Speech Language Pathologists are dynamic, fun, patient focused professionals who use their knowledge, skills and energy to carry out the sacred task of helping others to improve their ability to function - thereby bettering lives.
Required Behaviors: • As you go about fulfilling this mission, your work habits and work relationships should embody SJRMC's values. These values are our culture, our identity as an organization: Sacred Trust, Personal Reverence, Thoughtful Anticipation, Team Accountability, and Creative Vitality ask more of us than merely completing some list of tasks. Our values ask for a deeper level of commitment, and what is asked of us we freely give because we believe in our mission.
Required Qualifications: • Current New Mexico SLP license, either CFY or CCC • Sufficient previous experience to perform duties • Physical demands - refer to rehab department description of physical demands
Preferred Qualifications: • Modified Barium Swallow Study experience • BLS/CPR
Duties and Responsibilities: • Interpretation of referrals & orders to check for appropriateness, indications, and contraindications • Initial evaluations / Discharge summaries / Re-evaluations / Daily treatments: Performed & documented in a timely manner • Education and instruction as indicated, including, but not limited to: patient, family, other staff, or follow-up facilities • Transportation of patients as needed • Maintain, gather, clean, set-up all equipment per facility policies • Daily recordkeeping, including (but not limited to) evaluations, daily treatment notes, discharge notes, daily charges, and all communication/education provided (per facility / department policy)? • Other duties as assigned • Each employee is responsible for implementing SJRMC's Service Standards into their daily work:
Safety, Courtesy, Effectiveness, and Stewardship
Physical Demands and Environmental Work Conditions: • ALL Rehab Department jobs may place heavy physical demands on the employee. The amount of time that the employee is exposed to these demands will fluctuate, as there are uncontrollable variables inherent in healthcare: patient's height and weight, patient's level of cooperation and strength, specific clinical needs, etc.
Physical Activities: • All Rehab Department jobs may require lifting / pushing / pulling varying weights, may exceed two hundred (200) pounds • Activities may include intermittent or prolonged: standing, walking, sitting, talking, hearing, using the hands to finger and feel, pushing, pulling, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, reaching with arms, and smelling • Repetitive motions may also be required, such as: wrist / hand movements, grasping, and finger dexterity (as in typing, writing, faxing, filing papers, etc.)
Work Environment: • The job requires exposure to the following environmental conditions: wet, humid conditions (not the weather), working near moving or mechanical parts, fumes or airborne particles, risk of electrical shock, risk of vibration • The noise level will vary from very quiet to very loud
Sensory Requirements: • The employee will need to be able to hear: o alarms on equipment / fire alarms / overhead announcements o patients / families verbal discussions o instructions / feedback from other healthcare providers • The employee will need to be able to: o See and focus on close-up and distant objects o Distinguish colors o Have intact: peripheral vision and depth perception
San Juan Regional Medical Center is a community owned and operated hospital located in the beautiful San Juan River Valley in northwest New Mexico. A non-profit hospital serving the Four Corners area of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and Utah, we have a rich heritage dating back to before New Mexico was a state. In 1910, two physicians, Dr. G.W. Sammons and Dr. A.M. Smith, saw a community need for quality healthcare close to home. They started an eight-bed hospital so patients would not have to travel the treacherous 50 miles to Durango, Colorado. Today, the focus on serving the community with quality healthcare services remains, although our hospital has grown into a 198 bed, level III trauma center including state-of-the-art operating suites and 165 private patient rooms with fresh air balconies. As a 340B hospital, SJRMC is committed to good stewardship principles to enhance services and care for our patients.
New Mexico has been named number 3 in the nation for best places to work as a nurse by WalletHub.
As a community owned and operated hospital, we are proud to provide excellent care to our community. Here in the Four Corners, life matters. Family matters. Community matters. Better matters. YOU matter.
San Juan Regional Medical Center, a large nonprofit hospital, has a rich history and reputation of excellence. We are committed to providing the best healthcare in the community that we serve. It is because of our employees that we get the opportunity to provide the best care within the Four Corners. From nursing, support staff, to administration, we strive to provide our employees with a safe and healthy work environment that cultivates independence, teamwork, initiative and opportunities for growth through personal and professional support, training and development. Our compassionate employees come with a servant's heart, like the many previous generations of San Juan Regional Medical Center. This is why better is our mission.