Outpatient Speech Pathologist

Summary

The Speech‑Language Pathologist reports directly to the Clinical Manager and/or Assistant Clinical Manager (ACM) of their respective department and may receive clinical guidance from senior staff and/or clinical specialists. The Speech‑Language Pathologist provides clinical services including screening, assessment, diagnosis, intervention, management, counseling/education, documentation, and referral for inpatients and outpatients demonstrating speech, voice, feeding, swallowing, language, and/or cognitive impairments.

Brown University Health employees are expected to successfully role‑model the organization’s values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence as these values guide our everyday actions with patients, customers, and one another. In addition to our values, all employees are expected to demonstrate the core Success Factors which tell us how we work together and how we get things done:
Instill Trust and Value Differences
, Patient and Community Focus and Collaborate
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• Communicate with the highest level of professionalism with patients, caregivers, rehabilitation staff, providers, and other health care professionals, both within the academic medical center and in the community.
• Evaluates speech, voice, language, feeding/swallowing, and/or cognitive impairments; establishes diagnosis, prognosis, and individualized plans of care.
• Implements treatment intervention based on plan of care, considering precautions, indications, and contradictions; directs and coordinates patients’ rehabilitation plan of care.
• Evaluates patients’ progress and revises goals and plan of care accordingly.
• Educates and trains patients/caregivers; anticipates and communicates discharge/home needs and resources.
• Completes documentation and charges timely and accurately, in compliance with department policy; consistently applies evidence‑based practice to all aspects of clinical care.
• Seeks additional guidance when necessary to assure safe and effective patient care; recommends and refers for additional diagnostic testing and/or services; develops, selects, and prescribes multimodal augmentative and alternative communication systems, including unaided strategies (e.g., manual signs/gestures) and aided strategies (e.g., speech‑generating devices, manual communication boards, picture schedules).
• Uses instrumental technology to diagnose and treat disorders of communication and swallowing (e.g., Videofluoroscopy, Fiber optic Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing, Videostroboscopy, neuromuscular electrical stimulation, computer technology).
• Services patients and their families/caregivers with hearing loss (e.g., auditory training for patients with cochlear implants and hearing aids; speech and language intervention secondary to hearing loss). Provides assessment and intervention for patients diagnosed with auditory processing disorders; screens patients for hearing loss or middle ear pathology using conventional pure‑tone air conduction methods; modifies and/or enhances communication performance (e.g., accent modification, care and improvement of the professional voice).
• Complies with hospital and departmental policies and guidelines; participates in strategic departmental quality improvement initiatives; provides education to other hospital departments/personnel, students, and outside agencies/schools.
• Demonstrates ability to flex schedule based on department, patient, and/or caregiver need; determines priorities according to departmental and patient care need; participates in community‑based professional events; participates in ongoing educational activities; supports and promotes departmental teamwork; completes mandatory departmental and hospital training on time.

• Master’s degree in Speech‑Language Pathology from an accredited institution.
• State License issued by the Rhode Island Department of Health, or Provisional Rhode Island State License for Clinical Fellows involved in supervised clinical fellowship year.
• Certificate of Clinical Competence from the American Speech‑Language‑Hearing Association (ASHA). For clinical fellows, evidence of pursuit…