Speech Language Pathologist Lowell & Leominster-Working with Seniors - Fallon Health

Overview

About us:

Fallon Health is a company that cares. We prioritize our members--always-making sure they get the care they need and deserve. Founded in 1977 in Worcester, Massachusetts, we deliver equitable, high-quality coordinated care and are continually rated among the nation’s top health plans for member experience, service, and clinical quality.

Fallon Health’s Summit ElderCare® is a Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly–PACE for short. PACE, an alternative to nursing home care, is a program that helps people 55 and older continue living safely at home. At Fallon Health, we believe our individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, self-expression and unique capabilities allow us to better serve our members. We embrace and encourage differences in age, race, ethnicity, gender identity and expression, physical and mental ability, sexual orientation, socio-economic status and other characteristics that make people unique. 

Today, guided by our mission of improving health and inspiring hope, we strive to be the leading provider of government-sponsored health insurance programs—including Medicare, Medicaid, and PACE— in the region. 

Brief summary of purpose:

Responsible for the provision of speech therapy services to SE participants. Performs assessments of participants’ physical and cognitive abilities and provides treatment as indicated. Participates in care planning and interdisciplinary team meetings as requested by Lead therapist.  Provides all services in accordance with applicable regulations as well as FCHP and SE policies and procedures.  

Responsibilities

Primary Job Responsibilities: 

• Assures that all speech therapy assessments are completed and documented in a timely manner.
• Works in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team (IDT), participants and caregivers to meet participants’ speech therapy needs.
• Assures that problems, goals and interventions related to speech therapy are documented in the participant’s record, communicated in a timely manner and evaluated at appropriate intervals.
• Provides treatment to participants in their home setting as needed.
• Evaluates needs of EOL/AD participants; provides education, instruction to participant and/or family, consistent with their plan of care. 
• Provides education to participants and caregivers to allow them to carry out therapeutic activities at home when indicated.
• Participates in rehabilitation services related data collection and quality surveillance as required.
• Documents all direct care encounters in the participants’ record to facilitate submission of claims and diagnostic data to FCHP systems.
• Attends regular staff meetings and other meetings as assigned.
• Performs all other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Education:

• Graduate of an accredited Speech Language Pathology program accredited by ASHA.

License/Certifications:

• Licensed as a Speech Language pathologist in Massachusetts.  Certificate of Clinical Competence. 
• CPR certification or willingness to obtain certification within 60 days of hire.   

Experience: 

• At least one year experience working with a frail or elderly population in a health care setting.

COVID-19 Vaccination:

With the end of the Global Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic, Fallon Health no longer requires all employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 except for employees who are in jobs that under state and federal laws, regulations and policies are required to be vaccinated and/or they are in Member/participant facing positions.

Fallon Health provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

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