Acute Care Speech-Language Pathologist
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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
Key Skills
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).
| Measure | This job | Market |
|---|---|---|
| Listed pay | not listed | Speech-Language Pathology median $101k (middle half $84k–$106k)47 comparable listings, Nov 2026 |
| Cost of living | Kentucky index 90.2 | US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024) |
| Speech-Language Pathology listings in Kentucky | 91 active | 7,047 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026 |
| Work setting | on-site | peers: 6% remote · 44% no call · 48% no weekends50 benchmarked listings |
| Sign-on & loan repayment | sign-on bonus | Kentucky speech-language pathologist listings (all specialties): 12% state a sign-on bonus · 9% offer loan repayment107 active listings, Nov 2026 |
| New Speech-Language Pathology listings | 2,596 in the last 30 days | 1,377 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 |
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