Summary Job Description: The Speech Pathology Department provides evaluation and therapeutic services for patients with speech, language, cognitive, voice, and swallowing disorders. The department works collaboratively with interdisciplinary care teams to deliver evidence-based, patient-centered interventions that support communication, safety, and overall quality of life across the continuum of care. Speech-Language Pathologist PRN, Days The Speech-Language Pathologist II (SLP) is responsible for identifying, assessing, and treating patients with cognitive communication and/or swallowing disorders. The SLP also provides counseling/ education to patients, caregivers, and staff regarding cognitive-communication and/ or swallowing disorders. Job Description: Conduct comprehensive diagnostic evaluations for adults who exhibit cognitive-communication disorders and for neonates, infants, pediatrics, and adults who exhibit feeding/ swallowing disorders. These assessments incorporate both formal and informal test procedures. Diagnostic conclusions and recommendations are based upon test results, clinical observations, background/ history, and information from other specialist, patients, and caregivers. Develop appropriate treatment plans and bases treatment methods and procedures on a definitive rationale, as an ongoing process, adapting to meet the patient’s needs. Counsel patients and caregivers regarding the cognitive-communicative/ swallow disorder. Discuss progress and recommends follow-up services and/ or provides instruction for carry-over and/ or home programs, with patient’s and caregivers upon discharge. Communicate patient care needs, progress, and plans with the treatment team members to support the interdisciplinary team model for optimal treatment outcomes. Support collaborative and multidisciplinary research; applies research findings to practice and encourages, participates in, and promotes research activities that establish the outcomes of patient-management. Requirements: Masters Degree-Speech Language Pathology Certification of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language Pathology (CCC-SLP) Must be obtained within 9 months for fulltime employees and 18 months for part-time employees. Current and valid license to practice Speech-Language Pathology in the state of Kentucky Maintain Certification of Clinical Competence from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Must obtain BLS within 30 days Benefits: PRN (As Needed) Preventive Plan Retirement Plans If you would like to be part of a growing family focused on supporting clinical excellence, teamwork and innovation, we urge you to apply now! Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics. Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama. Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence. Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has more than 1,820 employed providers offering care in 78 specialties, including approximately 862 physicians and 958 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians. EEO Statement: Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and seeks to employ individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, religious or political beliefs, protected veteran status, employment status or any other protected class identified in any federal, state, or local law. Baptist Health specifically encourages minority, female, disabled, veteran and other candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply and strengthen our team. Please note that Baptist Health is a drug-free workplace and employment with Baptist Health is subject to post offer, pre-employment drug testing. NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMATION AND ACCESSIBILITY TO SERVICES Persons with hearing and speech impairments can contact Baptist Health facilities by using the Kentucky Relay Service, a toll-free telecommunication device for the deaf (TDD). For voice to TDD, call 800.648.6057. 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