Speech Therapist-Tucson- Full or Part Time - Stellar Home Health
Phoenix, AZ 85016
About the Job
Stellar Home Health - Speech Language Pathologist (Speech Therapist) -Full Time or Part Time
Are you passionate about providing therapy services for individuals with developmental challenges in a fun and positive environment?
Since 2019 Stellar Home Health has been a leading home health agency in Arizona, is looking for a highly skilled and dedicated Speech Language Pathologist (Speech Therapist) to join our loving team in the Phoenix area. If you embody values such as integrity, customer satisfaction, and excellence, this opportunity is for you!
- Choose your own hours and work close to your preferred area
- Support individuals with challenges like Autism, Cerebral Palsy, and Down Syndrome; we serve patients through the DDD: Department of Development Disabilities.
Our Values: Integrity, Excellence, Customer Satisfaction
Stellar Therapists are dedicated to the highest quality of family centered care through their ability to enhance the lives of the patients they serve.
Purpose of our Clinical Division: Patients who demonstrate optimal functioning in their daily lives and with excellent customer service resulting in the referral of our services to others.
Supervisor: Clinic Manager
Bonus: Based on weekly production and paid weekly
Speech Therapy services are delivered in the patient’s natural environment including:
- their home,
- school (preschool, ABA provider, elementary school, etc…)
- community setting (playground, store, public areas)
Skills, Duties, Responsibilities:
- Speech Therapy Skills
- Detailed knowledge of the scope of speech therapy
- Current knowledge of treatment practices per discipline and drive to continually learn and grow in the profession
- Provides therapy screenings as needed to support inter-referrals and referrals out
- Case management skills
- High quality case management
- Coordinating case load schedule with the member and their family to support access to care per the treatment plan/plan of care.
- Appropriate utilization and communication with the scheduling administrators to assist in customer care and schedule/case management
- Evaluation planning, conducting, and report writing
- Address client’s aspects of performance in receptive, expressive language skills, articulation, functional speech, AAC experience preferred but not required, cognition
- Ability to utilize a variety of assessments
- Affectively use clinical observations to complete evaluation details
- Appropriately design long and short-term goals that reflect the unique needs of the patient
- Treatment planning and implementation:
- Select and adapt the appropriate intervention for each member per the speech therapy treatment model, method and approach to direct the therapeutic process
- Apply interventions to maximize progress through plan of care to support age-appropriate functional speech- language skills for each patient
- Teach clients and their families language tools to support functional language skills
- Documentation
- Ability to produce quality documentation that provides medical necessity for services and continued services
- Timeliness of documentation -within Stellar Home Health policy deadline
- Observe, note, and report on progress of long- and short-term treatment goals
- Customer Satisfaction
- Ability to provide comprehensive and effective parent/caregiver education
- Provide consultations with families and other providers as needed
- Write letters of medical necessity and Home Exercise Programs (HEP) as needed
- Guide and educate family members and caregivers
- Supervision Duties
- Supervise a Speech Language Pathology Assistant
- Demonstrates proficiency in complying with the Stellar Home Health Therapy Supervisor Standard of Practice
- scheduling and completion of supervision visits
- Giving quality coaching/instruction to the SLPA to assure that patients on the SLPAs case load are progressing appropriately and that plans of care are updated and adjusted accordingly
- Timeliness of reading and cosigning all of the SLPA’s documentation
- Assuring quality of SLPA’s documentation by providing feedback and coaching on documentation
- Completing any needed one on one therapy visits to support the SLPA with the therapeutic intervention
- Supervise a Speech Therapy Student (STS) or Speech Therapy Assistant Student (STAS)
- Proficient utilization and implementation of the Stellar Student program
- Completing all supervision meetings on time
- Providing hands on learning environment for the student.
- Communication with the University/School site placement coordinator regarding the student as needed
- General skills
- General knowledge of occupational therapy scope of practice as it applies to Stellar Home Health
- General knowledge of physical therapy scope of practice as it applies to Stellar Home Health
- Responsible for own transportation/vehicle
- Responsible for meeting and treating the patient in their natural environment to achieve the purpose of the home health setting
- Problem solving skills
- Organization skills
- Productive
- Able to collaborate with team and Clinical Manager
- Exhibits excellent customer care
- Professionalism Skills
- Exhibits effective and respectful communication between team members, operations, and management team
- Attends required meetings
- Monitoring email and communicating with families and the rest of the team as needed.
- See others team members reschedules as needed if within available time
Full-time benefits:
- Per hour or Guaranteed salary options available
- Affordable Health insurance
- Affordable vision insurance
- Affordable dental insurance
- Affordable Telehealth
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer matching
- Health Savings Account with employer matching
- 5 weeks paid time off per year (includes holidays, sick time, etc.), pro-rated
- All CEUs paid for
- Professional organization fee
- License fee reimbursement
- Liability insurance
- Weekly paycheck
- Bonus programs
- Laptop and iPhone provided
- Life insurance
- Referral program
- Tuition reimbursement
Location: On the road
Join us in making a difference in the lives of children with developmental challenges. Apply now to be part of our enthusiastic team at Stellar Home Health!
Since 2019 Stellar Home Health has been dedicated to providing exceptional home health care services that enhance the quality of life for our clients. We pride ourselves on our compassionate and skilled team of professionals who are committed to making a positive difference in the lives of those we serve. Our team currently consists of over 45 therapists and 60 caregivers who focus on providing comprehensive home care services for individuals with developmental disabilities throughout Arizona.
Our Values: Integrity, Excellence and Customer Satisfaction are the driving force behind everything we do, and those qualities are paramount in our workforce.