Speech Language Pathologist SLP Home Health PRN
- Ocala, FL
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Provides speech therapy in compliance with physician’s prescription, patient’s plan of care, agency policies and procedures and federal and state regulations.
- Performs initial and ongoing assessments, including OASIS assessments at appropriate time points, to identify the client’s level of functioning, swallowing and communication ability.
- Develops a plan of care in consultation with the physician and other care team members.
- Instructs patient and families on proper consistency of food to maintain nutritional intake and prevent complications of swallowing disorders.
- Instructs patients and families on using special educational strategies and techniques to improve sensory-motor development, perception, memory, language and cognition.
- Graduate of an approved/accredited college program that meets the educational requirements for a Certificate of Clinical Competence in speech pathology or audiology granted by the American Speech and Hearing Association; or enrolled in a program that meets the educational requirements for certification and in the process of accumulating the supervised experience required for certification.
- Licensure as a speech pathologist in the respective state.
- One (1) year home health care experience preferred.