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Saint Luke's Health System
Kansas City, Missouri

Speech Pathologist PRN

Speech-Language PathologistIncludes weekendsPer Diem

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Job Description

Saint Luke’s Hospital is seeking a PRN Speech Pathologist to join our team!

Provides prevention, screening, evaluation, diagnosis, management and counseling services to clients with speech/ language, cognitive-communication and /or oral-pharyngeal sensorimotor impairments. Plans directs and conducts habilitative, rehabilitative and counseling programs to treat impairments involving verbal and written language.

PRN: hour day shifts for weekday and weekend shifts. Typically 8:00 am – 4:30 pm. Minimum requirement is 4 total shifts per 8 week scheduling block with 2 of those being weekend shifts, 1 weekday, and the remaining shift either weekend or weekday. Also required to work on or around major holiday (Thanksgiving, Christmas/New Year) and on or around 1 minor (Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day.)

  • Evaluates patients after impairment, injury, or disease.
  • Creates an individualized patient-centered treatment plan based on evidenced based practice and selects appropriate interventions based upon evaluation and assessment of patient.
  • Re-evaluates and provides periodic reassessment of patient progress and contributes to discharge planning.
  • May supervise treatment provided by students and assistants.
  • Participates and makes recommendations for client care interventions to the interdisciplinary health care team.
  • Delegates and instructs supportive personnel in services to be provided.
  • Provides timely documentation per department and/or entity policy and as required by insurance provider to meet licensing, certification, regulatory, reimbursement requirements, and physician treatment plan.
  • Uses professional judgment to ensure safety to self, patients, and others at all times.
  • Performs all other duties as requested by manager.
  • Participates in quality initiatives
  • Meets system and departmental shift requirements
  • Bachelor’s degree required
  • MO Speech Pathology license required
  • Certificate of Clinical Competence designation preferred
  • Job Requirements

Applicable Experience

  • 1 year
  • Basic Life Support - American Heart Association or Red Cross, Cert Clinical Competence-Speech/Lang - American Speech Language Hearing Association, Speech Pathology - Various
  • Master's Degree - Speech Pathology

Job Details

  • PRN
  • Day (United States of America)

Key Responsibilities

The Speech Pathologist provides screening, evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment for patients with speech, language, and cognitive-communication impairments. They also collaborate with the interdisciplinary health care team to develop individualized treatment plans and ensure timely documentation.

Requirements

Candidates must hold a Bachelor's degree in Speech Pathology and a Missouri Speech Pathology license. Additionally, they are required to maintain Basic Life Support certification and meet specific shift requirements including weekends and holidays.

Qualifications

Education
Bachelor degree

Certifications

BLS

Key Skills

Patient EvaluationTreatment PlanningRehabilitationCognitive-communication TherapyOral-pharyngeal Sensorimotor TherapyInterdisciplinary CollaborationPatient Counseling

Speech-Language Pathologist Career Context

Of the 50 active Speech-Language Pathology listings this role was benchmarked against, 4% are remote, 62% have no call, 68% require no weekends.

Speech-Language Pathology pay on WeekdayDoc is up 2.7% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

The cost-of-living index for Missouri is 90.8 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 60.1% of Missouri clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Top Speech Language Pathologist Jobs

28 matches · ranked by pay

Salary Distribution19 jobs

3
<$110k
4
$110k-130k
10
$130k-150k
2
$156k

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks23 jobs · 22 employers

401k / retirement match
83%
CME allowance
57%
Sign-on bonus
13%
Loan repayment
13%
PSLF eligible
9%

Share of similar jobs offering each benefit

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Work-life snapshot

median 3.0this job 5.1
Better work-life than 60% of Speech Language Pathology listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 6,511 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • Includes weekends

Living in Kansas City

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$251k
Typical market rent
$1,428/mo
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
92.5
State income tax
Up to 5.3%
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · Kansas City, MO-KS metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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