As our region’s largest health care provider, Tidelands Health is dedicated to keeping the communities we serve healthy and active, inside and outside of the hospital. Ours is a singular commitment: Better health begins here.
Tidelands serves the Carolinas at four hospitals and more than 60 outpatient locations. More than 2,500 employee, physician and volunteer partners are working side by side with our communities to transform the health of our region – promoting wellness, preventing illness, encouraging recovery and restoring health.

Industry: Hospitals and Health Care
Company Size: 1,001-5,000 employees

Tidelands Health

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Employee Type:

Regular

Work Shift:

Day - 8 hour shift (United States of America)

**Join Team Tidelands and help people live better lives through better health!**

**Speech Therapist Outpatient**

Are you passionate about quality and committed to excellence? Consider joining our Tidelands Health team. As our region's largest health care provider, we are also one of our area's largest employers. More than 2,500 team members at more than 70 Tidelands Health locations bring our healing mission to life each day.

**A Brief Overview**

Responsible for providing a full range of therapeutic services including assessment, treatment planning and therapeutic interventions in an interdisciplinary environment consistent with the position's qualification, professional practices, and ethical standards. The speech therapist shall also demonstrate accountability for the contribution to program development, quality improvement, problem solving, and productivity enhancement in a flexible interdisciplinary fashion. Speech Language Pathologists (SLPs) both identify and treat communication problems related to language and speech, as well as various swallowing issues. Working with patients of all ages, Speech Language Pathologists seek to improve communication skills through vocal exercises and cognitive therapies and work on swallowing deficits through various interventions. The employee will complete other duties as assigned.

**What You Will Do**

- Review physician's referral (prescription), patient's condition, medical history, and submitted medical records to determine speech therapy treatment

- Evaluate patients' speech and or swallowing through various standardized tests and clinical observations and evaluation and records findings to develop treatment programs

- Develop a treatment plan for patients with specific goals and tasks

- Plan and prepare written treatment program based on evaluation of patient and incorporate proper interventions that can help patients’ speech and or swallow deficits

- Evaluate effects of treatment at various stages and adjusts treatments to achieve maximum benefit

- Record treatment, responses, and progress in the patient’s electronic medical record and prepare reports as indicated by licensure, the provider, and or insurance recommendations

- Instruct patient and family in treatment procedures to be continued at home

- Complete documentation per clinical / department guidelines and meets expectations of monthly department chart audits

- Promote/educate Organizations Rehabilitation programs to referring physicians, healthcare providers, and or co-workers by performing in-services and/or marketing activities.

- Reduce cancel/no-show rates to improve quality of care and patient outcomes

- Achieve the established average monthly patient care productivity metric

- Complete required orientation as directed by facility

**Education Qualifications**

- Master's Degree Required

**Skills And Abilities**

- Ability to utilize therapy equipment in an outpatient rehabilitation setting to provide treatment and procedures

- Punctual and dependent for assigned/confirmed shifts

- Ability to respect cultural and religious practices of patients

**Licenses and Certifications**

- Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology - South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation Required

- Basic Life Support Certified - American Heart Association within 30 Days Required

- Certificate of Clinical Competence - American Speech-Language-Hearing Association within 2 Years Required

**Physical Demand**

Light-Medium Physical Demand

The intent of this job description is to provide a representative and level of the types of duties and responsibilities that will be required of positions given this title and shall not be construed as a contract for employment nor a declaration of the total of the specific duties and responsibilities of any particular position. Employees may be directed to perform tasks other than those specifically presented in this description. Tidelands Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or veteran status.

Tidelands Health is an equal opportunity employer (EOE). Tidelands Health does not discriminate against employees or applicants for employment on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, age, national origin, disability, marital status, veteran status, gender, genetic information, familial status, or any other legally protected status.

Speech Therapist (Outpatient Pediatrics)

Employee Type:

Regular

Work Shift:

Day - 8 hour shift (United States of America)

**Join Team Tidelands and help people live better lives through better health!**

**POSITION SUMMARY: **Responsible for providing a full range of therapeutic services including assessment, treatment planning and therapeutic interventions in an interdisciplinary environment consistent with the position’s qualification, professional practices, and ethical standards. The speech therapist shall also demonstrate accountability for the contribution to program development, quality improvement, problem solving, and productivity enhancement in a flexible interdisciplinary fashion. Speech Language Pathologists (SLPs) both identify and treat communication problems related to language and speech, as well as various swallowing issues. Working with patients of all ages, Speech Language Pathologists seek to improve communication skills through vocal exercises and cognitive therapies and work on swallowing deficits through various interventions. The employee will complete other duties as assigned.

**ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:**

-  Reviews physician's referral (prescription), patient's condition, medical history, and submitted medical records to determine speech therapy treatment required

-  Evaluate patients' speech and or swallowing through various standardized tests and clinical observations and evaluation and records findings to develop treatment programs

-  Develop a treatment plan for patients with specific goals and tasks

-  Plans and prepares written treatment program based on evaluation of patient and incorporate proper interventions that can help patients’ speech and or swallow deficits.

-  Evaluates effects of treatment at various stages and adjusts treatments to achieve maximum benefit

-  Records treatment, responses, and progress in the patient’s electronic medical record and prepare reports as indicated by licensure, the provider, and or insurance recommendations

-  Instructs patient and family in treatment procedures to be continued at home.

-  Completes documentation per clinical / department guidelines and meets expectations of monthly department chart audits.

**NON-ESSENTIAL/MARGINAL FUNCTIONS:**

- Complete required orientation as directed by facility

- Follow facility and OSHA safety rules and procedures while on assignment

- Follow facility and Joint Commission guidelines and recommendations

- Respect cultural and religious practices of patients

- Uphold HIPAA regulations

- Punctual and dependent for assigned/confirmed shifts

- Achieves the established average monthly patient care productivity metric

-  Promoted / educated Tidelands Health Rehabilitation programs to referring physicians, healthcare providers, and or co-workers by performing in-services and/or marketing activities for outpatient areas

-  Proactively impacts his or her cancel / no show percentage as it relates to improving quality care and patient outcomes in outpatient area only

**REQUIRED/MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:**

**EDUCATION **: Must be a graduate of an accredited therapy program and performed the required clinical internships satisfactorily

**EXPERIENCE **:

**LICENSURE/CERTIFICATION ** Licensed by the state of South Carolina Board of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology Examiners, and active with ASHA

**KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS/ABILITIES **: Ability to utilize therapy equipment in the designated rehabilitation setting to provide treatment and procedures preferred.

**Other: **American Heart Association Healthcare provider course with Basic Life Support **(BLS) certification ** required to be initially completed with the GHS Staff Development Office within 30 calendar days of hire date (exceptions to obtain certification from a provider other than the GHS Staff Development Office are approved by Staff development on a case by case basis). BLS Recertification is required every two years. ACLS preferred.

**ADMINISTRATIVE SUPERVISION:**

None required

**FUNCTIONAL SUPERVISION:**

Functional supervision of rehab technicians

**PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS ****: Light - Medium: **While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently (activity or condition exists from 1/3 to 2/3 of the time) required to stand, sit, and walk; occasionally (activity or condition exists up to 1/3 of the time) to use hands, fingers; and frequently to talk or hear. The employee must exert 20 to 35 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 10 to 15 pounds of force frequently, and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.

Tidelands Health is an equal opportunity employer (EOE). Tidelands Health does not discriminate against employees or applicants for employment on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, age, national origin, disability, marital status, veteran status, gender, genetic information, familial status, or any other legally protected status.

Speech Therapist - Pediatric Rehab Services

Industry: Government Administration
Company Size: 201-500 employees

City of Georgetown South Carolina

Under general direction and supervision of the Director of Planning & Community Development, this position works independently to implement the City's development standards, including zoning, land development, preservation, and other regulations.

**Qualifications & Requirements: **

- Bachelor's degree supplemented by a minimum of three (3) years of experience in planning, zoning, building construction, engineering, geography, environmental studies, or another job-related field, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.

- Zoning Administrator must have a working knowledge of zoning law or past experience as a Zoning Administrator with site plan and blueprint reading abilities.

- Flood Plain Manager Certifications preferred, or ability to obtain and maintain post hire as required or directed.

- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) and GIS with the ability to learn other software such as BS&A, Forerunner, etc.

- Valid SC Driver's License.

For a full job description visit the City of Georgetown at Job Listings - City of Georgetown Jobs.

Zoning Administrator/Community Planner

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