Speech Therapist - Palestine TX

Texas Health Institute; Palestine (TX); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Christus Home Care in Palestine, TX is hiring a full-time Speech Language Pathologist to join our compassionate home health team. You will assess and treat speech, language, swallowing, and cognitive disorders, and help design individualized treatment plans.

As part of the LHC Group family, you will work with care teams to improve patient well-being and communicate with families. This role emphasizes patient-centered care, documentation, and collaboration across disciplines.

Qualifications

• Provides speech therapy within state scope and plan of care.
• Assists in development of a therapy plan with the physician.
• Assesses speech and language needs to guide treatment.

Responsibilities

• Evaluates patient's functional level using diagnostic/prognostic tests and assists in developing the therapy plan.
• Treats patients to improve communication based on their condition and standards of practice.
• Observes, records and reports patient responses and changes in condition to the supervising clinician.
• Instructs the patient, family or caregiver in speech therapy techniques and how they can participate.

Job description

Christus Home Care is hiring for a full-time Speech Language Pathologist to join our passionate team in Palestine, TX!

Explore opportunities with Christus Homecare, a part of LHC Group, a leading post-acute care partner for hospitals, physicians and families nationwide. As members of the Optum family of businesses, we are dedicated to helping people feel their best, including our team members who create meaningful connections with patients, their families, each other and the communities we serve. Find a home for your career here. Join us and embrace a culture of Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

As the Speech Therapist in Home Health is responsible for the assessment and evaluation of patient care needs related to treating speech and language disorders, and functional training in communication, swallowing, and cognitive impairments. Based on this assessment and evaluation, the Speech Therapist works to help determine a treatment plan, performs interventions aimed at improving and enhancing the patient's well-being, and evaluates the patient's progress.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provides services within the scope of practice as defined by the state laws governing the practice of speech therapy, in accordance with the plan of care, and in coordination with other members of the health care team
• Evaluates the patient's level of function by applying diagnostic and prognostic functional ability tests. Assists the physician in the development of the therapy plan of care
• Treats patients to communicate effectively by expressing thoughts according to the patient's condition using acceptable standards of practice
• Observes, records, and reports to the supervising nurse and/or physician the patient's response to treatment and changes in the patient's condition
• Instructs the patient, the family and/or caregiver and other members of the health care team in areas of speech therapy in which they can participate

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Annual total cash compensation for this role assumes full-time employment (40 weekly hours) at full productivity and generally follows the range above. Total cash compensation includes earnings from per visit point pay and hourly pay and is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience and may increase over time based on productivity and performance in the role. This role receives two types of compensation depending on the work being performed. When conducting visits, you will be paid per visit point rate compensation. Your per visit pay will be calculated by multiplying your per visit point rate by the productivity points you accrue for various types of visits. Each type of visit is assigned a certain number of productivity points that is inclusive of "direct" and "indirect" patient care activities. Visits