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A cover letter is required for consideration for this position and should be attached as the first page of your resume. The cover letter should address your specific interest in the position and outline skills and experience that directly relate to this position.
Mission Statement
Michigan Medicine improves the health of patients, populations and communities through excellence in education, patient care, community service, research and technology development, and through leadership activities in Michigan, nationally and internationally. Our mission is guided by our Strategic Principles and has three critical components; patient care, education and research that together enhance our contribution to society.
Responsibilities*
- Evaluate children with speech, language, voice, cognitive-communicative and feeding/swallowing disorders. Design and implement treatment programs to facilitate improved communication and swallowing skills.
- Counsel patients and their families regarding communication and swallowing development, impairment, and opportunities for stimulating improvement.
- Treatment of children enrolled in the STEPS? Autism Treatment program, including data management and development of programming materials, documentation of clinical findings, adhering to regulatory agency and insurance requirements.
- Provide documentation of evaluation data, test/re-test data and speech-language progress, in accordance with insurance and regulatory agency requirements.
- Provide assistance to medical and rehabilitation team members regarding methods for facilitating a patient?s understanding and use of language to achieve maximum understanding of medical information and rehabilitation techniques.
- Participate in staff meetings regarding individual patients with physicians, nurses, insurance representative and allied health professionals.
- Maintain departmental and institutional standards of clinical productivity.
Required Qualifications*
- M.A. or M.S. In Speech-Language Pathology
- Current licensure as a Speech-Language Pathologist in the State of Michigan is necessary.
- A Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC) awarded by the American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA), or, eligibility to initiate a Clinical Fellowship
- Excellent communication skills, verbal and written
- Ability to work effectively with medical and allied health professionals within an interdisciplinary team
Desired Qualifications*
- Previous experience with assessment/treatment of children with complex swallowing and/or communication disorders
Work Locations
Pediatric Rehabilitation Center-Commonwealth
Background Screening
Michigan Medicine conducts background screening and pre-employment drug testing on job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent job offer and may use a third party administrator to conduct background screenings. Background screenings are performed in compliance with the Fair Credit Report Act. Pre-employment drug testing applies to all selected candidates, including new or additional faculty and staff appointments, as well as transfers from other U-M campuses.
Application Deadline
Job openings are posted for a minimum of seven calendar days. The review and selection process may begin as early as the eighth day after posting. This opening may be removed from posting boards and filled anytime after the minimum posting period has ended.
U-M EEO/AA Statement
The University of Michigan is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.
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