Speech Language Pathologist Care Manager PRN Home health

Home Health Speech Language Pathologist Care Manager – AdventHealth Home Health

All the benefits and perks you need for you and your family:

• Career Development
• Whole Person Wellbeing Resources
• Mental Health Resources and Support

Our promise to you: Joining AdventHealth is about being part of something bigger. It’s about belonging to a community that believes in the wholeness of each person, and serves to uplift others in body, mind and spirit. AdventHealth is a place where you can thrive professionally, and grow spiritually, by Extending the Healing Ministry of Christ. Where you will be valued for who you are and the unique experiences you bring to our purpose-minded team.

Schedule: Per Diem

Shift: Day Shift 8am-4:30pm No Weekends on Call.

Location: Covering Clay and Jackson Counties.

The role you’ll contribute: The Home Health ST Care Manager coordinates and directs the home care patient's care based on individual patient needs. Care Manager is responsible for independent management of the Home Health patient population requiring the use of advanced assessment, teaching and decision-making skills. The nurse is responsible for ensuring that appropriate referrals to other services are made, interdisciplinary conferencing takes place regularly, and appropriate documentation is completed. Relevant knowledge and experience is consistently applied to new patient populations. The Care Manager cares for a caseload of home health patients by evaluating the patient for appropriateness of home health and developing the home care plan in conjunction with the physician. S/he educates patients, families, caregivers and community providers to safely perform care. S/he provides follow up by evaluating effectiveness of the home care plan, and monitoring patient/family's response to the plan to achieve patient/family goals and top decile outcomes. The Care Manager also identifies performance improvement and home health standard of care initiatives and assists to design or implement programs to address needed changes.

The value you’ll bring to the team:

• Performs an evaluation and utilises the findings to determine diagnosis (for SLP services), prognosis and plan of care in consultation with the physician.
• Determines specific interventions, duration and frequency needed to achieve anticipated goals and outcomes.
• Observes and records activities and findings in the clinical record and reports to the physician and/or primary Care Manager the patient’s reaction to treatment and any changes in patient’s condition, or when there are deviations from the plan of care.
• Instructs the patient and caregiver regarding the patient’s speech language improvement program including adaptive equipment and the home program.
• Instructs other health team personnel including, when appropriate, home health aides and caregivers in certain phases of speech therapy with which they may work with the patient.
• Selects, applies or modifies skilled intervention to the patient using various skilled interventions consistent with the state practice act to achieve the best outcome possible for the patient.
• Assesses patient response to interventions and performs reassessments as required.
• Documents in medical record, accurately reflecting treatment provided.
• Updates the care plan as needed including the aide care plan; writes modified orders for changes in the plan of care, performs and documents the aide supervision by the due date.
• Completes all documentation within the time frame required by the agency, including reassessments, discharge summaries and OASIS documents.
• Participates in clinical record review, agency staff meetings, therapy meetings and other activities as requested.

The expertise and experiences you’ll need to succeed:

Minimum qualifications:

• Master's in Speech Therapy
• 1 relevant clinical Speech therapy
• Speech Therapist – Certified in State of Practice
• Registered Nurse – State Licensure and/or Compact State Licensure
• Valid in state Driver’s License with current car insurance

Preferred qualifications:

• Recent, relevant experience in a Medicare-certified home health agency as a case-manager
• Certificate for OASIS Specialist – Clinical
• Home Health Case-Manager Certification