Speech Language Pathologist (NICU, Pediatrics & Adult Care) Full-Time, Days

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Company:

Marin General Hospital dba MarinHealth Medical Center

Compensation Range:

$49.27 - $73.90

Work Shift:

8 Hour (days) (United States of America)

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Job Description Summary:

Are you a highly skilled Speech-Language Pathologist looking for a rare opportunity to practice at the top of your license across NICU, pediatric, and adult populations? At MarinHealth Medical Center, you'll join an exceptional, collaborative team that provides evidence-based care across the full continuum of swallowing, feeding, communication, and cognitive-linguistic disorders. This unique position offers approximately 50/50 adult and NICU/pediatric caseload exposure, giving you the opportunity to maintain and advance specialized expertise in NICU feeding and swallowing, outpatient pediatric communication and dysphagia services, and adult acute care practice, all within one role.

Working alongside a close-knit team of respected SLPs who value clinical excellence, family-centered care, and mutual professional support, you'll play a vital role in helping patients achieve meaningful functional outcomes. As our NICU advances from a Level II to Level III program, you'll have the opportunity to contribute to best-practice initiatives and further develop your clinical expertise through advanced certifications and specialized practice. If you're seeking a challenging, rewarding, and truly uncommon SLP opportunity that combines neonatal, pediatric, and adult care in one setting, you'll find that opportunity at MarinHealth!

Job Requirements, Prerequisites and Essential Functions:

Shift

8-hours, 5 days per week with rotating weekend responsibility

Education

Master’s degree in Speech-Language Pathology or Communication Sciences and Disorders from an accredited program.

Experience

Preferred: Two (2) to three (3) years of progressively increasing responsibility as a Speech-Language Pathologist in an acute care hospital or healthcare setting.

Demonstrated clinical experience evaluating and treating communication and swallowing disorders appropriate to the patient populations served.

Acute-care, NICU swallowing and feeding, inpatient rehabilitation, outpatient, outpatient pediatric, or other directly relevant healthcare experience preferred based on department needs.

Experience with dysphagia evaluation and treatment, interdisciplinary care planning, and medically complex patients preferred when applicable to assignment.

Licenses & Certifications

Current, valid California Speech-Language Pathologist license issued by the Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology and Hearing Aid Dispensers Board.

Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language Pathology (CCC-SLP) issued by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), required.

Integrative Agitation Management (IAM) within 30 days of hire, if applicable to the patient population and department requirement.

CCS Paneled Speech Pathologist desired, but not required at hire.

Prerequisite Skills

Demonstrated knowledge of speech-language pathology principles and practices, including communication, cognitive-linguistic, voice, motor-speech, and swallowing disorders relevant to the populations served.

Ability to complete comprehensive evaluations, analyze and interpret findings to form a clinical diagnosis, establish functional and measurable goals, develop individualized plans of care, and modify treatment based on patient response and progress.

Demonstrate clinical judgment in identifying components of disordered swallow that impact airway invasion, changes in swallowing or communication status, and other findings requiring modification of care or timely escalation to the appropriate provider or care-team member.

Must have knowledge of all aspects of speech-language pathology, swallowing disorders, learning disabilities, non-verbal communication systems, normal human development and laws which govern the profession.

Ability to select and apply age-, diagnosis-, and function-appropriate evaluation tools, therapeutic techniques, compensatory strategies, and patient/family education.

Ability to communicate evaluation findings, recommendations, treatment plans, progress, and discharge needs clearly and objectively to patients, families, physicians, and interdisciplinary team members.

Ability to establish therapeutic rapport and provide counseling and education in a respectful, understandable, culturally responsive, and patient-centered manner.

Strong documentation skills, including accurate, complete, timely, and clinically defensible documentation of evaluations, plans of care, treatment, progress, education, communication, and discharge recommendations.

Working knowledge of professional standards, scope of practice, patient privacy, safety, infection prevention, and applicable laws and regulations governing speech-language pathology practice.

Ability to manage a clinically appropriate caseload, prioritize competing patient needs, coordinate care, and communicate barriers or unusual patient-care concerns to department leadership.

Ability to collaborate effectively across disciplines, accept and provide constructive feedback, participate in quality improvement, and contribute to program development within assigned scope.

Ability to develop and present education to staff, patients, families, community groups, or professional audiences within demonstrated expertise.

Demonstrated behaviors consistent with MarinHealth C.A.R.E.S.: clear communication, accountability, respect, excellence, and active commitment to patient and workforce safety.

Primary Customer Served (Age Specific)

Provides services to patients of all ages, from infant to extreme age, using evaluation tools and therapy techniques selected to be appropriate for specific age, either chronological age or functional age.

Patient Privacy (HIPAA Compliance)

Accesses protected health information only as necessary to perform assigned duties and maintains the privacy, security, and confidentiality of patient information in accordance with MarinHealth policy and applicable law.

Duties and Responsibilities

Evaluate patients and interpret results to diagnose communication, cognitive-linguistic, voice, motor-speech, and/or swallowing disorders using appropriate clinical evaluation methods and standardized tools.

Develop individualized plans of care with functional, measurable goals based on evaluation findings, patient needs, clinical judgment, physician orders when applicable, and interdisciplinary priorities.

Provide evidence-informed speech-language pathology treatment and modify interventions based on patient response, progress, safety, goals, and changes in clinical condition.

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