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f you’re an experienced speech language pathologist (SLP) and would like to work in California, take a look at this traveling position at one of MedPro Healthcare Staffing’s top healthcare clients in the Golden State.

You’ll need a current California license to practice as an SLP (or be “proactively” in the process of applying for it; contact us for more information). You’ll also need current certification in CPR and you must have CCCs.

Call us today to learn more about this position (and to learn what California city this assignment is located in).

Some things about California that you probably didn’t know:

• The state has the highest as well as the lowest points in the contiguous 48 states. What’s more, both are within just 100 miles of each other. Death Valley’s Bad Water area is 282 feet below sea level while Mt. Whitney’s highest peak reaches 14,495 feet above sea level (that’s almost three miles, by the way).
• California’s Inyo National Forest is the location of the oldest living species of pine cone; some of the trees there are believed to be more than 4,600 years old.
• The General Sherman Tree, located in the state’s Sequoia National Forest, is by volume the largest known living single stem tree on the planet.
• The Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles is the largest outdoor amphitheater in the world.
• Various estimates put one out of every 10 or even as many as one out of every eight people who live in the United States as living in California.
• Many of them live in two of the top 10-most populous cities in the country, Los Angeles and San Diego.
• It’s believed that more than half a million detectable seismic tremors occur each year in California.
• Due to tectonic plate movement, geologists estimate that Los Angeles is moving eastward at about 1/5 of an inch each year.
• Reno, NV is actually further west than San Diego. (Take a look at a map of the United States if you don’t believe us.)
• San Bernardino County, its westernmost edge located about 40 miles east from downtown Los Angeles, is the largest county in the United States, encompassing three million acres.
• Put 85 of the world’s smallest countries together and the resulting land mass will still be smaller than California.
• The state’s Central Valley, at 75 miles wide and 430 miles long (north to south), is arguably the richest farming area in the history of the planet.
• Enough strawberries were grown in California in 1997 to circle the globe 15 times.

Want to experience California for yourself? If you’re a speech language pathologist with at least one or two years of professional experience, send your resume/CV to a recruiter at MedPro Healthcare Staffing today. We look forward to hearing from you.

August 19th, 2012 is “World Photography Day” and MedPro wants your help!

We are calling on all of our traveling heathcare professionals to send us your breathtaking, wacky, or down-right interesting photos you have collected on assignment.  The theme is “Travel” and we will collect the photos on our Facebook page, so be sure to to post yours by August, 17th 2012 for a chance to win a $50 American Express Gift Card!

It’s a big world out there (and we want to see it), so be sure to submit your photo today!

The Fine Print: Must have a current signed contract with MedPro Staffing. Open to employees in the United States only. Pictures must be posted no later than 5:00PM on August 17, 2012. Winner will be announced on August, 19, 2012.

If you work as a traveling speech therapist you’ll build your skills in a great variety of areas, areas you may not have been able to if you stayed put in one hospital or clinic for several months or years.

Want an example? An at LifeTips.com article mentions that a traveling speech therapist might very well come across a patient presenting the extremely rare – but not unheard of – condition of Foreign Accent Syndrome, in which an individual suddenly starts to speak in a foreign accent. The patient still speaks in his or her native language, but just with a foreign accent.

“Imagine,” the article states, “the rare and unusual cases you could have access to by taking on speech therapist travel jobs! When you work in a wide variety of places, the chance of encountering unusual and rare speech disorders is greater than it would be if you worked at the same location.”

In fact, the more you can build an actual portfolio showing your experience in treating these types of conditions, the greater your cache will be with employers – both travel therapist services such as MedPro Healthcare Staffing, as well as clinics, hospitals and other healthcare operations needing speech therapists.

Just pretend you’re a hiring manager. Who would you be more interested in interviewing (and offering a position to)? The speech therapist who has “just” worked as a therapist in a suburban clinic for a number of years? Or would you sit up and take notice of the CV submitted by a therapist who offers a document, as the article notes, of “specific treatment plans that you’ve developed after encountering unusual or rare speech disorders!”?

Put another way (according to the article):

Anyone applying for speech language pathologist jobs presents a resume for the interview, but someone able to learn from unique speech therapy travel jobs has a portfolio.

Of course, there’s no guarantee you’ll encounter the more interesting speech therapy cases when working on travel therapy assignments. But you will have the opportunity to work with patients from all walks of life and socioeconomic backgrounds as you travel from clinics in rural areas to hospitals in some of the country’s most cosmopolitan cities.

“Taking speech therapist travel jobs is the kind of career decision that can literally introduce you to a whole new medical work where everything you learn only helps to propel your career even further,” the article concludes.

Have you encountered rare or unusual speech pathologies at your employer or as a traveling therapist? If so, why not take your highly regarded experience to clinics and hospitals all over the country as a traveling speech therapist? Contact a MedPro Healthcare Staffing recruiter today; we’d love to speak to you about the many traveling therapist opportunities we offer!

If you’ve been working as a speech, physical or occupational therapist for a few years you may be thinking of changing it up a bit and working as a contract therapist for a few months or even a few years – or perhaps make your full-time career that of the traveler. MedPro has a program which gives you the best of both worlds…..the security and benefits of working for an industry leader with the flexibility and excitement of working in different settings and facilities as you like.

Our clients engage us to find contract therapists because they have a serious need. They could be short-staffed. Someone could be on a long-term vacation. They could be anticipating an increase in census but can’t yet commit to hiring a therapist full time. There could be any number of reasons, but the most important one is that they need your skills.

Dealing with a variety of setting and patients will only help you increase your clinical proficiency. And give you the break you need from the same thing every day for months on end. It may not be for everyone but an increasing number of therapists are researching this option as a new career choice.

If you’re a physical, occupational or speech therapist with the itch to serve and the yen to do it in different settings around the country or close to home, then contact a recruiter at MedPro Healthcare Staffing. We look forward to hearing from you!