Job Description

Job Description

Minimum Qualifications:

Master's degree in related field, Certification or eligible for Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language Pathology from the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association, and Licensure or eligible for Speech Pathology License from the Texas State Board of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology.

Job Summary:

To provide professional skills in the comprehensive evaluation of patients with speech and language impairments, and to provide habilitative and rehabilitative treatment services.

Job Duties:

• Administers and interprets routine and complex tests on adults with speech and language and cognitively impaired patients
• Plans, conducts, and directs rehabilitative treatment programs to restore communication, voice, cognition and swallowing disorders
• Documents findings, rehabilitative techniques, plan of care and patient progress in electronic medical record
• Instructs and demonstrates testing procedures and treatments to medical students and residents
• Senior level staff may also supervises clinical work of support personnel, graduate students and clinical fellows

Preferred Qualifications:

• Texas Speech Pathology License, Certificate of Clinical Competence
• English - bilingual Spanish is helpful, but not required
• Prior experience in adult outpatient care and medically related clinic.
• Experience with adult neurogenic population and swallowing disorders

Salary Range:

Commensurate with experience.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY:

UTMB Health strives to provide equal opportunity employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other basis protected by institutional policy or by federal, state or local laws unless such distinction is required by law. As a Federal Contractor, UTMB Health takes affirmative action to hire and advance protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

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