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Specialty: Speech Therapy | Speech Therapist
City: Blue Springs
State: Missouri
Metro Area: Kansas City MO-KS
Job ID: P-142360
Shift: Days - 40 Weekly Hrs.
Length: 13 Weeks
Est. Gross Weekly Pay*: $2112
Start Date: ASAP
Facility Setting:
Assignment Location
American Traveler Allied has an opening for a contract SLP in Missouri. This assignment puts you in the Kansas City MO-KS area. Enjoy the increased pay and new experiences that come with traveling to locations like Blue Springs, along with our full benefits package and top-rated customer service.
Facility Details
This 88-bed Catholic hospital is an accredited Chest Pain Center and Certified Stroke Center located on the eastern border of Kansas City. It specializes in breast health, cardiology, emergency services, oncology, orthopedics, rehab, and wound care, among others. It also offers outpatient services such as occupational therapy, physical therapy, and speech-language pathology. This medical center received the American Heart Association Get with the Guidelines Stroke Gold Plus award.
Location Info: Once owned by the French and called New France, Missouri has a diverse cultural heritage.
Speech Therapy Job Responsibilities
Speech-language pathologists work to prevent, identify, and overcome various speech, language, communication, and swallowing disorders or challenges.
- Certified speech-language pathologists may be required to hold an American Heart Association BLS depending on their state of practice and healthcare employer.
- Many certified SLPs choose to specialize informally, meaning that they focus on one component of speech, language, or swallowing, on a specific age group, or on a specific patient group. For example, an SLP may mainly assist individuals with speech disfluency, work exclusively with geriatric patients, or focus on post-surgical patients.
- Some speech-language pathologists, however, choose to pursue formal specialization through the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA).
- An SLP may only apply for specialization after obtaining his or her national certification, the Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language Pathology (CCC-SLP), and meeting the requisite experience. At this point they can apply to become a Board Certified Specialist (BCS) in one of the following areas:
- American Board of Child Language and Language Disorders American Board of Fluency and Fluency Disorders
- American Board of Swallowing and Swallowing Disorders
- American Audiology Board of Intraoperative Monitoring
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- fast start $$ - above average pay in this specialty
Date Posted: 2024-01-19
