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BAYADA Home Health Care
Boston, Massachusetts

Home Health Speech Language Pathologist

Speech-Language PathologistPer Diem

Listed compensation

$65-$75/hr

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Job Description

Per Diem Speech Language Pathologist - Home Health

Flexible Schedule Options!!

BAYADA Home Health Care is currently seeking an experienced Speech Language Pathologist, SLP for a per diem opportunity performing home health visits for adult and geriatric patients in their homes in Back Bay, Beacon Hill, South Boston, Dorchester and Surrounding Towns. Prior home care experience preferred, but not required.

As a home health Speech Therapist, you will be an integral member of a multi-disciplinary health care team that provides rehabilitative care and skilled nursing to clients, affording them the opportunity to receive the medical care required to remain at home.

Please Call or Text Susan at 339-235-4363 for immediate consideration!

BAYADA Home Health Care has a special purpose: to help people of all ages have a safe home life with comfort, independence, and dignity. We believe our clients and their families deserve the highest quality home health care delivered with compassion, excellence, and reliability - our core values. With more than 300 offices nationwide, founder Mark Baiada still maintains the same compassionate, human focus that made our first office unique in 1975.

Responsibilities Include

  • Make home visits to clients in designated geographic territories.
  • Perform thorough evaluations to assess, diagnose and provide therapeutic interventions for clients who are experiencing, speech, language, communication or swallowing difficulties.
  • Develop a treatment plan based on the evaluation, physician’s orders and recommended goals.

Continually assess and revise the speech therapy care plan, and participate with BAYADA Clinicians in the multidisciplinary care plan, as appropriate.

Educate and instruct patients, family members, or other patient representatives, in rehabilitative care and activities necessary to promote the client's health, safety and independent living.

Accurately document observations, interventions and evaluations pertaining to patient care management and services provided, utilizing a touch pad tablet.

Qualifications Include

  • A current license as a Speech-Language Pathologist in Massachusetts
  • One year experience as a Speech Language Pathologist

Why Choose BAYADA?

BAYADA offers a comprehensive benefits plan that includes the following: Paid holidays, vacation and sick leave, vision, dental and medical health plans, employer paid life insurance, 401k with company match, direct deposit and employee assistance program

  • To learn more about BAYADA Benefits, click here.
  • Base Pay: $65.00 - $75.00 per point depending on qualifications
  • Please Call or Text Susan at 339-235-4363 for immediate consideration!

As an accredited, regulated, certified, and licensed home health care provider, BAYADA complies with all state/local mandates.

BAYADA is celebrating 50 years of compassion, excellence, and reliability. Learn more about our 50th anniversary celebration and how you can join in here.

BAYADA Home Health Care, Inc., and its associated entities and joint venture partners, are Equal Opportunity Employers.

All employment decisions are made on a non-discriminatory basis without regard to sex, race, color, age, disability, pregnancy or maternity, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, military status, or any other similarly protected status in accordance with federal, state and local laws.

Hence, we strongly encourage applications from people with these identities or who are members of other marginalized communities.

Key Responsibilities

The Speech Language Pathologist will perform home visits to evaluate, diagnose, and treat patients with speech, language, or swallowing difficulties. They are responsible for developing and revising treatment plans while educating patients and families on rehabilitative care.

Requirements

Candidates must hold a current license as a Speech-Language Pathologist in Massachusetts. At least one year of experience as a Speech Language Pathologist is required.

Key Skills

Patient evaluationDiagnosisSwallowing assessmentCommunication therapyTreatment planningPatient educationClinical documentationMultidisciplinary collaborationGeriatric care

Speech-Language Pathologist Career Context

Of the 40 active Speech-Language Pathology listings this role was benchmarked against, 5% are remote, 40% have no call, 45% require no weekends.

Speech-Language Pathology pay on WeekdayDoc is up 2.1% vs. the prior quarter (through Oct 2026).

Speech-Language Pathology by the numbers
MeasureThis jobMarket
Listed pay$135k–$156kSpeech-Language Pathology median $108k (middle half $103k–$120k)15 comparable listings, Nov 2026
Cost-of-living adjusted pay~$138k in purchasing powerMassachusetts index 105.8 (US = 100)BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Speech-Language Pathology listings in Massachusetts159 active7,047 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 5% remote · 40% no call · 45% no weekends40 benchmarked listings
Sign-on & loan repaymentnot statedMassachusetts speech-language pathologist listings (all specialties): 12% state a sign-on bonus · 8% offer loan repayment166 active listings, Nov 2026
New Speech-Language Pathology listings2,596 in the last 30 days1,377 the 30 days before (+89%)U.S., first seen on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Speech-Language Pathology pay trend+2.1% vs prior quarter—through Oct 2026
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index, BEA Regional Price Parities (2024); as of Nov 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page.

Top contract/1099 Speech Language Pathologist Jobs

40 matches · ranked by pay

Salary Distribution

23 jobs
9
<$115k
2
$115k-130k
8
$130k-145k
4
$145k-160k

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks

29 jobs
401k / retirement match
79% this job
CME allowance
38%
Sign-on bonus
24%
Loan repayment
17%
Relocation assistance
3%

Share of similar jobs offering each benefit

#1

Speech-Language Pathologist Clinical Fellow

Dragonfly Cares · Dix Hills, New York

$65-$90/hr
#2

Speech Therapist (ST)- Columbus

Home Care Providers Group · Dublin, Ohio

starting at $75/hr
#3

Speech Therapist

$64-$74/hr
#4

Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP)

$65/hr
+ 38 more · ranked by pay

Work-life snapshot

median 2.8this job 2.8
Better work-life than 50% of Speech Language Pathology listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 6,883 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

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About BAYADA Home Health Care

Hospitals and Health Care
Pennsauken Township, New Jersey
10,000+ employees

Benefits & Perks

Paid holidays, vacation, and sick leave
Vision, dental, and medical health plans
Employer-paid life insurance
401k with company match
Direct deposit
Employee assistance program

Living in Boston

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$800k
Typical market rent
$3,271/mo
Residents’ average commute
30 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
108.3
State income tax
Up to 5%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Sep 2026), Zillow market rents (Sep 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.