**Employment Type:** Full time **Shift:** **Description:** At MercyOne, health care is more than just a doctor’s visit or a place to go when you’re in need of medical attention. Our Mission is based on improving the health of our communities – that means not only when you are sick but keeping you well. Located in Newton, Iowa, the county seat of Jasper County, MercyOne Newton is situated just 30 miles east of Des Moines along Interstate 80, the nation’s only east/west transcontinental highway. Over the past two decades, MercyOne Newton has built a reputation for enhancing healthcare in rural America by expanding and upgrading its facilities, adding new physicians, and implementing advanced technology. With 48 beds and 200,000 square feet of space, MercyOne Newton serves the local community with compassion and dedication. The hospital’s attached 50,000-square-foot medical office building houses local physician practices and a physical medicine and rehabilitation center. MercyOne Newton is proud to be one of the largest employers in Jasper County, alongside the local school system and county government, and is known for its strong Iowa work ethic, commitment to quality patient care, and community loyalty. Want to learn more about MercyOne Newton? Click here: MercyOne Newton Newton, Iowa (IA) Area Hospitals, MercyOne Newton (https://www.mercyone.org/newton/) **Position Overview:** Provides clinical Speech Pathology services to adults and pediatric caseloads at acute, skilled, outpatient, home health, and contract levels of care. **Essential Job Functions:** + Conducts diagnostic assessments for communication disorders, including speech, language, fluency, voice, cognition/memory, and swallowing. + Develops treatment plans and intervention strategies based on evaluation results. + Provides therapy services for remediation of communication disorders and/or dysphagia. + Educates patients and families on communication disorders and/or dysphagia. + Recommends and ensures appropriate discharge planning regarding communication disorders and/or dysphagia. + Performs operational duties such as patient scheduling, completion of patient notes and reports, maintaining patient files, completing patient charges, and recording hours worked and mileage. + Conducts continuing education and in-service activities for departmental staff, hospital personnel, contract agencies, and community groups as requested. + Demonstrates positive, professional interactions with patients, visitors, families, staff members, and medical staff. + Assumes responsibility for maintaining and developing professional skills relevant to the job. + Adheres to Skiff Medical Center and departmental policies and procedures. + Performs additional duties as assigned. + Coordinates with the public, receives patients and guests, ascertains their needs, and appropriately directs them; assists patients, families, referring physicians, and third-party carriers. + Schedules patients for evaluations, consultations, and treatments. + Familiar with various types of medical insurance and obtains pre-certification when necessary. + Utilizes computer systems for e-mail, calendars, and patient documentation. + Maintains knowledge of department goals, standards, and policies, and ensures smooth communication with appropriate staff. + Demonstrates professional behavior, including excellent customer service skills and maintaining appropriate workplace conduct. + Handles patient and personnel information with strict confidentiality, ensuring the integrity and reputation of others. + Maintains CPR certification. **Education:** + Master's Degree in Speech Pathology from an accredited institution. **Experience:** + No experience required if qualifications and licensure are met. **Licensure:** + Maintain Iowa state Speech licensure and meet professional education standards. **Shift:** Full Time Days **Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion** Trinity Health is one of the largest not-for-profit, Catholic healthcare systems in the nation. Built on the foundation of our Mission and Core Values, we integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion in all that we do. Our colleagues have different lived experiences, customs, abilities, and talents. Together, we become our best selves. A diverse and inclusive workforce provides the most accessible and equitable care for those we serve. Trinity Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other status protected by law. Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion Trinity Health is a family of 115,000 colleagues and nearly 26,000 physicians and clinicians across 25 states. Because we serve diverse populations, our colleagues are trained to recognize the cultural beliefs, values, traditions, language preferences, and health practices of the communities that we serve and to apply that knowledge to produce positive health outcomes. We also recognize that each of us has a different way of thinking and perceiving our world and that these differences often lead to innovative solutions. Our dedication to diversity includes a unified workforce (through training and education, recruitment, retention, and development), commitment and accountability, communication, community partnerships, and supplier diversity. EOE including disability/veteran