Speech-Language Pathologist - Ipiaú

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Job Summary: A Speech-Language Pathologist to work in a hospital setting, providing bedside speech-language pathology services and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams. Key Highlights: 1. Bedside speech-language pathology services 2. Collaboration with multidisciplinary teams 3. Focus on dysphagia, language, voice, and orofacial motor skills Description: * Bachelor's degree in Speech-Language Pathology; * Specialization in the field is desirable; * Experience in a hospital setting; * Active CREFONO registration. Provide bedside speech-language pathology services across all hospital units, focusing on dysphagia, language, voice, and orofacial motor skills; Assist in developing the Administrative and Technical Manual to standardize service operations, routines, and clinical interventions; Support implementation of feeding assessment kits jointly with the nutrition department, aiming to streamline service routines and patient progress, reduce intervals between assessments and oral feeding initiation, accelerate weaning from alternative feeding routes, and ultimately reduce costs associated with enteral nutrition and patient hospitalization; Participate in shift handovers, where patient cases are discussed to ensure multidisciplinary resolution and management, guaranteeing consistency in clinical approaches; Complete daily patient mapping spreadsheets to monitor service utilization and track the number of patients per unit; these spreadsheets also record all relevant clinical information, as well as established 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 multidisciplinary team members; Collaborate with the nutrition and nursing departments of nutritional therapy in developing the Enteral Nutrition Handbook, aiming to deliver health education across hospital units through staff training on safe and effective weaning from alternative feeding routes and oral feeding initiation; Support the nutrition and nursing departments of nutritional therapy in EMTN training sessions, aiming to deliver health education across hospital units through staff training on safe and effective weaning from alternative feeding routes and oral feeding initiation. 251205020218923532