PRNSpeech Therapist

LIMITED TIME PRN OPPORTUNITY AVAILABILE AT HOLY FAMILY - METHUEN.

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Job Summary: Performs patient evaluations in an accurate and timely manner.

• Demonstrates ability to appropriately select, administer, score and interpret formal and informal assessment tools.
• Demonstrates ability to develop, modify, and advance treatment programs that maximize the highest functional performance of each patient, in a creative, skillful and efficient manner, and in collaboration with other team members.
• Demonstrates care planning that simultaneously incorporates patient and family goals and preferences, physician requirements and financial issues and constraints.
• Appropriately address patient education needs including, but not limited to discharge planning, home exercise programs and equipment needs.
• Demonstrates ethical behavior as defined by profession, industry and/or organization.
• Demonstrates documentation that adheres to departmental, professional and regulatory standards and time frames with clinical, multi/interdisciplinary and payer mandated documentation and clinical care communication.
• Submits timely and accurate charges.
• Demonstrates compliance with policy, procedure and practice standards.
• Demonstrates responsibility for and the enhancement of clinical skills through in-services, literature review, self-study or other learning opportunities during the year.
• Knows and understands job responsibilities and takes charge of and accepts these responsibilities.
• Demonstrates ability to learn and apply new skill.
• Completes appropriate competencies for the hospital and department.
• Provides patient care based on evidence-based medicine.
• Demonstrates a thorough knowledge of patient right to confidentiality.
• Adjusts schedule as necessary in view of fluctuations in workload.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Masters Degree in Speech Language Pathology or equivalent from an ASHA accredited school.
• Current SLP license in Commonwealth of Massachusetts
• Current Certificate of Clinical Competency from the American Speech Language and Hearing Association.
• Current CPR certification.
• Proficiency in MBS and ICU experience preferred, minimum of one year acute care experience required.

Company Overview: Nearly a decade ago, Steward Health Care System emerged as a different kind of health care company designed to usher in a new era of wellness. One that provides our patients better, more proactive care at a sustainable cost, our providers unrivaled coordination of care, and our communities greater prosperity and stability.
As the country's largest physician-led, minority-owned, integrated health care system, our doctors can be certain that we share their interests and those of their patients. Together we are on a mission to revolutionize the way health care is delivered - creating healthier lives, thriving communities and a better world.
Steward is among the nation’s largest and most successful accountable care organizations (ACO), with more than 5,500 providers and 43,000 health care professionals who care for 12.3 million patients a year through a closely integrated network of hospitals, multispecialty medical groups, urgent care centers, skilled nursing facilities and behavioral health centers.
Based in Dallas, Steward currently operates 33 hospitals across Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas.