Travel Speech Language Pathologist

This travel Speech Language Pathologist job in Glendive, MT with Advantis Medical is a 13-week travel Speech Language Pathologist contract at Eastern Montana Veterans Home. This role pays $2,416 per week and follows a Days shift with a 5x8 schedule. In this travel Speech Language Pathologist job, you will support patient care through specialty-specific clinical services, perform assessments and treatments within your scope of practice, document patient progress, operate relevant medical equipment, and collaborate with physicians and the broader care team to help deliver quality patient outcomes. Advantis Medical supports travel clinicians with personalized recruiter guidance, fast and straightforward onboarding, complimentary licensing support, and benefits that start on Day 1.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate speech, language, cognitive-communication, and swallowing function and establish individualized treatment plans
• Deliver skilled therapy for communication and swallowing disorders across the assigned caseload
• Assess and manage dysphagia, including diet-texture recommendations and participation in instrumental swallow studies when assigned
• Educate patients, families, and caregivers on communication and safe-swallowing strategies

Eastern Montana Veterans Home - Glendive, MT Eastern Montana Veterans Home is a state-owned, 80-bed skilled intermediate care facility in Glendive, Montana, managed by Eduro Healthcare. Its care setting includes short-term rehabilitation and long-term residential care.

• Intermediate care supports residents who need help with eating, bathing, dressing or toileting, including people whose cognitive condition limits independent activity or require supervision.
• Skilled care serves residents whose needs require licensed nursing or skilled rehabilitation, with physician certification of that level of care.
• Occupational therapy is part of the home's rehabilitation service, with treatment plans developed for individual residents.
• Sixteen beds form a Special Care Unit for residents with dementia, within the home's overall 80-bed capacity.