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Louisville, Kentucky

Acute Care Speech-Language Pathologist

Speech-Language PathologistFull-Time

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Job Description

Job Description:

Speech Pathologist, Louisville Therapies

Sign On Bonus Available for Experienced Candidates

Where You'll Be

The Baptist Health Louisville Speech Pathology team is focused on providing collaborative patient-centered care. Our team consists of a range of experiences from 1-20+ years. We serve patients that from adult and geriatric with an emphasis on dysphagia and speech/language or cognitive disorders. Treatment is typically a combination of acute care and outpatient rehabilitation.

Diagnoses and treats communication and/swallowing disorders as assigned. Diagnoses may include, but are not limited to neurological disorders, deficits due to injury or surgery, developmental or acquired speech, language and swallowing disorders, hearing impairment, voice or fluency disorders, impaired cognition, sensorimotor deficits. Cooperates with other departments and therapies in the comprehensive approach to patient care.

What You'll Do

  • 1. Schedule, evaluate and treat patients as assigned
  • 2. Develop an outcome-oriented plan of care, including patient and family knowledge sharing
  • 3. Provide a treatment-based on plan of care, and revise as necessary

4. Accurately maintain all patient documentation, including computerized documentation, and complete appropriate charging for evaluation, treatment and teaching

Why You're a Great Fit

  • You are licensed in Speech-Language Pathology from the State of Kentucky
  • You have a CCC (Certificate of Clinical Competence) from American Speech Hearing Association
  • You have or will obtain Basic Life Support (CPR) certification
  • If you would like to be part of a growing family focused on supporting clinical excellence, teamwork and innovation, we urge you to apply now!
  • Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

Key Responsibilities

The Speech-Language Pathologist will schedule, evaluate, and treat patients with communication and swallowing disorders in acute and outpatient settings. They are responsible for developing outcome-oriented plans of care and maintaining accurate patient documentation.

Requirements

Candidates must hold a valid Speech-Language Pathology license from the State of Kentucky and a Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC) from the American Speech-Hearing Association. Additionally, candidates must possess or obtain Basic Life Support (CPR) certification.

Qualifications

Education
Professional certificate or licensure
Experience
2+ years of experience

Certifications

BLS

Key Skills

Dysphagia treatmentPatient evaluationTreatment planningCognitive disorder therapySwallowing disorder treatmentCommunication disorder therapy

Speech-Language Pathologist Career Context

Of the 50 active Speech-Language Pathology listings this role was benchmarked against, 6% are remote, 44% have no call, 48% 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 paynot listedSpeech-Language Pathology median $101k (middle half $84k–$106k)47 comparable listings, Nov 2026
Cost of livingKentucky index 90.2US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Speech-Language Pathology listings in Kentucky91 active7,047 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 6% remote · 44% no call · 48% no weekends50 benchmarked listings
Sign-on & loan repaymentsign-on bonusKentucky speech-language pathologist listings (all specialties): 12% state a sign-on bonus · 9% offer loan repayment107 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 Speech Language Pathologist Jobs

36 matches · ranked by pay

Salary Distribution

23 jobs
6
<$95k
6
$95k-115k
2
$115k-135k
9
$135k-155k

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks

26 jobs
401k / retirement match
81%
CME allowance
35%
Sign-on bonus
23% this job
Loan repayment
19%
Relocation assistance
4%

Share of similar jobs offering each benefit

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$72 per hour
#2

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Up to $140,000
#3

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#4

Home Health Speech Language Pathologist, SLP - San Mateo

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+ 34 more · ranked by pay

Work-life snapshot

median 2.8this job 1.5
Better work-life than 10% 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 Baptist Health

Hospitals and Health Care
San Antonio, Texas
1,001-5,000 employees

Benefits & Perks

Sign-On Bonus Available for Experienced Candidates

Living in Louisville

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$276k
Typical market rent
$1,330/mo
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
93.1
State income tax
Up to 4.5%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Sep 2026), Zillow market rents (Sep 2026).

BEA 2024 · Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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