High Risk Infant Specialist/SLP | Feeding experience required | Fort Worth

JOB TITLE: HIGH RISK INFANT HRI SPEECH/FEEDING SPECIALIST
REPORTS TO: DIVISION DIRECTOR/CLINICAL MANAGER

JOB OVERVIEW: The HRI Speech/Feeding Specialist is a career enrichment opportunity available to qualified SLPs as determined by company needs. HRI Specialists are responsible for staffing evaluating and treating high risk infants and children within their respective division as well as the direct mentorship of treating therapists in their immediate and surrounding areas. They contribute to and uphold the company’s policies and procedures on best practice.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:
• Completes all requirements of staff therapist according to their respective discipline
• Complete a minimum number of patient visits on a weekly basis as required by the agency
• Active member in the NICU Transition Program for High Risk Infants, staffing and collaborating care for the discharges of the specified NICU
• Communicates clearly with referral coordinators to staff patients to appropriately skilled therapists and mentors as needed
• Meets monthly to collaborate with director and other designated clinicians to ensure consistency of the high risk program across the state
• Provides mentorship and guidance to CLMs/therapists to complete competency checks with Knowledge and Skills job aid
• Provides mentorship visits via face-to-face or via telehealth weekly for therapists as needed
• Provides consultations via telehealth (attending partial visits) or via phone discussions
• Provides evidenced-based resources to therapists as needed for patient care (ex. emails of therapy suggestions, handouts from past courses, handouts of normative values, etc.)
• When requested, reviews evaluation documentation and provides feedback via e-mail or consultations for corrections to support the CLM as needed
• Delivers ongoing development/mentorship of documentation (notes or evaluations) review for CLMs as needed
• Partners with CLM to identify field therapists who are qualified to mentor others (completed competency skills check) for sustainability
• Contributes content to or is primary presenter of continuing education course 1x/year (includes monthly meetings, company-wide CE presentation, or outside presentation)
• Contributes to the updating of policies, procedures, documentation changes, and the development of resources for field staff
• Attends marketing events as needed

• Participates in transition and discharge planning of high-risk infants, including staffing, restaffing, referral to peers
• Maintains and monitors program data collection monthly, reporting to director or other appropriate team members

QUALIFICATIONS:
• Graduate of an accredited program of Speech Language Pathology.
• Currently licensed and approved to practice speech therapy in the State of Texas.
• Maintains appropriate credentialing as determined by his/her national discipline organization.
• Demonstrates a broad base of clinical knowledge in his/her discipline to serve as the initial line of clinical support for therapists.
• Must be physically and legally able to operate a vehicle in the State of Texas.

•Minimum of 3 years’ experience working in the pediatric speech and language field, with experience evaluating and treating patients with varied feeding disorders
•Minimum of 1 years’ experience working with the high risk infant population (0-18 months) through evaluation, treatment, and caregiver education
•Preferred experience working in or with the NICU setting through direct or consultative means

OSHA:

Position is considered to have occasional opportunity for exposure to blood borne pathogens in the normal performance of job duties. 

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 25 pounds.

A review of this position description may have excluded some of the marginal functions of the position that are incidental to the performance of fundamental job duties. This position description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee in this position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-rel