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Northbrook Center for Rehabilitation and Healing

Speech Language Pathologist (SLP)

Northbrook Center for Rehabilitation and Healing, Brooksville, Florida, United States, 34601


Northbrook Center for Rehabilitation Healing is a 120-bed Skilled Nursing Facility, located in the heart of Brooksville, FL. Our facility specializes in short-term rehabilitation and long-term care. Our beautiful facility offers residents the ability to rest, recover, and return to their daily living, in a distinctly homey environment. We’ve garnered an outstanding reputation in the communities we serve, providing exceptional quality care, with specializations in sub-acute orthopedic, cardiac, pulmonary and neurological rehabilitation. The highly trained staff at Northbrook Center for Rehabilitation Healing is available to assist in accessing community-based services to maintain the continuum of care.

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We are located at 575 Lamar Ave, Brooksville, FL 34601

Why Work For Us? Because We Offer Our Employees:

* Wonderschool- a free concierge service that helps our full time employees discover and sign up for quality child care programs nearby!.* Competitive rates* Daily Pay- Work Today Get Paid Today!* Health Insurance* Dental Insurance* Vision Insurance* Paid Time Off* Holiday Pay* 401k* Direct Deposit* Development of Deep Personal Relationships with Patients and their Families

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Speech Language Pathologist ( SLP ) / Speech Therapist Job Summary:

The purpose of the Speech Language Pathologist ( SLP ) position is to provide diagnostic and therapeutic services to evaluate, treat, document and /or facilitate care for residents with impaired ability to swallow or communicate due to disease process; participate in the interdisciplinary team meetings as required; assist the Director of Nursing to develop communication and/or swallowing decline prevention policies and procedures.

Speech Language Pathologist ( SLP ) Major Duties and Critical Tasks.

Evaluate resident’s functional needs when referred by the resident’s attending physician or interdisciplinary team.

Follow physician’s orders, facility policies and procedures to evaluate and treat residents and complete required documentation for care provided.

Assist the DON in establishing communication and/or swallowing decline prevention policies and procedures.

Participate in discharge planning when appropriate.

Perform diagnostic tests, evaluate and document evaluations of referred residence in accordance with facility policies and procedures.

Provide appropriate treatment to help resident maintain or attain the highest level of communication and/or swallowing function possible within the confines of his/her physical abilities.

Recommend and/or provide appropriate treatment, preventative measures, and assistive devices to prevent decline in resident’s function.

Provide appropriate resident or caregiver education to help residents maintain or attain the highest level of communication and/or swallowing function possible within the confines of his/her physical abilities.

Maintain timely and accurate resident reports as required by federal, state and local regulatory agencies and third-party payers.

Perform all duties as assigned in an effective timely and professional manner.

Speech Language Pathologist ( SLP )Required Education and Experience:

A current license as a Speech Language Pathologist in the state of practice.

Possess a certificate of clinical competence in speech from the American Speech and Hearing Association, or;

Have the equivalent educational requirements, as indicated by school transcript or diploma and work experience necessary for such a certificate and be awaiting the opportunity to take the American Speech-Language Hearing association examination for certification, or;

Have completed the necessary work and education requirements as indicated by school transcript or diploma and be in the process of accumulating the necessary supervised work experience required for certification.

Solid computer skills: prior experience with electronic medical records (EMR) preferred.: