Speech Language Pathologist, Full-time, Home Health

BAYADA Home Health Care; Clayton (DE); On-site; USD 75,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-on bonus

Comprehensive benefits

Scholarship opportunities

Career development tracks

Job summary

BAYADA Home Health Care at Bayhealth is seeking an experienced Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) for a full-time position delivering home health visits in the Dover, DE area. The role involves patient evaluations, treatment planning, and collaboration with a multidisciplinary team to support in-home rehabilitation and independence.

Responsibilities include making home visits, developing and adjusting plans, educating patients and families, and documenting care in an EMR system.

Qualifications

• Current DE license as a Speech Language Pathologist.
• ASHA CCC-SLP or equivalent for certification process.
• Experience or education path toward ASHA certification.
• Experience with EMR systems preferred.

Responsibilities

• Make home visits to clients in designated geographic territories.
• Perform evaluations and provide therapeutic interventions for speech, language, swallowing difficulties.
• Develop and revise treatment plans based on evaluations and goals.
• Educate patients and families on rehabilitative care.
• Document observations and interventions in EMR on a touch pad tablet.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary care team.

Skills

Solid computer skills

EMR experience

Education

DE Speech Language Pathologist license

ASHA CCC-SLP or equivalent

Education requirements for ASHA certification

Supervised work experience for certification

Tools

Electronic Medical Records (EMR) system

Job description

$7,000 Sign-on Bonus

BAYADA Home Health Care at Bayhealth is currently seeking an experienced Speech Language Pathologist, SLP, for a full-time opportunity performing home health visits for our office located in Dover, DE. This office services adult and geriatric patients in homes throughout Kent County area.

Prior home care experience as a Speech Language Pathologist, SLP is a plus, but not required.

As a home care Speech Language Pathologist, SLP, you will be an integral member of a multi-disciplinary health care team that provides rehabilitative care and skilled nursing to clients, affording them the opportunity to receive the medical care required to remain at home.

Speech Language Pathologist, SLP Responsibilities:

• Make home visits to clients in designated geographic territories.
• Perform thorough evaluations to assess, diagnose, and provide therapeutic interventions for clients who are experiencing speech, language, communication, or swallowing difficulties.
• Develop a treatment plan based on the evaluation, physician’s orders, and recommended goals.
• Continually assess and revise the speech therapy care plan, and participate with BAYADA clinicians in the multidisciplinary care plan, as appropriate.
• Educate and instruct patients, family members, or other patient representatives, in rehabilitative care and activities necessary to promote the client's health, safety, and independent living.
• Accurately document observations, interventions, and evaluations pertaining to patient care management and services provided, utilizing a state-of-the-art touch pad tablet.

Speech Language Pathologist, SLP Qualifications:

• A current license as a Speech Language Pathologist in DE.
• Possess a certificate of clinical competence in speech from the American Speech and Hearing Association, or;
• Have the equivalent educational requirements, as indicated by school transcript or diploma, and work experience necessary for such a certificate, and be awaiting the opportunity to take the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association examination for certification, or;
• Have completed the necessary work and education requirements, as indicated by school transcript or diploma, and be in the process of accumulating the necessary supervised work experience required for certification.
• Solid computer skills; prior experience with electronic medical records (EMR) preferred.

Our employees are our greatest asset:

• Enjoy being part of a team that cares and a company that believes in leading with our values.
• Comprehensive benefits package including paid time off, health, dental, and vision.
• Develop your skills with training and scholarship opportunities.
• Advance your career with specially designed career tracks.
• Be recognized and rewarded for your compassion, excellence, and reliability.

Additional Information:

Base Pay, depending upon qualifications, status, and subject to negotiation:

$75.00-$80.00 per point ($117,00 - $124,800 annual earning potential)

As an accredited, regulated, certified, and licensed home health care provider, BAYADA complies with all state/local mandates.

BAYADA is celebrating 50 years of compassion, excellence, and reliability. Learn more about our 50th anniversary celebration and how you can join in here.

BAYADA Home Health Care, Inc., and its associated entities and joint venture partners, are Equal Opportunity Employers. All employment decisions are made on a non-discriminatory basis without regard to sex, race, color, age, disability, pregnancy or maternity, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, military status, or any other similarly protected status in accordance with federal, state and local laws. Hence, we strongly encourage applications from people with these identities or who are members of other marginalized communities.