| Job Description: |
Kaiser Permanente Continuing Care Services provides compassionate care to elderly, disabled, and terminally ill patients.
If you are looking for a career that allows you to have a personal, hands-on relationship with your patients in an environment that supports a high degree of autonomy and independence, consider opportunities with Kaiser Permanente, Continuing Care Services.
Job Purpose:
Provides home care services to Kaiser Permanente patients in community based and facility settings. This position may provide therapy services to patients in the home health, hospice, home infusion, palliative care, or other programs under the direction of the patient's physician(s) to provide quality health care outcomes and facilitate the achievement of maximum independence of the patient utilizing health care resources within Kaiser Permanente and the community. This care is provided through coordinating the delivery of high quality, cost-effective skilled, rehabilitative or palliative care as part of an interdisciplinary team.
Basic Qualifications:
• One year experience in evaluation and treatment of adults with swallowing, speech and language disorders.
• Experience as an interdisciplinary team member.
• Master's degree in speech and language pathology.
• Licensed in Oregon and Washington. Requires license in primary state, (Oregon or Washington) prior to first day of employment. Application for licensure in secondary state must be made within six (6) weeks of start date. Licenses in both states required within six (6) months of hire.
• Valid driver's license.
• Basic Life Support CPR card for Health Care Provider. Valid card must be obtained prior to patient contact and within two weeks of hire.
• Certification of clinical competency.
• Demonstrates customer-focused service skills.
• Able to learn to operate a laptop computer to perform clinical documentation.
• Able to adapt quality speech-language pathology care and rehabilitation into a patient's home setting.
• Demonstrates competency in the use of speech and language equipment in the home care setting.
• Able to prioritize patient needs to achieve attainable treatment goals.
• Thorough knowledge of teaching/learning principles.
• Working knowledge of interdisciplinary care coordination.
• Keyboarding or typing skills.
• This position requires completion of a typing test.
• This position requires a reliable automobile to travel to and from patient homes.
Preferred Qualifications:
• 1-2 years of clinical experience providing speech language pathology in a home care or rehabilitation setting.
• Recent experience caring for chronically ill and geriatric patients
• Experience as an interdisciplinary team member.
• Working knowledge of the managed care industry.
• Knowledge of Medicare regulations/requirements.
• Knowledge of care for the chronically ill and frail elderly.
• Knowledge of palliative care for the terminally ill patient.
• Able to work autonomously and manage their case load.
• Excellent time management, problem solving and customer service skills.
• Excellent written & verbal communication skills.
• Operational knowledge of computerized clinical documentation and office application systems including the use of laptop/notebook computers.
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