Are you a speech-language therapist looking for more independence?
If you are a speech-language therapist, you most likely work with children. According to ASHA, over 50% of SLTs and SLPs work in an educational setting, either in early intervention, preschools, or K-12 schools. Just about 20% of SLTs are in private practice, and over 15% work in nonresidential healthcare facilities. The overwhelming majority of speech patients are children or people with long-term disabilities.
That means there is a dearth of speech-language therapists available for adults recovering from speech difficulties caused by brain trauma or illnesses like a stroke or cancer.
At FeldCare Connects, we connect entrepreneurial speech-language pathologists and in-home medical care clinics so that patients needing speech therapy can access the help they need.
Does your pediatric speech-language pathology experience translate to geriatrics?
Pediatric SLPs usually work with kids trying to master particular speech-language impairments. These children are likely also learning to master a language – along with its specific pronunciations.
This work translates into speech impairments like acquired apraxia, which many stroke or brain trauma patients experience. Your pediatric speech therapy experience can also assist with additional impairments caused by aphasia or dysarthria.
In pediatric and geriatric speech therapy, you and your patient tackle motor speech issues, work on the brain/motor connection and even deal with language confusion. This happens both in developing brains and brains that have experienced trauma.
If working with older patients sounds interesting to you, keep reading!
How does FeldCare Connects give SLTs workplace independence?
So, how does a referral service provide independence to SLTs? In short, when you connect with FeldCare, you gain access to contract work. That means you have the choice to accept a patient – or not. You can choose your schedule, pick in what area you’d like to work, and even select your involvement in patient care. Here are five benefits FeldCare Connects can provide SLTs:
1. Ownership of your time.
When working as an independent contractor in the FeldCare network, you control how many patients you take on, when you take them on, and what your day-to-day schedule looks like. If you are already employed full-time or just looking for summer work, you can create a schedule that works with the time you’ve allotted to contract work.
2. Patient care options
Even if you are an active, full-time SLP, you have options for what kind of care you want to provide to referral patients. You can choose only to do evaluations and discharges, decide to take on an assistant role, accept the entirety of a patient’s care, or go on hiatus and accept no patients for a period. It’s up to you.
3. Additional support
Jumping into freelance work can feel like a lot to handle alone. Fortunately, with FeldCare Connects, you aren’t alone. Our team is here to support you, answer questions, and help make sure you file paperwork on time. While you are still an independent contractor, our support staff is ready to help with any questions or concerns.
4. Selecting where you work
Right now, FeldCare Connects works with healthcare agencies and SLPs in Florida, Texas, and California. If you are in one of the listed states, you can determine in which area you’d like to provide in-home healthcare, and our system will automatically serve you what is available in your chosen zone. It’s simple and allows you to decide where you want to work.
5. Access to prequalified healthcare providers
We prequalify all of our therapists and healthcare providers. Just as you as an SLT need the appropriate training, licensing, and certification for providing in-home care, so must the healthcare provider. The healthcare providers in our network have the proper licensing and have shared information about their company so that you can make an informed decision before choosing to work with them.
FeldCare Connects is designed to make it simple for you to provide in-home speech care to those who need it. If you are looking to take on some extra work, hoping for summer patients, or considering going fully freelance, sign up for our referral network.
Reach out to FeldCare Connects to kickstart your journey in home health now! Either call us at (818) 926-9057, or go to feldcareconnects.com/clinicians
