• Job Description

  Req#: 25018791

  Home Health Speech Language Pathologist– AdventHealth Home Health

  All the benefits and perks you need for you and your family:

  • Benefits from Day One
  • Paid Days Off from Day One
  • Career Development
  • Whole Person Wellbeing Resources
  • Mental Health Resources and Support

  Our promise to you:

  Joining AdventHealth is about being part of something bigger. It’s about belonging to a community that believes in the wholeness of each person, and serves to uplift others in body, mind and spirit. AdventHealth is a place where you can thrive professionally, and grow spiritually, by Extending the Healing Ministry of Christ. Where you will be valued for who you are and the unique experiences you bring to our purpose-minded team. All while understanding that together we are even better.

  Schedule: Full Time

  Shift : Day

  Location: Travel within South Orange County, Kissimmee, St. Cloud, Osceola County, Downtown Orlando, Pine Hills, West Orlando, Ocoee, Winter Garden, Windemere

  The role you’ll contribute:

  The Home Health ST Case Manager is a professional therapist who coordinates and directs the home care patient's care based on individual patient needs. Case Manager is responsible for independent management of the Home Health patient population requiring the use of advanced assessment, teaching and decision-making skills. The therapist is responsible for ensuring that appropriate referrals to other services are made, interdisciplinary conferencing takes place regularly, and appropriate documentation is completed. Relevant knowledge and experience is consistently applied to new patient populations. The Case Manager cares for a caseload of home health patients by evaluating the patient for appropriateness of home health and developing the home care plan in conjunction with the physician. S/he educates patients, families, caregivers and community providers to safely perform care. S/he provides follow up by evaluating effectiveness of the home care plan, and monitoring patient/family's response to the plan to achieve patient/family goals and top decile outcomes. The Case Manager also identifies performance improvement and home health standard of care initiatives and assists to design or implement programs to address needed changes.

  The value you’ll bring to the team:

  • Performs an evaluation and utilizes the findings to determine diagnosis (for SLP services), prognosis and plan of care in consultation with the physician. Determines specific interventions, duration and frequency needed to achieve anticipated goals and outcomes.
  • Observes and records activities and findings in the clinical record and reports to the physician and or primary Case Manager the patient’s reaction to treatment and any changes in patient’s condition, or when there are deviations from the plan of care.
  • Instructs the patient and caregiver regarding the patient’s speech language improvement program including adaptive equipment and the home program.
  • Instructs other health team personnel including, when appropriate, home health aides and caregivers in certain phases of speech therapy with which they may work with the patient.
  • Selects, applies or modifies skilled intervention to the patient using various skilled interventions consistent with the state practice act to achieve the best outcome possible for the patient. Assesses patient response to interventions and performs reassessments as required.

  The expertise and experiences you’ll need to succeed:

  Minimum qualifications:

  • Master's Degree in Speech Therapy
  • 1+ year relevant clinical Speech therapy experience
  • Current Speech Therapy License in State of Practice
  • Active American Heart Association BLS
  • Valid in state Driver’s License with current car insurance

  Preferred qualifications:

  • Acute care, inpatient rehab/or home health experience.
  • Recent, relevant experience in a Medicare-certified home health agency as a case-manager
  • Adult/Geriatric care with focus on language.
  • Home Health Case-Manager Certification

• About the company

  AdventHealth is a Seventh-day Adventist non-profit health care system headquartered in Altamonte Springs, Florida, that operates facilities in 9 states across the United States.

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