Speech Therapist

Overview

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.

• 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.

• Master's Degree in Speech Pathology
• Licensure or eligible for licensure in the State of Wyoming as a Speech Pathologist