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Dove Healthcare
Spooner, Wisconsin

Speech Language Pathologist-Casual

Speech-Language PathologistPer Diem

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Job Description

Make a Difference. Grow Your Career. Love Where You Work.

Dove Healthcare is looking for a passionate, licensed Speech Language Pathologist to join our dynamic team in Spooner!

Ready to make a meaningful impact without sacrificing work-life balance? At Dove Healthcare, you'll find a supportive team, a modern, spacious therapy gym equipped with the latest technology, and manageable productivity expectations that allow you to focus on what matters most: your patients.

Why You'll Love Being Part of Our Team

  • Enhanced starting wage scale to recognize your skills and expertise
  • State-of-the-art therapy gym with modern equipment and technology
  • Balanced productivity expectations that support quality patient care
  • Less travel and a consistent caseload of inpatient and outpatient patients
  • Opportunities to develop a specialty and expand your clinical skills
  • Flexible scheduling to help you maintain a healthy work-life balance
  • A supportive, collaborative team where your contributions make a difference

Position Details

  • Casual status
  • Flexible days and hours
  • Build a schedule that works for you

What You'll Do

  • Provide high-quality speech, language, cognitive, and swallowing services to patients
  • Collaborate with an experienced, multidisciplinary therapy team
  • Help patients reach their goals and maximize their independence
  • Work in a modern, spacious therapy gym with the latest technology and equipment

What We're Looking For

Master's degree in Speech Language Pathology from an accredited college or university (bachelor's degree accepted for those who are grandfathered in)

Current Wisconsin license as a Speech Language Pathologist

New graduates are encouraged to apply! Start your career in an environment where you can learn, grow, and make a meaningful difference in the lives of others.

  • Your benefits that start on the date of hire:
  • Employee assistance and referral bonus program
  • Career development, continuing education, and advancement opportunities
  • Employee referral bonus up to $2,000!

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or Veteran status.

About Dove Healthcare

Dove Healthcare consists of eleven skilled nursing and rehabilitation centers and six assisted living residences in Barron, Bloomer, Chippewa Falls, Eau Claire, Osseo, Spooner, and Rice Lake.

Our core services include in-patient and out-patient rehabilitation, post-hospital care, ventilator care, dialysis, skilled nursing, long-term and end-of-life care, as well as senior independent living, assisted living, and memory care.

As an innovative healthcare provider and community partner, we provide compassionate care and service to meet the needs of those who depend on us. We commit to excellence through adherence to high standards, disciplined leadership, and mutual respect for all.

For more information, visit dovehealthcare.com. Join our team today!

Key Responsibilities

Provide high-quality speech, language, cognitive, and swallowing services to patients in a clinical setting. Collaborate with a multidisciplinary therapy team to help patients reach their goals and maximize independence.

Requirements

Requires a Master's degree in Speech Language Pathology and a current Wisconsin license. New graduates are encouraged to apply.

Qualifications

Education
Master's degree (postgraduate degree)

Key Skills

Speech therapyLanguage therapyCognitive therapyMultidisciplinary collaboration

Speech-Language Pathologist Career Context

Of the 50 active Speech-Language Pathology listings this role was benchmarked against, 4% are remote, 42% have no call, 52% require no weekends.

Speech-Language Pathology pay on WeekdayDoc is up 4.3% vs. the prior quarter (through Oct 2026).

Speech-Language Pathology by the numbers
MeasureThis jobMarket
Listed paynot listedSpeech-Language Pathology median $101k (middle half $91k–$117k)34 comparable listings, Nov 2026
Cost of livingWisconsin index 94.1US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Speech-Language Pathology listings in Wisconsin97 active6,936 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 4% remote · 42% no call · 52% no weekends50 benchmarked listings
Sign-on & loan repaymentnot statedWisconsin speech-language pathologist listings (all specialties): 11% state a sign-on bonus · 5% offer loan repayment110 active listings, Nov 2026
New Speech-Language Pathology listings2,504 in the last 30 days1,378 the 30 days before (+82%)U.S., first seen on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Speech-Language Pathology pay trend+4.3% 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

36 matches · ranked by pay

Salary Distribution

25 jobs
8
<$90k
4
$90k-110k
3
$110k-130k
10
$130k-150k

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks

28 jobs
401k / retirement match
79%
CME allowance
36% this job
Sign-on bonus
25%
Loan repayment
18%
Relocation assistance
4%

Share of similar jobs offering each benefit

#1

Virtual Speech Language PathologistContract

Liberty Education Solutions · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

$72 per hour
#2

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Up to $140,000
#3

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Up to $140,000
#4

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Up to $140,000
+ 34 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 6,936 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

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About Dove Healthcare

Hospitals and Health Care
Eau Claire, Wisconsin
201-500 employees

Benefits & Perks

Employee assistance program
Referral bonus program up to $2,000
Career development
Continuing education
Advancement opportunities
Flexible scheduling

Living in Spooner

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$326k
Median resident rent
$763/mo
Residents’ average commute
18 min
State income tax
Up to 7.7%
Sources & methodology

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

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