- Location
- Childrens Hospital Rehabilitation, United States of America · Childrens Therapy Services Westlake
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Healthcare
- Source
- Workday
Description
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Job Title
Clinical Speech Pathologist - Children's Rehab
Location
Cleveland
Facility
Childrens Hospital Rehabilitation
Department
Therapy Services-Children's Institute
Job Code
T25015
Shift
Days
Schedule
8:00am-4:30pm/10:00am-6:30pm
Job Summary
Job Details
Join a collaborative pediatric rehabilitation team dedicated exclusively to helping children achieve their highest level of communication, feeding, swallowing, and cognitive function. This outpatient role serves a diverse pediatric population with conditions including autism spectrum disorder, developmental delays, acquired brain injuries, feeding and swallowing disorders, and speech/articulation impairments. You'll work alongside experienced occupational therapists, physical therapists, rehabilitation technicians, and fellow speech-language pathologists in a supportive, family-centered environment.
In this role, you'll evaluate and treat children with speech, language, swallowing, and cognitive-communication needs while developing individualized treatment plans that promote meaningful functional outcomes. You'll monitor patient progress, adapt interventions based on clinical response, and partner closely with families and the interdisciplinary care team to ensure coordinated, high-quality care. Success in this position is driven by strong clinical judgment, effective communication, teamwork, and a commitment to delivering exceptional patient outcomes while meeting established quality, productivity, and operational performance goals.
A caregiver in this position works Mon-Fri, start times between 8:00am and 10:00am| occasional weekends and holidays.
A caregiver who excels in this role will:
Perform diagnostic speech pathology test procedures and evaluate communication and swallowing function of patients.
Interpret and reports on test results to facilitate medical diagnosis.
Provide counseling and education about communication and diagnosis to patients and their families.
Determine therapeutic plan, including need for therapy, frequency of treatment, focus for intervention, prognosis and duration of therapy.
Select assistive speech devices to improve patient communication.
Perform re-evaluation to determine progress after therapy.
Provide observations about hearing and other behavior to help determine the need for other services.
Maintain records of all services.
Communicate results and recommendations for improving communicative function to referral sources and outside agencies such schools and employers.
Maintain speech pathology equipment and materials.
Assist with planning, budget, service or project development, fee setting, purchase of new equipment or materials.
Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:
Master’s Degree in Speech/Language Pathology
Current Speech-Language Pathology License (SP) from the State Board of Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology
Certification of Clinical Competence (CCC-SLP) from the American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA)
Completion of a nine-month clinical fellowship year
Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:
Basic Life Support (BLS) through American Heart Association (AHA) or American Red Cross
Physical Requirements:
Ability to stand for long periods of time.
Manual dexterity and visual acuity sufficient to perform tests.
Personal Protective Equipment:
Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required.
The policy of Cleveland Clinic Health System and its system hospitals (Cleveland Clinic Health System) is to provide equal opportunity to all of our caregivers and applicants for employment in our drug free environment. All offers of employment are followed by testing for controlled substances.
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