Speech Language Pathologist/ SLP/ST: Medical Facilities of America

Speech Therapist opportunity in Roanoke Virginia!

Opportunity for Speech Language Pathologist to join LifeWorks Rehab in providing comprehensive, progressive inpatient rehabilitation service to patients who have had joint replacement or other surgery, experienced a stroke, or been injured in an accident. As one of our skilled professionals, you will work with the patient, the patient’s family and the physician to develop a complete, individualized recovery plan. You will then follow the plan to help motivate patients to gain the skills needed to return home and enjoy life again.

As a LifeWorks Rehab therapist, you will evaluate residents, develop effective treatment plans and record treatment and charges, obtain approval for service from the referring physician and treat residents according to the physician’s treatment plan, screen residents for potential benefit of ST intervention, and participate in discharge planning.

Spingtree Health & Rehab Center is a 120-bed post acute care facility located in Roanoke, Virginia. This beautiful facility meets the needs of both long term and short term patients, but is known as a rehab center in the community due to its high post-acute census and high rate of patients returning to home. Small enough to be friendly, but busy with a high rehab census, this facility offers associates a fast-paced and interesting case load.

LifeWorks Rehab is the rehabilitation therapy sector of Medical Facilities of America. This is a comprehensive, progressive inpatient rehabilitation service for patients who have had joint replacement or other surgery, experienced a stroke, or been injured in an accident. Our skilled professionals work with the patient, the patient’s family and the physician to develop a complete, individualized recovery plan. Our highly skilled staff members follow the plan to help motivate patients to gain the skills needed to return home and enjoy life again. With LifeWorks Rehab, patients can expect a faster, more complete recovery than they would receive from outpatient or home therapy. In rehabilitation, the most important staff skill is the ability to motivate and instill hope in our patients. We seek out committed employees with the passion necessary to display these skills and then provide our staff with training they need to hone their skills. Our comprehensive hiring and continuing education practices give us staff members who are highly educated, greatly skilled, and deeply committed to our patients. While LifeWorks Rehab offers some of the best rehabilitation equipment available, we never stop looking for new options to help our patients recover faster. We constantly research technological advances in the rehabilitation field to keep our equipment and therapeutic methods state-of-the-art.