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Jefferson City, Tennessee

Speech Pathologist SLP PRN

Speech-Language PathologistPer Diem

Listed compensation

$54/hour

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Job Description

  • Shift: PRN
  • 1 to 2 days per week.
  • Make a Meaningful Impact—One Home at a Time!

Are you a passionate Speech Therapist ready to bring life-changing care directly to patients in the comfort of their homes? Join our dedicated home health team and help adults overcome speech, language, cognitive-communication, and swallowing challenges. From aural rehabilitation to innovative AAC solutions, your expertise will empower individuals to communicate more clearly and live more fully.

  • Join Us Today!
  • Attractive pay
  • 54.00 TO 56.25

Responsibilities

Responsible for working to prevent, assess, diagnose and treat speech, language, social communication, cognitive communication and swallowing disorders in adults.

Provides aural rehabilitation for individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing and provides augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems for individuals with severe expressive and/or language comprehension disorders.

Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Current, unencumbered license to practice speech pathology specific to that state you are assigned to work.

Current Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language Pathology (CCC-SLP)* with completed graduate course work and a clinical practicum at a college or university whose program is accredited by the Council on Academic Accreditation in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology (CAA).

  • Current CPR certification.
  • Preferred
  • One (1+) year of experience in speech pathology.

*Note: If the SLP - CCC certification has not been obtained the candidate must be put into the SLP Clinical Fellow (100910) job. Clinical Fellowship (CFY) is the transition between student and independent which involves an SLP supervisor, hour requirements and mentoring.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets and may vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Amedisys is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified employees and applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, pregnancy, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, disability, military status, sexual orientation, genetic predisposition or carrier status or any other legally protected characteristic.

Qualifications

Education
Professional certificate or licensure

Key Skills

Cognitive-communication therapySwallowing disorder treatmentPatient assessmentDiagnosisClinical documentationHome health care

Speech-Language Pathologist Career Context

Of the 40 active Speech-Language Pathology listings this role was benchmarked against, 8% are remote, 43% have no call, 55% require no weekends.

Speech-Language Pathology pay on WeekdayDoc is down 3.0% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

The cost-of-living index for Tennessee is 91.9 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 58.6% of Tennessee clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Location & Logistics

Tennessee has no state income tax, which can significantly increase take-home pay compared to high-tax states.

Top Speech Language Pathologist Jobs

38 matches · ranked by pay

Salary Distribution26 jobs · 24 employers

6
<$115k
3
$115k-130k
9
$130k-145k
7
$145k-160k
1
$166k

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks28 jobs · 24 employers

401k / retirement match
89%
CME allowance
50%
Sign-on bonus
11%
Loan repayment
7%
PSLF eligible
4%

Share of similar jobs offering each benefit

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Pivot Home Health · Brighton, Colorado

$166k – $193k
#2

Acute Care Speech Language Pathologist - CPMC Van Ness Campus

Sutter Health · San Francisco, California

$65.01-$91.01/hr
#3

Speech-Language Pathologist (Per Diem, Evaluations Only)

$75-$80/hr
#4

Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) Part time

$65-$80/hr
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Work-life snapshot

median 3.0this job 1.5
Better work-life than 10% of Speech Language Pathology listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 6,664 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

Living in Jefferson City

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$327k
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
86.4
State income tax
None
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026).

BEA 2024 · Morristown, TN metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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