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US
Company size
11-50 employees
Job sector
Health Science
occupation category
Speech-Language Pathologists
Job type
Contract
Work environment
In person
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- Formulates conclusions regarding the client’s diagnosis, abilities, resources and needs
- Incorporates support personnel in clinical care to meet the clinical objectives, as appropriate to the clinical activity and jurisdiction
- Collects and reviews information from relevant sources (e.g., referrals, reports, consultation) to determine an individual’s need for a speech-language pathology assessment.
- Determines the capabilities of support personnel
- Ensures documentation includes a statement of identifying information, screening results, and recommendations, indicating the need for rescreening, assessment, or referral
- Determines the resources and timelines required for the intervention
- Ensures the safety of the patient/client and clinician and adhere to universal health precautions (e.g., prevention of bodily injury and transmission of infectious disease)
- Completes and disseminates documentation in a timely manner
- Uses technology to maintain accurate and useful records, such as evaluation reports, IEPs, screening documentation, and progress reports
- Measures and records the client’s response to intervention
- Adheres to all prescribed laws and district policies regarding record keeping
- Applies basic knowledge from relevant fields that apply to communication and feeding and swallowing across the lifespan
- Monitors, adapts and/or redesigns an intervention plan based on the client’s responses and needs.
- Organizes the environment for an optimal interaction
- Provides the client and family or significant others with education, support, training and counselling, relating to communication, feeding or swallowing
- Conducts the intervention, modifying as appropriate
- Documents informed consent
- Provides a re-assessment as appropriate
- Manages misunderstandings, limitations and conflicts to enhance collaborative practice
- Maintains other records specified by the Special Education Department (e.g. ACESS billing)
- Facilitates transfer of care within and across professions
- Identifies and recommends alternative services for a client whose needs are beyond the professional limitations of the speech-language pathologist.
- Establishes and prioritizes long-term intervention goals that reflect the client’s strengths, needs, values, expectations and constraints
- Obtains patient consent, certifying medical records, and deciding what information can be released
- Manages and promotes screening programs (e.g., infant, school-aged, feeding and swallowing) to identify individuals requiring speech-language pathology services
- Plans the assessment, including the appropriate tools, strategies and resources that will address the unique needs of the client
- Complies with regulatory and legislative requirements related to documentation
- Decontaminates, cleans, disinfections, and sterilizes multiple-use equipment before reuse are carried out according to facility-specific infection control policies and procedures and according to manufacturer's instructions
- Ensures equipment, materials, instruments, and devices are regularly calibrated, up to date and in good working condition, according to the required standards.
- Ensures all equipment is used and maintained in accordance with manufacturer's specifications
- Uses the appropriate modalities, materials and technologies in the provision of service
- Develops specific, measurable, realistic, time-limited, short-term goals to reach the long-term intervention goals
- Discusses the assessment results, recommendations and implications with the client and other relevant individuals, as permitted by client and other pertinent regulations and protocol
- Provides appropriate feedback and modelling to the client
- Ensures the privacy and security of documentation are maintained in compliance with the regulations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and other state and federal laws
- Facilitates the integration of support personnel into the service model or employment context in a manner that is appropriate to their scope of practice
- Advocates for necessary services and resources that support an individual client
- Communicates respectfully and effectively using appropriate modalities
- Communicates one's professional roles, responsibilities and scope of practice in collaborative interactions with the client, caregivers and relevant professionals Recognizes and respects the roles and perspectives of other individuals
- Collects and analyzes pertinent information prior to the assessment, including: case history, previous reports and the client’s perspectives
- Refers to other health care or educational professionals as required
- Develops outcome measures that align with the client’s long-term goals
- Applies knowledge of feeding and swallowing development and disorders to clinical practice
- Reports results of screening to the individual and family/caregivers, as appropriate. Ensures reports are distributed to referral source and other professionals when appropriate and with written consent
- Addresses problems in one's clinical setting that are related to provincial or national accessibility standards for providing services to the public
- Actively listens to and observe all components of communication and/or feeding and swallowing
- Develops evidence-informed recommendations, including potential referrals to other professionals, based on the assessment findings
- Communicates development and disorders to clinical practice
- Conducts a valid, accurate and reliable assessment, modifying as necessary
- Interacts with all team members
- Accurately document services provided and their outcomes
- Provides tasks to support personnel based on their competencies
- Provides the necessary training of support personnel
- Manages therapy procedures
- Uses evidence and clinical reasoning to guide professional decisions
- Administers standard hearing screening protocols to clients
- Applies knowledge of auditory function, hearing loss and disorders of the auditory system to the service provided to clients, where applicable including speech sound production, fluency and fluency disorders, voice and resonance, receptive and expressive language, including phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics (language use and social aspects of communication), prelinguistic communication, paralinguistic communication, cognitive aspects of communication, social aspects of communication and hearing, including the impact on speech and language
- Identifies opportunities to improve practice models within workplace settings. v. Participates in or leads quality improvement initiatives
- Monitors and review the performance of support personnel
- Applies knowledge of prevention, assessment and intervention processes to clinical practice
- Augmentative and alternative communication modalities
- Develops an evidence-informed intervention plan with direct and/or indirect service delivery, as appropriate, to target the short-term goal
- Analyzes and interprets assessment results
