Speech Language Pathologist - Outpatient Pediatric Rehab

Creating Life Better Here starts with you. At San Juan Regional Medical Center, we're more than a healthcare provider—we're a values-driven organization dedicated to delivering exceptional care. As a team member, you help fulfill our mission to make life better here for our community.

Speech Language Pathologists are dynamic, fun, patient focused professionals who use their knowledge, skills and energy to carry out the sacred task of helping others to improve their ability to function – thereby bettering lives.

Required Behaviors: As you go about fulfilling this mission, your work habits and work relationships should embody SJRMC's values.

These values are our culture, our identity as an organization: Sacred Trust, Personal Reverence, Thoughtful Anticipation, Team Accountability, and Creative Vitality ask more of us than merely completing some list of tasks.

Our values ask for a deeper level of commitment, and what is asked of us we freely give because we believe in our mission.

Required Qualifications

Current New Mexico SLP license, either CFY or CCC BLS/CPR Physical demands – refer to rehab department description of physical demands Preferred Qualifications: Sufficient previous experience to perform duties Modified Barium Swallow Study experience Duties and Responsibilities: Interpretation of referrals & orders to check for appropriateness, indications, and contraindications Initial evaluations/ Discharge summaries/ Re-evaluations/ Daily treatments: Are performed & documented in timely manner Education and instruction as indicated, including, but not limited to: patient, family, other staff, or follow up facilities Transportation of patients as needed Maintain, gather, clean, set up all equipment per facility policies Daily recordkeeping, including (but not limited to) evaluations, daily treatment notes, discharge notes and daily charges, and all communication/education provided (per facility / department policy) Each employee is responsible for implementing SJRMC’s Service Standards into their daily work: Safety, Courtesy, Effectiveness, and Stewardship Other duties as assigned Physical Demands and Environmental Work Conditions: All Rehab Department jobs may place heavy physical demands on the employee.

The amount of time that the employee is exposed to these demands will fluctuate, as there are uncontrollable variables inherent in healthcare: patient’s height and weight, patient’s level of cooperation and strength, specific clinical needs, etc. Physical Activities: All Rehab Department jobs may require lifting / pushing / pulling varying weights, may exceed two hundred (200) pounds Activities may include intermittent or prolonged: standing, walking, sitting, talking, hearing, using the hands to finger and feel, pushing, pulling, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, reaching with arms, and smelling Repetitive motions may also be required, such as: wrist / hand movements, grasping, and finger dexterity (as in typing, writing, faxing, filing papers, etc.) Work Environment: The job requires exposure to the following environmental conditions: wet, humid conditions (not the weather), working near moving or mechanical parts, fumes or airborne particles, risk of electrical shock, risk of vibration The noise level will vary from very quiet to very loud Sensory Requirements: The employee will need to be able to hear: alarms on equipment / fire alarms / overhead announcements patients / families verbal discussion instructions / feedback from other healthcare providers The employee will need to be able to: See and focus on close-up and distant objects Distinguish colors Have intact: peripheral vision and depth perception As you go about fulfilling this mission, your work habits and work relationships should embody SJRMC's values.

These values are our culture, our identity as an organization. Sacred Trust, Personal Reverence, Thoughtful Anticipation, Team Accountability and Creative Vitality ask more of us than merely completing some list of tasks.

Our values ask for a deeper level of commitment, and what is asked of us we freely give because we believe in our mission. To learn more, visit us at sanjuanregional.com.