Associate Speech Pathologist-Level II

Apply for the Associate Staff Speech Pathologist-Level II position at NYC Health + Hospitals
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Base pay range: $72,924.00/yr - $72,924.00/yr

NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue is America’s oldest public hospital, established in 1736. Affiliated with the NYU School of Medicine, the 844-bed hospital is a major referral center for highly complex cases, with its 6,000 employees including highly skilled, interdisciplinary clinical staff. It sees more than 110,000 emergency room visits and 700,000 outpatient visits annually. Bellevue is an academic medical institution of international renown, serving as an incubator for major innovations in public health, medical science, and medical education.

It is a Level I Trauma Center delivering around-the-clock care in adult, pediatric, psychiatric, and pediatric psychiatric emergencies as well as nationally‑designated specialties in cardiology, neurology, toxicology, and neonatology. In addition to comprehensive inpatient and outpatient state‑of‑the‑art care, Bellevue is a city-wide medical specialty referral source with clinical centers of excellence including Emergency Medicine and Trauma Care;
Cardiovascular Services; a Designated Regional Perinatal Center and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU); a Comprehensive Children’s Psychiatric Emergency Program; and Cancer Services.

At NYC Health + Hospitals, our mission is to deliver high quality care services, without exception. Every employee takes a person‑centered approach that exemplifies the ICARE values (Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence) through empathic communication and partnerships between all persons.

• Identifies patients with speech, language and related disorders, upon medical referral, and determines etiology, history and severity of specific disorders through interviewing and testing techniques.
• Assesses, evaluates, analyzes and treats communicative and other problems resulting from speech, language and related disorders and the diseases or traumas that caused them.
• Investigates and studies the underlying causes, precipitating factors, symptomatic behavior and emotional effects as well as the functional impact of speech and language disorders upon the patient.
• Plans programs designed to restore or improve the communicative ability of patients with physiogenic, neurogenic or psychogenic speech and language disorders in order to produce, improve or restore appropriate communication skills.
• Treats speech, language and related disorders such as aphasia, dysarthria, phonological defect, language delay, stuttering and voice disorders including laryngectomy, disorders affecting the geriatric population, and those secondary to traumatic injury.
• Consults with other health care professionals when necessary to determine the need for referrals to specialists in medicine, dentistry, education, psychology, social work or other related areas.
• Attends evaluation conferences and rounds to discern the progress and prognosis of patients under treatment.
• Schedules examinations and treatment, prepares case histories and summaries, and reports on the therapeutic progress and goals of patients under treatment.
• Counsels patients and/or families in their adjustment to speech, language and/or related impairments.
• Counsels pre‑operative or post‑operative patients to prepare them for appropriate post‑operative treatment.
• Keeps abreast of the latest developments in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with speech disorders.
• Checks equipment periodically to ensure proper functioning and calibration.
• Performs related duties.
• Evaluates and treats patients with more complex speech, language and related disorders. Sets treatment, goals, observes and documents progress and makes adjustments to therapy programs of patients in personnel case load.
• May coordinate total patient communication environment by working with school professionals, health care professionals, families and support groups. Recommends appropriate specialized educational institutions and special programs. May identify financial care and reimbursement eligibility, and expedites corresponding applications.
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