Speech Therapist

Overview

Enjoy a great team environment? Then here's your start! Join our beautiful Spring Mill Assisted Living & rehabilitation Campus located in heart of Merrillville.

Open Interviews held Monday-Friday 9am - 4pm. Our most important goal is to provide the highest standard of care to our residents in an environment that is safe and secure. As an Occupational Therapist, you will be responsible for helping patients regain their ability to perform daily living and work activities, as well as improving our residents and their loved one’s experience.

Here at Spring Mill we pride ourselves in maintaining a safe, clean, and healthy environment.

At Spring Mill, you can expect:

• Evaluating levels of swallowing, speech and language difficulty
• Identifying treatment options
• Creating and carrying out individualized treatment plans addressing specific functional needs
• Teaching patients how to make sounds while improving their voices and maintaining fluency
• Helping individuals improve sentence structure and vocabulary used in written and oral language
• Working with adults and children in developing and strengthening muscles used to swallow
• Counseling individuals and families on ways to cope with swallowing and communication disorders

• An active Indiana professional license for Speech Therapy
• Compassionate and Patient
• Strong interpersonal skills, especially when it comes to delivering sensitive information to patients and/or families
• Ability to think critically under pressure
• Possess leadership and supervisory ability and the willingness to work harmoniously with other personnel
• Be able to make independent decisions concerning above job duties
• Possess the ability to deal tactfully with personnel, residents, family members, visitors, government agencies/personnel, vendors, and the general public
• Be knowledgeable of admissions, nursing and medical practices and procedures, as well as laws, regulations, and guidelines that pertain to long-term care

• Full time position
• Monday-Friday and some weekends required
• Rotating Holiday Schedule

Thank you very much for your interest in working as an Speech Therapist for Spring Mill Health Campus. We appreciate your time and review each and every resume that is submitted to our HR department. You will receive an email within 48 hours that confirms your application has been acknowledged. If you are selected to participate in the interview process, you will receive an email or call within 2 business days.