Clinical Speech Pathologist - Outpatient - Pediatric Feeding Team

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Job Title

Clinical Speech Pathologist - Outpatient - Pediatric Feeding Team

Location

Cleveland

Facility

Childrens Hospital Rehabilitation

Department

Feeding Program-Children's Institute

Job Code

D23021

Shift

Days

Schedule

8:30am-6:00pm

Job Summary

Job Details

Join Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital for Rehabilitation, where you will work alongside passionate caregivers and provide patient-first healthcare. Cleveland Clinic is recognized as one of the top hospitals in the nation. At Cleveland Clinic, you will work alongside passionate and dedicated caregivers, receive endless support and appreciation, and build a rewarding career with one of the most respected healthcare organizations in the world.

As a Speech Pathologist, you will perform diagnostic speech pathology test procedures and evaluate communication and swallowing function of patients. This includes interpreting and reporting test results to facilitate medical diagnosis, providing counseling and education about communication and the diagnosis to patients and their families, and determining therapeutic plans, including the need for therapy, frequency of treatment, focus for intervention, prognosis and duration of therapy.

A caregiver in this role works full-time from 8:00am to 6:00pm.

A caregiver who excels in this role will:

• Select assistive speech devices to improve patient's communication.
• Perform re-evaluation to determine progress after therapy.
• Provide observations about hearing and other behavior to help determine the need for other services.
• Maintain records of all services.
• Communicate results and recommendations for improving communicative function to referral sources and outside agencies such schools and employers.
• Maintain speech pathology equipment and materials.
• Assist with planning, budget, service or project development, fee setting, purchase of new equipment or materials.

Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

• Master’s degree in speech/language pathology
• Hold or be eligible for a Speech-Language Pathology License (SP) from the State Board of Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology (Must hold (SP) license in current state upon start date)
• Hold Certification of Clinical Competence (CCC-SLP) from the American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA)
• Completed nine-month Clinical Fellowship Year

Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:

• 5 or more years of prior pediatric feeding experience
• Prior behavioral feeding experience

Physical Requirements

• Ability to stand for long periods of time.
• Manual dexterity and visual acuity sufficient to perform tests.

Personal Protective Equipment

• Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required.

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