Speech Therapist-Home Care

Fee For Service Speech Therapist

Your Choice At Home is an affiliate of Cobble Hill Life Center and a Certified Home Health Agency (CHHA). We're culturally sensitive, and many of our staff come from within the community that they serve. Operating 24 hours, 7 days a week, we offer reliable, dignified care in your own home and specialize in health services, personal care, and champion services.

As the Fee-For-Service Pediatric Speech Pathologist is responsible for the planning and provision of speech and language rehabilitation services to patients in their homes; and to work with patient, family and / or others to provide training and / or assistive devices for speech and language rehabilitation.

Now Hiring Per Visit Speech Pathologists in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens!

The Fee-For-Service Pediatric Speech Pathologist is responsible for the planning and provision of speech and language rehabilitation services to patients in their homes; and to work with patient, family and / or others to provide training and / or assistive devices for speech and language rehabilitation.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to :

• Develops a plan of treatment which encompasses treatment modalities, frequency of visits, expected outcome, and short term goals
• Assesses patients and organizes a therapeutic plan of care for therapy including swallowing disorders
• Evaluates test results to determine presence and extent of speech and language disorders or swallowing
• Evaluates patient limitations and rehabilitation potential in collaboration with agency professional
• Evaluates and makes recommendations for the use of therapeutic devices and other equipment to maintain to maintain or restore maximum performance of speech and language
• Considers the patient's psychological response to the effects of disease and changes in body image and speech
• Addresses patient's needs in a treatment plan with realistic short-term and long term
• Implements the plan of treatment under physician direction and in collaboration with agency professional
• Provides speech and language rehabilitation services to achieve identified
• Plans, directs and supervises patient, family and other appropriate health team personnel in the use of specific verbal / physical exercises and / or equipment to facilitate speech and language
• Teaches use of adaptive equipment to patient, family, and other appropriate health team
• Instructs patients, family, and other appropriate health team personnel in program exercises for continuation of maintenance program
• Counsels patient / family to aid in interaction and adjustment to patient's functional limitations
• Observes, records, and reports to the physician and program personnel, the patients' reaction to treatment and any changes

Required Qualifications :