Job Overview

Employment Type:

Full time

Shift:

Day Shift

Description:

SCOPE OF SERVICE/CUSTOMER:

Plans, administers, implements, and evaluates speech therapy for all appropriate programs and services within the PM & R Department, for all patient age groups. Possesses the skills necessary to provide direct patient care specific to each age group in accordance with department protocol. The age of the patients served range in age from infants to geriatrics.

Customers include: patients, family/visitors, co-workers, physicians and their office staff, social
services, dietary/nutrition vendors/volunteers, outside agencies, students and all Mercy Medical Center employees assisting the department in the delivery of patient care, i.e. nursing, etc.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
1. Completes Patient Evaluations/Treatment:
 Utilizes appropriate evaluation tools for diagnosis.
 Identifies goals with patient.
 Follows physician orders/seeks changes in orders when appropriate.
 Consistently performs tasks and procedures safely, correctly and effectively to achieve optimal patient outcomes.
 Completes appropriate paperwork.
 Timely completion.
2. Gives direction to Support Staff:
 Follows guidelines of practice acts and Medicare.
 Coordinates treatments with staff and communicates expectations of team.
3. Documentation:
 Completed on day of service.
 Documentation matches charges.
 Documentation addresses goals and progress of patient.
 Identifies skilled need and medical necessity.
 Includes total treatment time and documentation necessary for regulatory guidelines and reimbursement.

4. Recertifications:
 Completed timely.
 Follows state and regulatory guidelines.
5. Charges:
 Follows state and regulatory guidelines.
 Demonstrates knowledge in state and regulatory guidelines.
 Documentation supports submitted charges.
 Completed on day of service.
6. Professionalism:
 Demonstrates and conducts self according to Code of Ethics.
 Supportive of Mercy’s mission and values.
 Provides constructive suggestions and input to department needs.
 Provides leadership for support staff.
 Attends educational seminars and expands knowledge.
 Maintains licensure.
7. Communicates with staff:
 Utilizes voicemail and email to streamline process.
 Efficiently directs calls to appropriate person.
 Provides information appropriate for persons involved (need to know basis).
 Contributes to positive work environment.
8. Interpersonal skills:
 Positive interaction with staff members.
 Transfer of information to other staff members in timely, appropriate manner.
 Plans day-to-day activities and communicates to others.
 Works as a team for the betterment of department.
 Provides others with information needed to complete job.
9. Organization:
 Keeps area organized and communicates changes to others.
 Able to multitask and follow through with assigned duties.
 Prioritizes and delegates to others.
10. Computer:
 Proficient in Microsoft Office.
 Utilizes technology to decrease duplication of documents.
 Proficient in use of fax/email.
11. Performs other related duties as assigned.

SKILLS AND ABILITIES REQUIRED:
1. Must be able to function as a Speech therapist in all commonly practiced aspects of patient evaluation and treatment appropriate for assigned age group.
2. Must be able to give clear instructions to individuals and groups ranging from infant to geriatric.
3. Must be able to plan day-to-day activities and work independently.
4. Must be able to put patients at ease and make them comfortable.
5. Must possess strong interpersonal skills and demonstrate the ability to effectively work with other hospital employees and guests.
6. Must demonstrate the ability to interact with others in a helpful and courteous manner.
7. Must be competent in providing clinical care to the patient population described in the
department’s description of services section of the policy manual.
8. Demonstrates and promotes customer satisfaction.
WORKING CONDITIONS AND PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
1. Frequent (21-50% or work time) intense emotional interaction with clients is common.
2. Job requires (80% or more of work time) sitting.
3. Job requires (20% or more of work time) standing and walking.
4. Occasional (6-10% of work time) and sometimes unanticipated physical assistance is required, involving lifting, reaching, bending and stooping.
5. Job requires the ability to occasionally (6-10% of work time) lift and carry objects weighing approximately 35 lbs.
6. Occasional (6-10% of work time) contact with incontinent patients, patients with open wounds or disfiguring injuries.
7. Occasional (6 – 10% of work time) contact with people in severe pain.
8. Job functions require a high level of concentration, prioritization of tasks.
9. Must have fine motor skills to grasp.
10. Must be able to see at a near visual acuity level.
11. Must be able to have intelligible speech.
12. Must be able to hear speech and have speech discrimination skills.
MINIMUM EDUCATION, LICENSURE, CERTIFICATION, AND EXPERIENCE:
1. Master’s Degree in Speech Pathology from accredited program.
2. Certification by American Speech and Hearing Association or be eligible to be certified..
3. Certificate of Clinical Competency once fully licensed.
4. Licensure (or eligibility for licensure) by the State of Iowa to practice as a Speech Therapist. Employee may be within their Clinical Fellowship year if able to meet ASHA requirements for completion.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Trinity Health is a family of 115,000 colleagues and nearly 26,000 physicians and clinicians across 25 states. Because we serve diverse populations, our colleagues are trained to recognize the cultural beliefs, values, traditions, language preferences, and health practices of the communities that we serve and to apply that knowledge to produce positive health outcomes. We also recognize that each of us has a different way of thinking and perceiving our world and that these differences often lead to innovative solutions.

Our dedication to diversity includes a unified workforce (through training and education, recruitment, retention, and development), commitment and accountability, communication, community partnerships, and supplier diversity.