CHI St. Anthony Hospital is a 25 bed licensed for 49 faith-based acute care level four trauma critical access hospital and healthcare campus serving the Pendleton Oregon area for more than 100 years. We are committed to the highest quality of patient care and safety; and to strengthening our community through wellness education. CHI St. Anthony Hospital is designed specifically to ensure that our physicians nurses and healthcare professionals can continue to provide extraordinary care for our patients. The 103000 square foot hospital features 4 operations rooms 11 emergency rooms 30 private patient rooms and the latest medical equipment. St. Anthony Hospital has plenty of room to grow as needed by the community and will continue to provide the safest quality of care possible. St. Anthony Hospital was also named one of the top patient experience hospitals in 2021. CHI St. Anthony is a member of CommonSpirit Health the largest not-for-profit health care system in the nation boasting an integrated network of top quality hospitals with physicians from the most prestigious medical schools and comprehensive outpatient services-all recognized for quality safety and service. To learn more go to www.sahpendleton.org

Job Summary / Purpose

This position provides therapeutic management for patients with speech, language and/or cognitive disorders.

Essential Key Job Responsibilities

• Provides direct treatment to patients to meet communication needs in the areas of augmentative communication, cognitive rehabilitation, life skills, expressive language, and receptive language, as deemed appropriate by the supervising speech-language pathologist
• Provides direct treatment assistance, excluding dysphagia. May provide feeding for nutritional purposes.
• Conducts speech and language screenings without interpretation, utilizing screening protocols established by the supervising speech-language pathologist
• Documents patient progress, without interpretation of findings, toward meeting establish objectives as stated in the treatment plan and report this information to the supervising speech-language pathologist
• Assists the speech-language pathologists with informal documentation during an intervention session (collecting and tallying data as directed by the speech-language pathologist), prepare materials, and assist with other clerical duties as specified by the supervising 
• Educates the patient and the caregiver about the goals of the program, methods of accomplishing goals, how to perform the home program and injury prevention.
• Participates with the speech-language pathologist in research projects, in-service training, and public relations programs.
• The job summary and responsibilities listed above are designed to indicate the general nature of the work performed within this job. They are not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all job responsibilities required of employees assigned to this job. Employees may be required to perform other duties as assigned.

Required Licensure and Certifications:

• Approved Training Program
  • a post secondary training program that has approval by the Oregon Board of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology to offer specific coursework and practical leading to licensure as a Speech-Language Pathology assistant.
  • One of the following degrees or certifications from a regionally-accredited program
    • Associate's Degree in SPL assisting
    • Bachelor's Degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders
    • Post Baccalaureate certificate in Communication Sciences and Disorders
• ASHA Certificate of Clinical Competence in SPL
• Current OR SPL
• AHA BLS within one (1) month of hire

Required Minimum Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Skills to work independently essential. 
• Ability to speak, read and write English effectively is essential. 
• Ability to apply technical/professional knowledge as appropriate. 
• High degree of accuracy is required.
• Ability to utilize computer to access e-mail, education and electronic medical record/order entry.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Three (3) years of experience