• Speech Pathologist PRN Plus

    Saint Luke's (Smithville, MO)


    Job Description​

    Job Description

    Exciting opportunity available at Saint Luke's Hospital -Smithville for a Speech Pathologist PRN Plus. This role focuses on delivering exceptional patient care while ensuring clear, concise, and timely documentation. Collaboration with various disciplines is essential, along with effective communication with patients, families, peers, and physicians.

    Responsibilities include:

    - Working with Social Work/Care Coordination in discharge planning and family training.

     

    - Conducting bedside swallow evaluations, cognitive evaluations, MBSS evaluations, and swallow therapy.

    Shift details:

    - Shifts typically run from 8:00 am to 4:30 pm.

     

    - Holiday rotation and weekend requirements are included.

    Key responsibilities:

    - Provide services to clients with speech, language, cognitive-communication, and oral-pharyngeal sensorimotor impairments.

     

    - Develop individualized treatment plans based on evidence-based practices.

     

    - Conduct evaluations post-impairment, injury, or disease.

     

    - Monitor patient progress, contribute to discharge planning, and supervise treatment provided by students and assistants.

     

    - Collaborate with the interdisciplinary healthcare team to optimize client care.

     

    - Ensure safety for all individuals involved.

     

    - Document all services accurately and adhere to professional standards.

     

    - Engage in quality initiatives and meet shift requirements.

    Job Requirements

    Applicable Experience:

    Less than 1 year

     

    Basic Life Support - American Heart Association or Red Cross, Cert Clinical Competence-Speech/Lang - American Speech Language Hearing Association, Speech Pathology - Various

     

    Bachelor's Degree

    Job Details

    PRN

    Day (United States of America)

     

    _The best place to get care. The best place to give care_** **. Saint Luke’s 12,000 employees strive toward that vision every day. Our employees are proud to work for the only faith-based, nonprofit, locally owned health system in Kansas City. Joining Saint Luke’s means joining a team of exceptional professionals who strive for excellence in patient care. Do the best work of your career within a highly diverse and inclusive workspace where all voices matter.

     

    Join the Kansas City region's premiere provider of health services. Equal Opportunity Employer.