Speech Language Pathologist - Long Term Care & Rehabilitation
Saint Joseph, MO
GHR Healthcare - PH Division
5x8 hrs

Job Opportunity: Temporary Speech and Language Pathologist (SLP)

Location: Saint Joseph, Missouri
Employment Type: Temporary
Contract Length: 13 weeks

Job Description

• Develop treatment plans to improve swallowing, cognitive, and communication abilities, and to decrease aspirations.
• Create communication treatment plans to help individuals better understand and be understood by others.
• Lead, guide, and direct the delivery of speech language pathology services in accordance with local, state, and federal regulations and facility policies.
• Work primarily in a skilled nursing and post-acute rehabilitation setting with a variety of cognitive, dietary, and neurological diagnoses.
• Serve both short-term rehab patients and long-term care residents.
• Collaborate closely with nursing, therapy, and medical teams.
• Dress code: Scrubs

Required Qualifications

• Valid, unrestricted Missouri SLP license.
• Minimum 1 year of Speech and Language Pathology experience.
• Experience in Long Term Care (LTC) or Rehabilitation settings required.
• Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC) in Speech-Language Pathology required.
• Valid driver’s license.
• Knowledge of skilled nursing home regulations, procedures, laws, and guidelines related to long-term care.

Additional Information

• Facility includes a spacious gym, functional ADL spaces, and outdoor therapy areas.
• Supportive, high-energy therapy and nursing teams.
• Focus on providing effective therapy to help patients return home.

Prior Travel Experience

• Not explicitly required.