Speech-Language Pathologist

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Job Summary: Hospital-based speech-language pathologist specializing in dysphagia, language, voice, and orofacial motor function, providing clinical care and optimizing operational routines. Key Highlights: 1. Bedside speech-language pathology services 2. Collaboration within a multidisciplinary team 3. Optimization of clinical routines and processes 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 jointly with the nutrition department, aiming to streamline service routines and patient progress—reducing intervals between assessments and oral feeding initiation, thereby 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, guaranteeing consistency in clinical decisions; Complete daily patient mapping spreadsheets to monitor service utilization and track the number of patients per unit; these spreadsheets also record each patient’s clinical status, established interventions, and observations for every case management step; 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 to deliver health education across units through staff training on safe and effective weaning from alternative feeding routes and oral feeding initiation. 251126020240647983