Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP)Houston, TX: Pediatric Home Health

As the SLP, you will provide assessments and treatment for pediatric patients birth to 21 years of age in their home or community environment. RiverKids Pediatric Home Health loves kids. Our mission is to provide the highest quality of pediatric therapy services to children in need. We are a therapy only company.

This listing is for Houston, TX, but we staff SLPs where they live all across Texas! We also have opportunities in Austin, San Antonio, Dallas-Fort Worth, El Paso, Amarillo and surrounding areas. Reach out if you're interested in working with us—we look forward to hearing from you!

Check out the video below to learn more about working at RiverKids!

We have approximately 10% cancellation rate, which is fairly typical for home health. Note that full-time SLPs must maintain average of 25 visits per week in order to retain full-time benefits, regardless of cancellations. So this may mean scheduling above 25 visits per week in order to account for cancellations.

Full time employees are eligible for:

• 401K plan-after 12 mos of employment with a minimum of 1000 visits during this time; Riverkids with match up to 4% with no vesting period
• HSA
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Voluntary Life and AD&D
• Short term disability
• Long term disability

Number of SLPs at the company (approximate): 218

Annual turnover rate for SLPs (last 12 months): 11%

Percent of SLPs at company 2+ years: 33.5%

Therapists set their own schedules with the family. Most patients are seen 2x/week. Most therapists work Mon—Fri.

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PTO accrues based on completed sessions and rate of accrual depends on your tenure with the company. New employees begin accruing PTO at rate of 2min 19sec per completed visit. Employees with 3+ years at RiverKids will accrue PTO at rate of 3min 28sec per completed visit.

There are no sick or personal days outside of PTO but an employee can take any time off they need without pay.

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If full time you need 25 visits/week on average for a quarter to maintain benefits. For part time you need 20/visits per week on average for the quarter. PRN must complete at least 4 visits per week and are expected to do make up visits. Maintaining at least 80% Plan of Care recommended frequency of sessions is considered acceptable.

No cap, this is up to the individual SLP

Not required but preferred skills include:

• Experience with feeding
• Experience with augmentative communication
• Ability to speak multiple languages

ASHA CCCs Required: No
State Licenses Required: Texas
Additional Qualifications: None

You will be in and out of many homes within a typical day. Some light to moderate lifting may be required at times to carry your therapy supplies or help transfer a child.

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Accepts CFs? Yes
% of SLPs in company who are CFS: 10%
CF supervision provided? Yes
Training program: A clinical fellow will get exposure to feeding, augmentative communication, and a diverse medical caseload in most scenarios. They will be assigned a CCC SLP as their supervisor. This supervisor will be experienced in all of those areas of expertise. It is a great opportunity to learn in a setting that provides a "box of chocolates" so to speak of a caseload. You never really know what you are going to be working with until you step through that door even if the physician diagnoses "developmental delay". This is both fun and challenging. Home health is a personal setting where you establish a relationship with families. This too is a great opportunity for a clinical fellow-as home programs and family education are a key part of what SLPs do but don't always get a lot of exposure to in other settings.