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Speech-Language Pathologist
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 11 days ago
On-site Ventura, CA $119K – $154K Apply by Sep 14, 2026 Speech Pathology And Audiology ISTJ Healthcare
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This position is located in the Audiology & Speech Pathology Service within the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System. The duties and responsibilities are carried out throughout all clinical and other patient care areas involved with the Audiology & Speech Pathology service. The incumbent plans, conducts, and coordinates all aspects of diagnostic assessments and evaluations and therapeutic and rehabilitative services for speech, language, voice, fluency, cognitive, and swallowing disorders.
What You'll Do
- →Duties include but are not limited to: Plans, conducts, and coordinates all clinical and administrative aspects of a full range of services associated with contemporary medical speech-language pathology practice.
- →Responsible for independent diagnostic assessment of cases without limitation as to difficulty or complexity.
- →Uses instrumentation {e.g. videofluoroscopy, nasoendoscopy, stroboscopy, surface electromyography, computer technology, etc.) to observe, collect data, and measure parameters of communication and swallowing in accordance with the principles of evidencebased practice.
- →Provide rehabilitation to individuals with voice disorders including alaryngeal and tracheostomized or ventilator-dependent patients.
- →Develops and implements treatment plans designed to improve cognitive-communication processes or to compensate for cognitive-communication disability using adaptive strategies.
- →Responsible for planning, conducting, coordinating and monitoring the effectiveness and clinical outcomes of patient-centered treatment and rehabilitation services to maximize and restore to the greatest extent possible physical and social functioning.
- →Document results of evaluation, development of treatment goals and treatment plans, discharge recommendations, and education of patients and families within the medical record in the form of evaluation reports, progress notes, education notes and discharge reports.
- →Provides routine counseling and guidance to each individual Veteran concerning his/her impairment.
- →Attends regular staff meetings and interdisciplinary team meetings as appropriate, review policies and procedures, and attend in-service training.
- →Serves as a consultant to other facility personnel involving the most difficult and complex cases and is a recognized subject matter expert on matters related to speech, language, voice, fluency, cognitive and swallowing disorders.
- →Remain current with new developments in speech pathology and will maintain professional competency by reading professional journals, engaging in continuing education activities, and by communicating with other professionals in the profession and related professions.
- →Responsible for supervising and mentoring graduate students and other trainees in speech pathology, covering methods of testing and evaluation, diagnosis, treatment planning and techniques and preparation of reports.
- →Adheres to the facility's rules, policies, and procedures and to the American Speech Language Hearing Association's policies regarding professional standards and ethics.
- →The incumbent may perform ancillary assignments including program management duties on an occasional basis, where the complexity and amount of work is not substantial.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job.
- ✓Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- ✓Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
- ✓Subject to background/security investigation.
- ✓Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Must pass pre-employment physical evaluation.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1 or 2-year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
- ✓Upon completion of your trial period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
Personality Fit
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