As a Speech Therapist Clinical Fellow at Powerback, you will complete a supervised clinical fellowship to develop and provide personalized speech-language pathology services to patients across various care settings. Responsibilities include assessing, diagnosing, and treating communication and swallowing disorders while collaborating with the rehabilitation team to optimize patient outcomes. The role involves adherence to licensure requirements, ongoing documentation, and participation in professional development and patient-centered care initiatives.
Overview:At Powerback, we're on a mission to improve lives. As the leader in physical, occupational, speech, and respiratory therapies, we help older adults stay active and thrive while providing essential therapy for children at home and in school.
With over 38 years of trusted service, our reach spans skilled nursing centers, assisted and independent living facilities, outpatient clinics, and home-based care. We're proud to deliver personalized care exactly where and when it's needed most.
Join an industry-leading team that restores hope and makes a lasting impact. If you're passionate about making a meaningful difference and want to be part of the future of rehabilitation and wellness, Powerback is the place for you.
Why Powerback?
1. SLP-CF must complete a minimum of 36 weeks (for full time employment) Clinical Fellowship while being supervised and mentored by a licensed, ASHA certified SLP.
2. SLP-CF must complete all requirements for provisional licensure, if applicable to the state, and practice in accordance to state licensure requirements and professional standards for the duration of the provisional license and Clinical Fellowship. If no provisional licensure in the state, must meet the supervision requirements set forth by CMS for patients with Medicare for the duration of the Clinical Fellowship.
3. Communicates status of Clinical Fellowship and licensure to direct supervisor and Director of Rehab in a timely manner. This includes status of necessary requirements, completion of required documentation for Clinical Fellowship, and completion of licensure documentation and application as well as receipt of CCC and permanent license.
4. SLP-CF will not be eligible to provide supervision to students during the Clinical Fellowship.
5. Meets productivity standards for the rehab gym, or as directed by the Director of Rehab/Clinical Operations Area Director.
6. Attends and contributes to patient care, staffing conferences and other related meetings.
7. Makes referrals to other disciplines, agencies in order to address the comprehensive needs of the patient.
8. Consults with other members of the rehabilitation team to select the most appropriate therapeutic regimen consistent with the needs and capabilities of each patient.
9. Adapts program and/or plan of care according to the needs of the individual patient.
10. Promotes a safe environment and enforces the elimination of fire and safety hazards.
11. Orders supplies and equipment as necessary.
12. Cleans, maintains, identifies, and reports the need for repair of equipment, as necessary.
13. Puts Patient Service first, ensuring that residents and families receive the highest quality of service in a caring and compassionate atmosphere which recognizes the individual's needs and rights.
14. Screens, examines and evaluates patients, including history, systems review, and application of appropriate tests and measures, synthesis information and interprets examination findings in order to establish a diagnosis, identify impairments, determine the predicted level of improvement and the time required to achieve it, identify precautions/contraindications and design and plan of care. Develops appropriate treatment goals and methods in collaboration with the patient and caregivers, implements the speech language pathology treatment plan, and completes all related documentation and record keeping regarding these services. Services include but are not limited to application of therapeutic techniques in areas such as:
*cognitive-communication
*speech intelligibility
*oral motor skills
*swallowing disorders/dysphagia
*perceptual abilities
*orientation
*memory
*pragmatics
*psychosocial expression
*functional communication
15. Coordinates the acquisition of adaptive communication devices and instructs patients in their use.
16. Facilitates identification of hearing deficits and appropriately refers for assessment, diagnosis rehabilitation and/or personal amplification.
17. Selects appropriate activities suited to the individual's physical and mental capacity, intelligence level and interest.
18. Instructs patient in the skills and techniques required for participation in therapeutic activities, and evaluates patient progress, attitudes and behavior as related to rehabilitative potential.
19. Performs routine reexamination as needed/required to modify/progress plan of treatment.
20. Performs other related duties as required.
Qualifications:
1. They must possess a master's degree in Speech-Language Pathology, Communication Disorders, Communicative Disorders or similarly titled area that is consistent and acceptable to the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
2. The Speech Language Pathologist must be licensed, certified or credentialed, as required in the state of practice.
speech therapy, clinical fellowship, communication disorders, swallowing disorders, patient rehabilitation, speech-language pathology, licensed SLP, therapeutic techniques, healthcare services, continuing education
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