Speech Pathologist

University of Washington; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 36,000 - 48,000; Part time

Job summary

UW Medical Center - Northwest in Seattle is seeking a part-time Speech Pathologist to provide professional speech, language, and audiology services within a multidisciplinary rehabilitation team. The role involves evaluation, treatment planning, and collaboration with physicians, therapists, and educators.

The position offers a Day Shift schedule and focuses on delivering high-quality care to patients with communication disorders in a top-tier rehabilitation program.

Qualifications

• Provides professional speech, language, and/or audiology services to individuals with communicative disabilities such as language disorders, hearing loss, or neurological speech disorders
• Identifies and evaluates hearing, language, and speech abilities using various diagnostic tools
• Develops treatment programs with cooperation of physicians, speech pathologists, audiologists, psychologists, and therapists

Responsibilities

• Provides professional speech, language, and/or audiology services to individuals with communicative disabilities such as language or articulation disorders, hearing loss or impairments, cerebral palsy, cleft palate, stuttering or voice disorders, neurological speech disorders
• Identifies and evaluates hearing, language, and speech abilities using various diagnostic tools
• Develops treatment programs with the cooperation of physicians, speech pathologists, audiologists, psychologists, social workers, physical and occupational therapists, counselors, and teachers
• Plans and provides for evaluation and treatment of individuals including auditory threshold evaluations and various testing techniques
• Confers with family, clinical personnel, teachers, and other professional staff in the evaluation, treatment, and progression of client
• Directs and evaluates speech-language or audiology students
• Provides non-medical rehabilitation services including hearing aid selection, fitting and training procedures
• Uses appropriate treatment methods for receptive and expressive language disabilities, aural habilitation/rehabilitation, articulation and voice disorders, stuttering and alternative communication methods
• Uses equipment such as digital audio recorders, software/hardware

Skills

Speech pathology

Language assessment

Audiology

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Student supervision

Tools

Digital audio recorders

Software/ hardware

Job description

Job Description

Speech Pathologist.

• Part-time (0.4 FTE / 16 hours per week)
• Day Shift

Job Description

UW Medical Center - Northwest has an outstanding opportunity for Speech Pathologist.

WORK SCHEDULE

• Part-time (0.4 FTE / 16 hours per week)
• Day Shift

Department Description

UW Medicine Rehabilitation - Our multidisciplinary team is centered around compassion and innovation. We work closely with many types of specialists to give each patient the best possible path to recovery. Our passion and dedication to our purpose has allowed us to be recognized by the U.S. News & World Report as one of the top rehabilitation programs in the nation. Become part of our team and join our mission to make life healthier for everyone in our community!

Primary Job Responsibilities

• Provides professional speech, language, and/or audiology services to individuals with communicative disabilities such as language or articulation disorders, hearing loss or impairments, cerebral palsy, cleft palate, stuttering or voice disorders, neurological speech disorders, or delayer/disordered articulation and language
• Identifies and evaluates hearing, language, and speech abilities using various diagnostic tools
• Develops treatment programs with the cooperation of physicians, speech pathologists, audiologists, psychologists, social workers, physical and occupational therapists, counselors, and teachers
• Plans and provides for evaluation and treatment of individuals including: the provision for follow-up auditory threshold evaluations on persons failing the initial test measures and on those who are unable to participate in routine evaluation procedures, behavioral observation audiometry techniques, visual reinforcement audiometry techniques, play audiometry, standard pure tone or speech audiometry techniques, site of lesion testing, impedance audiometry, TROCA (tangible reinforcement operant conditioning audiometry), and other advanced testing techniques such as auditory brainstem response audiometry
• Confers with family, clinical personnel, teachers, and other professional staff in the evaluation, treatment, and progression of client
• Directs and evaluates speech-language or audiology students
• Provides non-medical rehabilitation services to persons when appropriate, including: hearing aid selection, fitting and training procedures, use of auditory training equipment, application of audiometry training, speech reading, sign language training and counseling procedures, and preventative hearing conservation measures
• Uses appropriate treatment methods for receptive and expressive language disabilities, aural habilitation/rehabilitation, articulation and voice disorders, stuttering and development of alternative means of communication (e.g., language board, sign language, etc.)
• Uses equipment such as digital audio recorders, software/hardware