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Company: Blount Memorial Hospital
Location: Maryville, TN
Career Level: Entry Level
Industries: Recruitment Agency, Staffing, Job Board

Description

  • PEDIATRIC SPEECH PATHOLOGIST JOB SUMMARY
    • A Speech Pathologist Evaluates, plans, implements, and directs individualized speech therapy programs. Documents status and progress of patients. Provides patient, staff, and family education. Participates on multidisciplinary teams to correlate comprehensive patient care processes. Provides speech therapy care for infants, pediatrics, adolescents, adults, and geriatrics based on knowledge of basic growth and development. Interacts with patients and staff in a professional manner; evaluates and treats patients with various neurological and muscular dysfunctions.
    • Outpatient clinicians are not required to work in the inpatient rehabilitation setting and will therefore not be required to complete a respirator mask fit test. If the employee does work in the inpatient setting a respirator mask fit test will be required.

  • PEDIATRIC SPEECH PATHOLOGIST JOB SPECIFICATIONS
    • Education and/or experience: Require current Speech Language Pathologist license in
      State of Tennessee by the Division of Health Related Boards, and Certificate of Clinical
      Competence by ASHA. Recommend membership in American Speech and Hearing
      Association. CPR required.

      Knowledge: Human anatomy, physiology, medical terminology, indications and
      contraindications for interventions, English language, human behavior and performance,
      principles, methods and procedures for diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of physical and
      mental dysfunctions.

      Skills: Ability to detect differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness. Active
      listening to what others are saying. Effective speaking to others to convey information. Logic
      and reasoning to identify most effective solutions and for appropriate clinical decision making.
      Written communication which effectively and thoroughly conveys treatments and plans to
      others.

      Abilities: Identify and understand speech of another person, and speak clearly to others so
      they can understand. Apply general rules to specific problems to produce solutions to
      problems.



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