Job Description and Responsibilities

Willow Valley Communities, NOT a For-Profit Therapy Company that has a wonderful culture and beautiful surroundings is looking for a Clinical Fellowship Speech Therapist to join our Speech Therapy Team to assist in the treatment of both inpatient and outpatient Willow Valley Communities Residents, with focuses on swallowing, speech-language and cognition/memory cases across both campuses. 

Opportunities with WVC:

• In-House Therapy

• Continued career growth and education opportunities, such as extensive dementia training by our very own Memory Care Educator

• Excellent benefits package, including medical, dental and vision

• Use of our amenities, such as our fitness center, spa, cafes and swimming pools

• Plus many more

Wage:

• $30/hr
• Rate will increase once Clinical Fellowship is completed

Responsibilities:

• Models exemplary customer service and models care, compassion and trust toward Team Members and Residents.
• Diagnoses and evaluates speech and language skills, cognitive, and swallowing skills as related to medical, social, and psychological factors.
• Reviews Physician's referral (prescription), patient's condition and medical records to determine speech/dysphagia therapy treatment required.
• Provides counseling, guidance and language development therapy to disabled individuals, caregivers and family.
• Reviews individual chart to obtain background information prior to evaluation in order to determine appropriate tests and to ensure that adequate information is available.
• Administers, scores and interprets assessments for speech, language, cognition.
• Tests and measures patient's swallowing function. 
• Plans and prepares written plans of treatment based on evaluation data to restore swallowing, communication, and cognitive function.
• Observes, reports, and records treatments, responses, and progress in patient's chart.
• Reviews treatment plan, and assesses individual performance to modify, change, or write new programs. 
• Instructs individuals and/or caregivers to monitor their own speech and swallowing, and provides ways to practice new skills.
• Attends care plan meetings as appropriate for interdisciplinary team updates.
• Conducts in-services to staff in speech therapy techniques and objectives. 
• Confers with Physician and other practitioners to obtain additional patient information, suggest revisions in treatment program, and integrate occupational therapy treatment with other aspects of patient's health care.
• Ability to work with other therapists, nursing staff, patients, and caregivers in coordinating patient care to optimize outcomes.
• Requisitions supplies and equipment.
• Acts as consultant to medical and other professional groups.
• Attends meetings, seminars and participates in other activities to promote professional growth.
• Ability to work with other therapists, nursing staff, patients, and caregivers in coordinating patient care to optimize outcomes.
• Demonstrates good organizational, time management, and planning skills.
• Demonstrates good working knowledge of Prospective Payment Systems (PPS), Minimum Data Set (MDS), Medicare Part B, and other applicable reimbursement systems.
• Adheres to all applicable federal, state and local standards of care and the ethics and policies concerned with the practice of speech therapy.
• Completes timely clinical documentation to include functional goal-setting, programming and therapeutic approach.
• Completes billing/administrative documentation timely and accurately.
• Completes Resident screens in conjunction with annual MDS schedule and in response to nursing reports/referrals. 
• Clinical Fellowship Team Member must have all documentation checked and cosigned by a licensed Speech Therapist.

Qualifications:

• Provisional License is required.
• Computer literacy is required.

Hours:

• 40 hours/week

Schedule:

• Monday-Friday 8:00am-4:30pm
• Occasional weekends

Work Location:

• The Cultural Center of Willow Valley Communities
• 900 Willow Valley Lakes Drive, Willow Street, PA 17584

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