Speech Language Pathologist

Dignity Health Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital is a 104-bed not-for-profit hospital located in Grass Valley California. The hospital has been providing compassionate quality health care to residents and visitors of western Nevada County since 1958. As an affiliate of the nationally recognized Dignity Health system we ensure the highest standard of health care to our patients and have access to important regional resources throughout the system including the Dignity Health Heart & Vascular Institute the Dignity Health Neurological Institute of Northern California and the Dignity Health Cancer Institute of Greater Sacramento. With 787 employees 101 active medical staff and 21 Emergency Department beds Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital continually implements and upgrades its technology and recruits employees who understand the vital importance of kindness and compassion in the healing process.

Summary:

Provides speech pathology including assessments and developing and implementing treatment programs. Specialized assessment for the appraisal of neuropathologies as they relate to communication and swallowing function including aphasia, cognition, dysphagia and dysarthria

**$5,000 Relocation and $5,000 Sign On**

Skills Required:

• Provides effective and adequate treatment: ongoing assessment of treatment effectiveness, goals and treatment are modified as appropriate in relation to working toward goals

• Medical terminology, current speech pathology techniques, standards, principles and procedures

• Selects appropriate treatment interventions, utilizes specialized techniques
• Patient safety is addressed with follow-up recommended, recommends/obtains equipment as appropriate
• Provides treatment for multiple diagnoses and levels of care appropriate to the age of the patients served
• Demonstrates knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span of the patient
• Interprets knowledge needed to identify each patient's requirements relative to his/her age-specific needs
• Patient/family education and training

Required:

• Has a minimum of one year's clinical experience in Speech/Language Pathology
• Current California license as a Speech Pathologist, Possesses and maintains current CPR certification