"Speech-Language Pathologist"

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.

• 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.
• 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:

• A Master's degree in Speech-Language Pathology.
• Current licensure as a Speech-Language Pathologist in the State of Michigan.
• A Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC) awarded by the American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA), or eligibility to initiate a Clinical Fellowship.
• This classification requires Primary Source Verification.

Desired Qualifications:

• Excellent communication skills, verbal and written.
• Ability to work effectively with medical and allied health professionals within an interdisciplinary team.
• Previous experience in pediatric neurological rehabilitation, stuttering and feeding/swallowing disorders strongly desired.

This position is covered under the collective bargaining agreement between the U-M and the United Michigan Medicine Allied Professionals (UMMAP), which contains and settles all matters with respect to wages, benefits, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment.

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.

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.

The University of Michigan is an equal employment opportunity employer.