Speech-Language Pathologist

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Job Summary: A Speech-Language Pathologist to work in a hospital setting, providing bedside care and collaborating in health management and education for the multidisciplinary team. Key Highlights: 1. Bedside speech-language pathology services (dysphagia, language, voice) 2. Support in developing clinical manuals and care protocols 3. Collaboration with the multidisciplinary team in health education Description: * Bachelor's degree in Speech-Language Pathology; * Specialization in the field is desirable; * Experience in hospital settings; * Active CREFONO registration. Provide bedside speech-language pathology services across all hospital units, focusing on dysphagia, language, voice, and orofacial motor function; Assist in developing the Administrative and Technical Manual to standardize service operations, routines, and clinical actions; Support implementation of feeding assessment kits in collaboration with the nutrition team, aiming to streamline service routines and patient progress—reducing the interval between assessments and oral feeding 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 to ensure multidisciplinary resolution and management, and to maintain consistency in clinical decision-making; Complete daily patient mapping spreadsheets to track service utilization and patient volume per unit; these sheets also record patients' clinical status and document clinical decisions 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 to develop the Enteral Nutrition Handbook, enabling health education across units through staff training on safe and effective weaning from alternative feeding routes and oral feeding initiation; Support the nutrition and nursing teams of nutritional therapy in EMTN training sessions, delivering health education across units through staff training on safe and effective weaning from alternative feeding routes and oral feeding initiation. 251228020249647983