Home Health SLP

Home Health Speech Therapist / Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP)

 in Loudoun County, Virginia

Care for others—and yourself—in a therapy career designed for work-life balance! As a Home Health SLP for Interim HealthCare®, you’ll play a vital role in a patient’s restoration while enjoying the freedom and flexibility that comes from ordering your own schedule.

Our Home Health Speech-Language Pathologists enjoy some excellent benefits:

• Salary: $95 / hour
• 1:1 therapist-to-patient ratios where you impact outcomes
• Flexible assignments, autonomy and work-life balance
• Online training, growth and ability to earn CEUs
• Time & half pay on Sundays and holidays
• If the patient is more than 20 miles from the office we will pay $0.50 / mile for travel

As a Home Health Speech-Language Pathologist, here’s a big-picture view of what you’ll do:

•     Completes initial and ongoing comprehensive assessments at appropriate time points as assigned.
•    Selects and teaches task-oriented therapeutic activities designed to improve comprehension and production of language in oral, signed or written modalities; speech and voice production; auditory training; speech reading; and communication strategies using multi-modal training (e.g. visual, auditory-visual, and tactile).
•    Regularly assess changes in the patient’s status since the last visit/treatment day, and determine whether the planned services should be modified, performing a re-evaluation and obtaining revision orders from the physician as indicated.
•    Prepares and submits timely, legible, relevant and sufficient documentation of treatment and skilled intervention provided, as well appropriate reports of a patient’s progress toward goals.
•    Advises and consults with the family and/or other caregivers to promote patient progress and planning for discharge.
•    Participates in educating the patient and the family, and other caregivers to promote patient progress toward mutually established goals.
•    Actively effectively communicates with other members of the interdisciplinary healthcare team providing care in order to promote coordination of patient care and planning for discharge.
•    Visually and auditorially observes and assesses the patient.
•    Participates in quality and performance improvement measures

A few must-haves for Home Health Speech-Language Pathologists:

•  Master’s or doctoral degree in speech language pathology, and who meets either of the following requirements:
  a)    licensed as a speech-language pathologist by the State of Virginia
  b)    Has successfully completed 350 clock hours of supervised clinical practicum (or is in the process of accumulating such supervised clinical experience)
• Performed not less than 9 months of supervised full-time speech-language pathology services after obtaining a master’s or doctoral degree in speech-language pathology or a related field;
• Successfully completed an approved national examination in speech-language pathology.
  •    In the last five (5) years, two (2) years of experience as a speech language pathologist that is relevant to the patient population assigned.
  •    Provide proof of valid driver’s license, per organization-specific policy.
  •    Provide proof of valid auto liability insurance if assignment(s) includes driving own vehicle to transport patient, per organization-specific policy.
  •    Meets applicable state and federal health screening requirements.
  •    Pass federal and state required criminal and abuse background checks where required.
  •    Verification of employment eligibility (I-9) in accordance with local, state, and federal law and regulations.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Required:
•    Able to read and interpret technical instructions related to the care of the patient.
•    Able to provide proof of current CPR certification, per organization-specific policy.
•    Able to prioritize multiple functions or tasks to effectively manage multiple changes based on patient needs and scheduling.
•    Meets the applicable health requirements to provide patient care per applicable law or regulation.

Working Conditions & Physical Effort:
•    Work is normally performed in a residence, aggregate living facility, school or occupational setting.
•    Work environment involves occasional exposure to communicable diseases, blood borne pathogens and/or potentially infectious or hazardous materials and situations that require following extensive safety precautions and may include the use of protective equipment (e.g. face masks, goggles, latex or non-latex gloves).
•    Able to spend varying amounts of time sitting, standing and walking.
•    Able to stand, walk, bend, stoop, squat, kneel and reach freely.
•    Able to lift, reposition, and transfer patients.
•    Sufficient endurance to perform the required physical and mental tasks over long periods of time.
•    Able to constantly grasp with thumb in opposition to fingers of palm, i.e. manipulate pen, knobs or objects.
•    Visual acuity, dexterity and hearing to perform required skills.
•    Ability to work flexible schedule and/or evening hours as needed.
•    Physical activity is sedentary and may require occasional lifting, carrying, pushing or pulling up to 10 lbs.
•    Travel within geographic area serviced by office, if applicable.
•    Able to travel locally from assignment to assignment, if applicable.