Description

Bermuda Hospitals Board ensures the highest in quality health care through service excellence, education and leadership.  We seek qualified, highly motivated, and experienced professionals to work in a supportive but demanding environment.

Vision:
to pursue excellence through improvement, to make Bermuda proud

Key responsibilities include:

• Meeting productivity standards set by the department for direct patient contact and other related non-patient contact duties
• Performing an appropriate assessment on all in and/or outpatients following referral; use objective clinical measures to identify problems and formulate treatment plans based on realistic stated goals; conduct specific therapeutic interventions as indicated
• Utilizes diplomacy in supervising and delegating specific written treatment plans to Allied Health Services aides, assistants, and/or students
• Observing and evaluating effectiveness of treatment; communicate patient progress or lack of thereof to multidisciplinary team.
• Maintaining patient documentation using the appropriate paperwork and Electronic Medical Records systems, ensuring documentation meets current standards and policies; prepares specific clinical reports as requested
• Keeping accurate, timely statistics of both direct and indirect time spent
• Promoting the team approach through participation in patient care rounds and discharge planning meetings
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; liaison with other members of the multidisciplinary team to ensure continuity of care
• Contributes to improvements in Speech and Language Pathology services in their assigned area(s) through programme development and continuous quality improvements.

Requirements

Qualifications & Registration required:

• Master of Arts (MA) or Science (MS) degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders/ Speech-Language Pathology or equivalent, with certification, if applicable, in jurisdiction of training
• One (1) to two (2) years postgraduate experience in a Speech Language Pathology environment, preferably within a hospital 
• Local registration to practice with the Council for Allied Health Professions (CAHP) and meet all re-registration requirements
• Must be proficient in the Microsoft Office Suite

Salary: 

$114,769.46 - $123,543.44 per annum / $63.0601 - $67.8761 per hour (BP29-31) (Bermuda dollar is on par with USD)

 Schedule: 

Allied Health Services participates in a six-day rota that includes evenings, weekends and public holidays. 

EMPLOYEE BENEFITS: 

(a)                 Paid Vacation leave - 18 days

(b)                 Pension

(c)                 Medical / Life Insurance

(d)                 Paid Sick leave - 6 weeks

(e)                 Relocation Allowance - $5,000

(f)                  Temporary Accommodation - 3 months