Speech Language Pathologist (#041794M)

El Camino Hospital, a not-for-profit hospital in Mountain View, California, is located on a 41-acre campus in the heart of Silicon Valley. Consistently ranked as a leading hospital in the area, El Camino Hospital recently received the highest ranking in the Patients' Evaluation of Performance in California survey.  The hospital has received national recognition for several pioneering programs, in the areas of, cardiac treatment, radiation oncology and maternity. For more than 42 years, El Camino Hospital has been distinguished by its high caliber staff and affiliated physicians, comprehensive and innovative services and a long history of responding to the needs of the community it serves.

 

We are currently seeking a Speech Language Therapist for acute care hospital, inpatient and outpatient services. This position will collaborate with other members of the healthcare team to promote optimum patient rehabilitation. Provides Speech-Language Pathology services as defined by the California Speech Therapy Practice Act, applying the principles, methods, instrumental procedures, and non-instrumental procedures for measurement, testing, screening, evaluation, identification, prediction, and counseling related to the development and disorders of speech, voice, cognition, language, or swallowing.  Additionally the ideal candidate will apply principles and methods for preventing, planning, directing, conducting, and supervising programs for habilitating, rehabilitation, ameliorating, managing, or modifying disorders of speech, cognition, voice, language or swallowing in individuals or groups of individuals.

 

v Requires ASHA certificate of clinical competence plus 1 year of experience in a clinical setting with adult/neurological patients, including dysphasia programs.

v Experience in videofluroscopy desired.

v Master?s Degree in Speech-Language Pathology.

v Current California License in Speech-Language Pathology.

v CPR certification