Speech Therapist

Job Description

• Administers hearing or speech/language evaluations, tests, or examinations to patients to collect information on the type and degree of impairments, using written and oral tests and special instruments.
• Develops clear care plans based on best practice, patient findings and patient needs.
• Advises on aids and adaptations needed by the patient to promote independence.
• Evaluates hearing and speech/language test results and medical or background information to diagnose and plan treatment for speech, language, fluency, voice and swallowing disorders.
• Assesses, develops and implements Speech and Language Therapy treatment to the assigned patients.
• Participates in departmental and hospital quality improvement measurement, activities and goals.
• Assists in the development, implementation and monitoring of practice guidelines and policies related to the care of patients requiring rehabilitation services.
• Complies with standards, policies, laws and regulations as outlined in the hospital policies and plans.
• Evaluates information to determine compliance with standards and analyses data or information to improve or make decisions.
• Assists with the development of a speech/language therapy competency program and ongoing learning and education programs.
• Performs administrative activities, such as day-to-day maintenance of files and processing of paperwork.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks and participating in national and international professional societies.
• Reflects on auditory, visual and kinaesthetic aspects of the client's communication and identifies appropriate strategies to facilitate and enhance communicative effectiveness.
• Provides advice to others regarding the management and care of patients/clients with communication difficulties.
• Ensures that patients are involved in the planning and prioritization of their care plans wherever possible.
• Adapts practice to meet individual patient's circumstances, including due regard for cultural and linguistic differences.
• Uses of evidence-based practice and outcome measures for clinical effectiveness.
• Participates in departmental and hospital quality improvement measurement, activities and goals.