. WLRC is truly an extraordinary place with a rich history and a bright future.

As part of the State of Wyoming Department of Health, our team members enjoy a competitive compensation and benefits package.

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• Provide communication, mealtime, oral motor, and hearing components of the functional assessments to maintain own caseload.
• Coordinate therapeutic programming to ensure active treatment for individuals served, including ongoing staff in-service.
• Ensure therapy program interventions meet the individual's needs through at least monthly monitoring and written monthly and/or quarterly progress notes and in-service.
• Teach the mealtime challenges class and other specialty subjects to staff. Ensure that staff training needs are met, specifically related to communication, therapeutic mealtime, and oral motor.
• Order and maintain necessary mealtime and communication equipment.
• Develop and maintain evaluation and training kits if they are not commercially available.
• Serve as a member of the Interdisciplinary Team and special committees.
• Coordinate the development of augmentative/alternative communication for non-verbal individuals, including the creation, construction, and maintenance of materials and/or equipment for AAC systems.
• Assist in providing community consultations, as needed.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Knowledge of the principles and techniques of speech and hearing therapy and rehabilitation.
• Knowledge of regulations, laws, professional ethics, and practices regarding Speech-Language Pathology or Audiology Services.
• Knowledge of research methods.
• Skills in decision-making, self-direction, organization, and prioritizing work activities.
• Ability to use a computer and applicable software applications.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to communicate positively with residents, staff, families, guardians, and the public.
• Ability to adapt to change, compromise, and recognize and accept differing professional expertise.
• Ability to participate effectively as a team member within the Interdisciplinary Team.
• Ability to work with and around WLRC residents, including those who may display challenging behaviors.
• Ability to write programs and perform oral motor, mealtime, and audiology assessments and interventions.

Education:

Master’s Degree in Speech Pathology

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:
Licensure or eligible for licensure in the State of Wyoming as a Speech Pathologist

• Recognize through sight and sounds, emergencies, and behavior management situations and physically respond to them.
• Must be able to safely move (twisting, bending, kneeling, pushing, pulling, positioning, and lifting people with multiple and severe disabilities.
• Ability to monitor sounds, noises, location of clients, etc. in order to assure safety and assess imminent danger and emerging concerns.

• FLSA:
  Exempt
• The Wyoming Life Resource Center participates in E-Verify. We will provide the Social Security Administration, and if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security, with information from each new employee's Form I-9 to confirm work authorization. Please note that we do not use this information to pre-screen job applicants.
• A background check, including the taking of fingerprints, will be completed through the Wyoming Department of Criminal Investigation, Department of Family Services, and the F.B.I. for every successful applicant.
• Pre-employment drug and alcohol testing will be conducted on safety-sensitive positions. Drug testing will be conducted on any position if reasonable suspicion exists.
• The Wyoming Department of Health offers an excellent benefits package, including medical/dental/vision/life insurance, paid vacation and sick leave, paid holidays, a state retirement plan, a deferred compensation program, and longevity pay.

The State of Wyoming is an Equal Opportunity Employer and actively supports the ADA and reasonably accommodates qualified applicants with disabilities.