Bilingual (Spanish) Speech & Language Pathologist- Lake County

About the role

Founded in 2001, LEARN is a network of high-performing college preparatory, tuition-free public elementary and middle schools with the mission of providing children with the academic foundation and ambition to earn a college degree. There are 11 LEARN Schools serving 4,100 students in grades PK-8 across Chicago, Waukegan, North Chicago, and Washington, D.C.

Responsibilities

• Work to prevent, assess, identify, and treat speech, language, social communication, and cognitive-communication disorders in children to support access to the school environment
• Participate as an active/valued member of the Network and school based teams (SPED, 504, MTSS) to ensure scholars with speech/language related needs are screened, identified, and evaluated appropriately to determine and implement individual plans to meet their needs
• Serve as the primary case manager for speech only IEP//MTSS plans and oversee scheduling and facilitating required meetings within timelines
• Serve as a team member for all other individual plans for which the SLP is a RSP
• Prepare and present documents/reports within given compliance timelines, and participate in school based problem solving/504/IEP meetings including but not limited to eligibility, annuals, and check in meetings
• Request specific information from non-school agencies (e.g. clinics, hospitals, physicians, health departments, day care centers, etc) with signed release of information
• Maintain and document records of direct services, collaboration logs, and progress monitoring data as required by the Network and local authorizers
• Maintain confidentiality as required by the Network and legislation
• Ensure annual goals and benchmarks are based on data and research based practices, specific to individual student needs
• Keep abreast of research based best practices and evaluation tools to ensure scholars are identified appropriately and receive high quality services; provide PDs and/or share information with SLP teams and other stakeholders as necessary
• Consistently and actively participate in school and Network meetings (i.e. SLP meetings, professional development, team meetings, staff meetings)
• Serve as a liaison between the SLP team and other teams, and the expert as it relates to speech/language theories and therapies

Requirements

• Master’s degree or higher in Speech Language Pathology
• Licence with Speech Language Pathologist endorsement issued by Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) - PEL
• Bilingual (Spanish)
• 1+ year of school-based experience

Qualifications

• Persistent and intentional mindset towards the overall success of each child

Skills

• Knowledge and following of all Network, federal, state and local rules, regulations and laws

Benefits

• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
• Wellness Benefits: Online Mental Health Support, free on site COVID testing
• Paid vacation, personal days, paid holidays, including 5 days off every 23 days in a school year
• Short and long term disability
• Paid life insurance
• Chicago Teachers' Pension fund or Teacher Retirement Fund
• Ongoing professional development opportunities: Paid online CEU membership
• Weekly PDs