Speech-Language Pathologist - Ipiaú

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Job Summary: Hospital-based speech-language pathologist focused on bedside care, service standardization, and multidisciplinary collaboration to optimize patient care. Key Highlights: 1. Bedside speech-language pathology services 2. Multidisciplinary collaboration within the hospital team 3. Optimization of clinical routines and health education Description: * Bachelor's degree in Speech-Language Pathology; * Specialization in the field is desirable; * Experience in hospital settings; * Active CREFONO registration. Deliver bedside speech-language pathology services across all hospital units, with emphasis on dysphagia, language, voice, and orofacial motor function; Assist in developing the Administrative and Technical Manual to standardize service operations, clinical routines, and care activities; Support implementation of feeding assessment kits jointly with the nutrition department to streamline service workflows and improve patient outcomes—reducing intervals between assessments and oral intake initiation, accelerating weaning from alternative feeding routes, and ultimately reducing enteral nutrition costs and facilitating patient discharge; Participate in shift handovers where patient cases are discussed, ensuring multidisciplinary resolution and management, and maintaining consistency in clinical decision-making; Complete daily patient mapping spreadsheets to monitor service utilization and track the number of patients per unit; these sheets also record clinical status, interventions, and observations for each case; Document speech-language pathology progress notes in the electronic health record system to optimize service workflow and communication among the multidisciplinary team; Collaborate with the nutrition and nursing teams of nutritional therapy in developing the Enteral Nutrition Handbook to deliver health education across units through staff training on safe and effective weaning from alternative feeding routes and oral intake initiation; Provide support to the nutrition and nursing teams of nutritional therapy during EMTN training sessions to deliver health education across units through staff training on safe and effective weaning from alternative feeding routes and oral intake initiation. 251103020224923532