Outpatient Speech Language Pathologist Part Time

BHS Baptist Healthcare System; Elizabethtown (KY); On-site; USD 42,000 - 66,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Tuition Assistance reimbursement

Maternity and Paternity leave

Bereavement Leave (includes pets)

Paid Time Off

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Baptist Health is seeking an Outpatient Speech Language Pathologist for a part-time, first-shift position. You will plan and implement treatment programs for individuals and groups, collaborating with an interdisciplinary team and maintaining communication with doctors and health staff.

You will also contribute to staff education, follow hospital policies, and support students and volunteers as needed.

Qualifications

• Requires a Master’s or Doctoral degree in the area of speech language pathology or communication disorders from a program accredited by the ASHA (or higher).
• Kentucky State License or interim license as a Speech Language Pathologist required.
• Certificate of Clinical Competence from ASHA or in CFY if interim license is held.
• BLS from American Heart Association (AHA) - required within 90 days of hire.

Responsibilities

• Plan and implement specific treatment programs for individual patients and patient groups.
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to evaluate and treat patients and maintain communication with doctors and health personnel.
• Supervise volunteers and students as part of the therapy services.
• Assist with education for the speech therapy staff, hospital staff, and the community as needed.
• Follow hospital and departmental policies and procedures.

Skills

Team collaboration

Education & training

Education

Master's or Doctoral degree in Speech Language Pathology/communication disorders

Job description

Summary Job Description: Outpatient Speech Therapist Part‑time, first shift

The Speech Language Pathologist shall plan and implement specific treatment programs for individual patients and patient groups according to the principles and practices of speech therapy. Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams including evaluate and treat patients; maintain communication with doctors and other health personnel; and supervise volunteers and students. The Speech Language Pathologist will assist with education for the speech therapy staff, hospital staff, and community at large as needed. The Speech Language Pathologist will follow hospital and departmental policies and procedures. The Speech Language Pathologist follows hospital and departmental policies and procedures.

Requirements

• Requires a Master's or Doctoral degree in the area of speech language pathology or communication disorders from a program accredited by the Council for Academic Accreditation of the American Speech Language Hearing Association, or higher.
• Kentucky State License or interim license as an Speech Language Pathologist required.
• Certificate of Clinical Competence from the American Speech Hearing Association or in the case of an interim license, is in their Clinical Fellowship Year (CFY) required.
• BLS from American Heart Association (AHA) - required within 90 days of hire.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in acute care, SNF, and/or outpatient experience preferred.

Benefits

• Tuition Assistance reimbursement program
• Company paid Maternity and Paternity leave
• Bereavement Leave (includes pets)
• Paid Time Off available upon hire
• Employee Assistance Program

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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