SLP Clinical Facilitator, Externship

The mission of the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences is the development of professional health care practitioners through innovation, individualized, and quality classroom, clinical, and distance education.

GENERAL SUMMARY

The SLP Clinical Facilitator - Externship is a state licensed and ASHA-certified speech language pathologist who educates, mentors and supervises students performing client evaluations, screenings, and treatment to patients (adult and pediatric) attending the USAHS MS-SLP micro-externship experiences. Clinical Facilitators for Externship review and collaborate on the design and implementation of clinical micro-externship experiences and assess the clinical performance and documentation skills of students in these micro-experiences. Clinical Facilitators for Externship are required to attend any essential training opportunities offered by the program.

The qualified candidate must have an entry-level master’s degree or higher along with appropriate state license and ASHA Certificate of Clinical Competence.  At least 2 years of hands-on experience is required in a patient care setting in the profession, and completion of the ASHA requirement for supervision of graduate interns.  The successful candidate will have excellent oral communication and organizational skills, be responsive to adult student needs, and be able to work collaboratively in a team environment.

This is a part-time, hourly appointment, not to exceed 25 hours per week. Weekly work schedules are defined in cooperation with program leaders and faculty.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Prepares the physical clinical environment to ensure both students and clients are ready for sessions.
• Organizes and maintains micro-externship program model; contributes to the review and development of micro-externship experiences as applicable.
• Teaches and models clinical communication, professionalism, and collaboration.
• Interacts frequently with students to provide direction, guidance, and feedback.

• Assists with administration, scoring, written reporting of screeners and assessments, as well as therapy sessions.
• Communicates with students and families on screening, assessment and treatment activities.

• Monitors student performance and progress with clinical skills development; provides feedback; and facilitates student participation in learning activities.
• Assesses student performance on assessment, intervention, interaction and personal qualities.
• Supervises, assesses, and provides feedback to students regarding proper protocols for clinical documentation.
• Reports student grades at end of micro-externship experience / term to the MS-SLP program.
• Communicates with MS-SLP faculty to ensure consistent content delivery, student concerns, and to recommend changes for upcoming semesters.
• Participates in meetings with the MS-SLP program.
• Serves as student-to-university liaison.
• Upholds student and part-time faculty handbook policies.
• Promotes professionalism by modeling such behaviors.
• Self-evaluates clinical supervision performance; sets goals for improvement in collaboration with program leadership and faculty.

OTHER DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

May perform other duties and responsibilities that management may deem necessary from time to time.

POSITION IN ORGANIZATION

Reports to: Director of SLP Clinical Education Placement Team

Positions Supervised:  Not applicable