Part time Speech Language Pathologist

About the role

Work with school system personnel and community to develop and provide an appropriate special education program to eligible exceptional children.

Responsibilities

• Complete designated follow-up procedures for students referred for special education service.
• Develop, implement, monitor and review the Individual Education Program (IEP) of each handicapped student on the caseload, at least annually.
• Work with parents in all aspects of their child’s educational program and facilitate improved communication skills.
• Collect and maintain accurate and descriptive records on all students on caseload.
• Provide appropriate speech/language screening and diagnostic service.
• Collaborate with regular education and/or special education educators on an ongoing basis.
• Refer students to other specialists as needed.
• Assure all due process procedural safeguards are afforded students and their parents.
• Provide effective therapeutic services according to established program guidelines and through appropriate service delivery models.
• Use special methodology for instruction, according to the population needs.
• Stay informed on new techniques and methods.
• Use carefully designed behavior management strategies, as indicated.
• Administer, on an on-going basis, evaluations of student progress towards mastery of established goals and objectives specified by system’s recommended program report guidelines.
• Serve as a resource to the regular education teachers and administrators regarding the needs of all communicatively handicapped children.
• Perform special duties required for meeting the unique needs of specific populations, i.e., lifting physically handicapped.

Requirements

• Complete an approved program at the Master’s degree level or higher in Speech-Language Pathology.
• Possess or be eligible for proper certification from the state licensure agency.

Qualifications

• Valid and appropriate license, certificate and/or credential as may be required for this position.

Skills

• Ability to work with school system personnel and community.
• Ability to develop and provide an appropriate special education program.
• Ability to work with parents and facilitate improved communication skills.
• Ability to collect and maintain accurate and descriptive records.
• Ability to provide appropriate speech/language screening and diagnostic service.
• Ability to collaborate with regular education and/or special education educators.
• Ability to refer students to other specialists as needed.
• Ability to assure all due process procedural safeguards are afforded students and their parents.
• Ability to provide effective therapeutic services.
• Ability to stay informed on new techniques and methods.
• Ability to use special methodology for instruction.
• Ability to use carefully designed behavior management strategies.
• Ability to administer evaluations of student progress.
• Ability to serve as a resource to the regular education teachers and administrators.
• Ability to perform special duties required for meeting the unique needs of specific populations.

Benefits

Fringe Benefits: FICA is paid by the employee and matched by the School District. Temporary workers do not qualify for employee benefits.

Pay

Salaried; Exempt

Schedule

Regular work schedule applicable

Additional Notes

Essential Duties: Job descriptions are designed and intended only to summarize the essential duties, responsibilities, qualifications, and requirements for the purpose of clarifying the general nature and scope of a position’s role as part of the overall organization. Job descriptions do not list all tasks an employee might be expected to perform, and they do not limit the right of the employer/supervisor to assign additional tasks or otherwise to modify duties to be performed – even if seemingly unrelated to the basic job. Every employee has a duty to perform all assigned tasks. (An employee who is assigned a duty or task believed to be unlawful should report the assignment to the Chief Human Resources Officer.) It should also be noted the order of duties/ responsibilities as listed in the job description is not designed or intended to rank the duties in any order of importance relative to each other. Minimum Requirements: In filling a vacant position, preferred or required credentials regarding education, training, experience, and other bona fide occupational qualifications may be established. The credentials shown in this job description may be interpreted only as the minimum criteria existing at the time the description was developed. Other bona fide occupational qualifications and criteria may be utilized as needed in the selection process.