Job Description
Join Cleveland Clinic’s Lerner School for Autism as a Clinical Speech Pathologist and experience being part of a top hospital system, all while building an exceptional career. Our Lerner School for autism is state of-the-art and serves students from the earliest age of their diagnosis through 21. We offer full day year-round programs that focus on the development of our student’s communication, socialization, and academics.
We are looking for a Clinical Speech Pathologist to join our growing team. In this role, your duties will include but are not limited to:
-Performing diagnostic speech pathology tests and evaluation communication and swallowing function of our patients.
-Providing counseling and communication about the diagnosis to the patients and their families.
-Communicating results and recommendations to outside sources such as other schools and employers.
Our ideal candidate is someone who:
-Is compassionate and empathic.
-Enjoys working with children and young adults.
-Is dedicated and reliable.
-Is flexible and open to any feedback.
We provide extensive and continuous training for our team. You will also have the opportunity to work with and learn from our other caregivers including special educators, behavioral analysts, and occupational therapists in our collaborative and supportive environment.
Cleveland Clinic provides what matters most: career growth, delivering world-class care to our patients, continuous learning, exceptional benefits and working for an organization that offers many long-term career paths. Join us and experience a culture where opportunities to advance and the support to get there go hand-in-hand.
Preferred qualifications: ABA experience is preferred but not required
We are looking for a Clinical Speech Pathologist to join our growing team. In this role, your duties will include but are not limited to:
-Performing diagnostic speech pathology tests and evaluation communication and swallowing function of our patients.
-Providing counseling and communication about the diagnosis to the patients and their families.
-Communicating results and recommendations to outside sources such as other schools and employers.
Our ideal candidate is someone who:
-Is compassionate and empathic.
-Enjoys working with children and young adults.
-Is dedicated and reliable.
-Is flexible and open to any feedback.
We provide extensive and continuous training for our team. You will also have the opportunity to work with and learn from our other caregivers including special educators, behavioral analysts, and occupational therapists in our collaborative and supportive environment.
Cleveland Clinic provides what matters most: career growth, delivering world-class care to our patients, continuous learning, exceptional benefits and working for an organization that offers many long-term career paths. Join us and experience a culture where opportunities to advance and the support to get there go hand-in-hand.
Preferred qualifications: ABA experience is preferred but not required
Responsibilities:
- Performs diagnostic speech pathology test procedures and evaluates communication and swallowing function of patients.
- Interprets and reports test results to facilitate medical diagnosis.
- Provides counseling and education about communication and the diagnosis to patients and their families.
- Determines therapeutic plan, including need for therapy, frequency of treatment, focus for intervention, prognosis and duration of therapy.
- Selects assistive speech devices to improve patient's communication.
- Performs re-evaluation to determine progress after therapy.
- Provides observations about hearing and other behavior to help determine need for other services.
- Maintains records of all services.
- Communicates results and recommendations for improving communicative function to referral sources and outside agencies such schools and employers.
- Maintains speech pathology equipment and materials.
- Assists with planning, budget, service or project development, fee setting, purchase of new equipment or materials.
- Other duties as assigned
Education:
- Master's Degree in Speech/Language Pathology.
Certifications:
- Must hold or be eligible for a Speech-Language Pathology License (SP) from the State Board of Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology.
- Must hold (SP) license in current state upon start date.
- Holds Certification of Clinical Competence (CCC-SLP) from the American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA).
Complexity of Work:
- Within scope of job, requires critical thinking skills, decisive judgment and the ability to work with minimal supervision.
- Must be able to work in a stressful environment.
Experience:
- Experience working with individuals with autism
- ABA experience preferred
Physical Requirements:
- Ability to stand for long periods of time.
- Manual dexterity and visual acuity sufficient to perform tests.
Personal Protective Equipment:
- Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required.
Keywords: Speech Language Pathology, SLP, CCC-SLP
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