Acute Care Speech-Language Pathologist

Baptist Health (Kentucky); Springlee (KY); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on bonus

Job summary

Baptist Health Louisville Speech Pathology is seeking an experienced Speech-Language Pathologist to join the Louisville Therapies team. The role focuses on dysphagia, speech, language and cognitive disorders in adult and geriatric patients, with care across acute and outpatient settings.

Applicants must hold Kentucky licensure, CCC from ASHA, and CPR/BLS certification; a sign-on bonus is available for experienced candidates who join our collaborative, patient-centered care team.

Qualifications

• Licensed in Speech-Language Pathology in Kentucky.
• ASHA CCC certification (Clinical Certification in Speech-Language Pathology).
• Current Basic Life Support (CPR/BLS) certification.

Responsibilities

• Schedule, evaluate and treat patients as assigned.
• Develop an outcome-oriented plan of care and share knowledge with patients and families.
• Provide treatment based on the plan and revise as necessary, maintaining documentation and billing.

Skills

Licensed in KY

CCC-ASHA

CPR/BLS

Education

Master's degree in Speech-Language Pathology

KY License

Job description

Summary Job Description

Speech Pathologist, Louisville Therapies Sign On Bonus Available for Experienced Candidates

Where You'll Be

The Baptist Health Louisville Speech Pathology team is focused on providing collaborative patient-centered care. Our team consists of a range of experiences from 1-20+ years. We serve patients that from adult and geriatric with an emphasis on dysphagia and speech/language or cognitive disorders. Treatment is typically a combination of acute care and outpatient rehabilitation. Diagnoses and treats communication and/swallowing disorders as assigned. Diagnoses may include, but are not limited to neurological disorders, deficits due to injury or surgery, developmental or acquired speech, language and swallowing disorders, hearing impairment, voice or fluency disorders, impaired cognition, sensorimotor deficits. Cooperates with other departments and therapies in the comprehensive approach to patient care.

What You'll Do

• Schedule, evaluate and treat patients as assigned
• Develop an outcome-oriented plan of care, including patient and family knowledge sharing
• Provide a treatment based on plan of care, and revise as necessary
• Accurately maintain all patient documentation, including computerized documentation, and complete appropriate charging for evaluation, treatment and teaching

Why You're a Great Fit

• You are licensed in Speech-Language Pathology from the State of Kentucky
• You have a CCC (Certificate of Clinical Competence) from American Speech Hearing Association
• You have or will obtain Basic Life Support (CPR) certification

If you would like to be part of a growing family focused on supporting clinical excellence, teamwork and innovation.

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.

Baptist Health's eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana.

Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama.

Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states.

Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence.

Baptist Health's employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has more than 1,820 employed providers offering care in 78 specialties, including approximately 862 physicians and 958 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health's physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.

EEO Statement

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and seeks to employ individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, religious or political beliefs, protected veteran status, employment status or any other protected class identified in any federal, state, or local law.

Baptist Health specifically encourages minority, female, disabled, veteran and other candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply and strengthen our team.

Please note that Baptist Health is a drug-free workplace and employment with Baptist Health is subject to post-offer, pre-employment drug testing.

NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMATION AND ACCESSIBILITY TO SERVICES

Persons with hearing and speech impairments can contact Baptist Health facilities by using the Kentucky Relay Service, a toll-free telecommunication device for the deaf (TDD). For voice to TDD, call 800.648.6057. For TDD to voice, call 800.648.6056.

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