Grow your career internally at Elara Caring, our best talent comes from within!

Job Description:

Speech Language Pathologist

At Elara Caring, we care where you are and believe the best place for your care is where you live. We know there’s no place like home, and that’s why our teams continue to provide high-quality care to more than 60,000 patients each day in their preferred home setting. Wherever our patients call home and wherever they are on their health journey, we care. Each team member has a part to play in this mission. This means you have countless ways to make a difference as a Speech-Language Pathologist. Being a part of something this great, starts by carrying out our mission every day through your true calling: developing an amazing team of compassionate and dedicated healthcare providers.

To continue to be an industry pioneer in delivering unparalleled care, we need a Speech-Language Pathologist with commitment and compassion. Are you one of them? If so, apply today!

Why Join the Elara Caring mission?

Work in a collaborative environment.
Be rewarded with a unique opportunity to make a difference
Competitive compensation package
Tuition reimbursement for full-time staff and continuing education opportunities for all employees at no cost
Opportunities for advancement
Comprehensive insurance plans for medical, dental, and vision benefits
401(K) with employer match
Paid time off, paid holidays, family, and pet bereavement
Pet insurance

As a Speech-Language Pathologist, you’ll contribute to our success in the following ways:

Promotes Elara Caring’s philosophy, mission statement and administrative policies to ensure quality of care.
Evaluates the Speech-Language pathologist patient to determine the rehabilitation needs and potential for achievement and develops a plan of care in accordance with the findings.
Admits the patient and assesses speech-language therapy and all other needs according to OASIS and PPS regulatory guidelines. Makes the initial therapy evaluation visit and re-evaluates the patient’s speech language therapy needs during each visit. Makes follow-up assessments according to OASIS and PPS regulatory guidelines.
Initiates plan for patient safety, using the patient, family, and community resources.
Communicates significant findings, problems, and changes in condition or environment to the appropriate supervisor, the physician, and other team members involved with patient care.
Participates in the implementation and development of the Plan of Care to ensure quality and continuity of care and proper discharge planning. Verifies the Plan of Care prior to each visit and provides care according to physician’s orders, assessment data, and established standards and guidelines.
Writes physician orders to cover additional visits and changes to the Plan of Care, per agency policy.
Incorporates patient care goals established in the Plan of Care, into therapy care, as evidenced by documentation in therapy notes. Initiates and revises the Plan of Care in response to identified patient care issues.
Performs direct Speech-Language pathology services in accordance with accepted standards of practice and certified by the patient’s physician.
Selects diagnostic and therapeutic materials appropriate to patient needs. Instructs and provides patients and/or their caregiver in the home therapy program providing modification and clarification when necessary.
Assures clinical notes indicate continuing communication and coordination of services with physician, other staff, and disciplines.
Ensures that all therapy notes, supply log/visit logs are accurate and turned into the office according to office policy.
Physically demanding, high stress environment
Full range of body motion including handling, lifting and transfer of patients
Potentially work irregular hours including call hours if applicable

What is Required?

Master’s degree from an accredited educational program in Language Pathology
Current, unrestricted SLP license in the state of work
Minimum one (1) year of experience as a SLP in a clinical care setting
Able and willing to travel within branch/office coverage area.
Must have a dependable vehicle, valid driver’s license, and current auto insurance in accordance with state laws.
Must be able and willing to travel 50%
Able to sit, stand, bend, lift and move intermittently and be able to lift 50-100

The low end of the compensation range is $81,000 to the high end up to $111,000 annually, which can include additional earnings for work beyond quota, bonuses, on-call, or other performance-based compensation variables.
Elara Caring determines compensation based on education, job related knowledge, skills, training, and experience. Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several U.S. geographic markets and may vary depending on location.
You will report to the Branch Director, Clinical Manager, Clinical Supervisor or designee.

You will report to the Branch Director, Clinical Manager, Clinical Supervisor or designee.

Elara Caring provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), race, color, age (40 and older), national origin, religion, disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender reassignment, protected veteran status, or any other basis prohibited under applicable federal, state or local law.  

Speech Language Pathologist-PRN