The Tooele office is looking to hire a Speech Therapist who is responsible for helping people communicate and swallow appropriately. Their duties include assessing patients, diagnosing disorders than can impact swallowing and speaking and providing treatment for their patients.
Compensation: $65 - $95 per visit
Responsibilities:
- Evaluating levels of swallowing, speech and language difficulty
- Identifying treatment options
- Creating and carrying out individualized treatment plans addressing specific functional needs
- Teaching patients how to make sounds while improving their voices and maintaining fluency
- Helping individuals improve sentence structure and vocabulary used in written and oral language
- Working with adults and children in developing and strengthening muscles used to swallow
- Counseling individuals and families on ways to cope with swallowing and communication disorders
Skills:
- Analytical skills for selecting the best diagnostic tools and analyzing results to identify an accurate diagnosis while developing an effective treatment plan.
- Communication skills for communicating diagnoses, test results and available treatments in terms that clients and their families can understand.
- Compassion when working with individuals frustrated by the difficulties they are experiencing.
- Critical thinking skills for adjusting treatment plans as required and identifying alternative ways to help.
- Attention to detail for maintaining notes on treatment and progress.
- Listening skills for listening to concerns and symptoms of clients so they can decide the most appropriate course of treatment.
Requirements:
- Valid Speech Language Pathologist License
- Valid CPR Certification
- Valid State Driver's License
Community Nursing Services makes that preference a reality for our patients every day. For over 90 years CNS has provided patients in Utah with the best possible home health services. As our mission statements says: We create exceptional moments and experiences that heal individuals and families by providing compassionate care, and by putting health, dignity, comfort, and well-being first. We are a non-profit organization and it is our privilege to serve you and the communities in which we live.
*Please note that this Job Summary and Essential Duties and Responsibilities as outlined are the general nature and level of work to be performed. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of the employee.
*Please note that some benefits may only be available to full-time employees and/or certain employee classifications. Candidates must be able to pass a drug test and criminal background check. Interested applicants may apply in person or by replying to this ad.
EOE - We are committed to ensure fair and equal treatment for everyone we employ and are a proud Equal Opportunity Employer.
Pay: $65.00 - $95.00 per hour
Expected hours: 4 – 20 per week
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Commuter assistance
- Continuing education credits
- Dental insurance
- Disability insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible schedule
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- License reimbursement
- Life insurance
- Mileage reimbursement
- Opportunities for advancement
- Paid time off
- Professional development assistance
- Referral program
- Retirement plan
- Travel reimbursement
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance
- Work from home
Medical specialties:
Schedule:
- Choose your own hours
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- Weekends as needed
Work setting:
Ability to Relocate:
- Tooele, UT: Relocate before starting work (Required)
Work Location: In person