Home Health ST - PRN WEEKENDS
Austin
Job Description Job Description Description: Are you a strong finisher who is energized by getting things right?
Do you love engaging with people and take pride in getting everyone taken care of?
Is being a part of a fast paced team with lots of moving parts exciting to you?
Halcyon Home is hiring a WEEKENDS ONLY PRN home health field ST to support our growing geriatric home health population, in Austin and surrounding area.
Come join our quickly growing locally owned home health company! We are looking for a dedicated ST with a heart for the elderly to join our home health team in the Austin area. We offer flexible scheduling, competitive pay and wonderful team support.
You will provide home health visits to our patients in both community and residential settings. A minimum of one year of home health experience is preferred, along with a proven ability to manage a fast-paced, independent work schedule. Knowledge of Kinnser/WellSky software is a plus!
About Us
Halcyon Home is a fast-growing, central Texas-owned home health, hospice, and home care company. We emphasize hospitality and compassion to encourage positive patient outcomes for our refined, aging clients. We were voted Best in Home Health/Hospice four years running and Best in Home Care three years running by the Senior Resource Guide. Come Join our team!
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Medical specialties:
Geriatrics
Home Health
Schedule:
Weekends as needed
Experience:
Home health: 1 year (Required)
License/Certification:
Physical Therapy License (Required)
Requirements: Job Summary:
A registered professional who provides therapeutic techniques for the rehabilitation of patients with speech, language, hearing, oral motor, swallowing, and cognitive disorders. Provides coordinated care to patients of all age groups. Plans, implements, and evaluates patient care plans to restore or maintain patient well-being. Participates in the coordination of care.
Job Qualifications:
Education: Masters or doctoral degree in speech-language pathology from an accredited college or university.
Licensure: Active, state license as a speech-language pathologist, or if licensure does not apply, meets the requirements
listed in 42 CFR §484.115(n). Current driver’s license.
Experience: One year of experience as an acute care or rehabilitation setting; home health preferred.
Skills: Therapy skills as defined as generally accepted standards of practice. Good interpersonal skills. Proof of current CPR certification
Environmental and Working Conditions:
Works in patients’ homes in various conditions; possible exposure to blood, bodily fluids, and infectious diseases; ability to work a flexible schedule; ability to travel locally; some exposure to unpleasant weather.
Physical and Mental Effort:
Requires working under some stressful conditions to meet deadlines and patient needs, and to meet patient and family
individualized psychosocial needs.
Essential Functions Evaluation
Performs ongoing clinical assessment, including OASIS assessments, at appropriate time points to identify patient needs, determine level of functioning, and appropriateness of the patient for home care.
Develops and evaluates the plan of care in partnership with the patient, representative (if any), and caregiver(s).
Prepares and completes clinical notes, phone orders, and other clinical record documentation on an ongoing basis and in a timely manner.
Analyzes patient needs and provides appropriate care that is ordered by physician as indicated in the plan of care.
Revises the POC based on evaluation and ongoing assessment data.
Provides therapeutic treatments for speech, language, cognitive, and swallowing disorders with appropriate tests and measurements. Provides services that are ordered by the physician as indicated in the plan of care.
Applies concepts of infection control and universal precautions in coordinating or performing patient care activities to prevent contamination and transmission of disease.
Accepts clinical assignments that are consistent with education and competence to care for patients. Provides supervision and guidance to home health aides as appropriate.
Communicates with all physicians involved in the plan of care and other health care practitioners related to the current plan of care.
Provides patient, caregiver, and family counseling.
Provides patient and caregiver education.
Uses effective interpersonal relations and communication skills; facilitates the use of these skills by other team members to achieve desirable outcomes.
Meets mandatory continuing education requirements of the Agency and licensing board.
Participates in the Agency’s QAPI program
Participates in the Agency sponsored in-service trainings