Position Title: Speech Language Pathologist/Therapist
Required Application Type: Teacher / Admin
Salary/Pay Scale: $53,831 - $76,464 per year
Job Description:
Speech Language Pathologist (Speech Therapist) Role
This position reports to the Pupil Services Division and school principal in a midsize urban school district located in the Capital region of Upstate New York. The Speech Language Pathologist (Speech Therapist) will work with teachers, parents, and school leaders to develop plans and strategies. Speech Language Pathologist (Speech Therapist) will possess the competencies necessary for serving the linguistic and educational needs of children, adolescents and families. This position requires a high degree of culturally responsiveness, continuous reflection and creativity when it comes to addressing the needs of students.
Speech Language Pathologist (Speech Therapist) Expectations:
- Work across all levels to provide appropriate speech-language services in Pre-K, elementary, middle, junior high, and high schools with no school level underserved.
- Serve a range of disorders as delineated in the ASHA Scope of Practice in Speech-Language Pathology and federal regulations - work with students exhibiting the full range of communication disorders, including those involving language, articulation (speech sound disorders), fluency, voice/resonance, and swallowing.
- Ensure educational relevance by determining whether the disorder has an impact on the education of students.
- Provide unique contributions to curriculum based on focused expertise in language.
- Highlight language/literacy by contributing significantly to the literacy achievement of students with communication disorders.
- Provide culturally competent services by ensuring that all students receive quality, culturally competent services.
- Help students meet the performance standards of a particular school district and state.
- Engage in preventing academic failure in whatever form those initiatives may take.
- Engage in conducting assessments in collaboration with others that help to identify students with communication disorders.
- Provide interventions that are culturally responsive and appropriate to the age and learning needs of each individual student.
- Engage in designing schoolwide programs that employ a continuum of service delivery models in the least restrictive environment.
- Engage in data-based decision making, including gathering and interpreting data with individual students.
- Ensure compliance with federal and state mandates as well as local policies in performance of their duties.
- Engage in collaboration by working in partnership with others to meet students' needs.
- Complement and augment those services provided by other professionals.
- Develop relationships with universities to exchange shared knowledge and perspectives.
- Develop community relationships with a variety of individuals and agencies.
- Develop relationships with families by engaging families in planning, decision making, and program implementation.
- Develop relationships with students by engaging them in goal planning, intervention implementation, monitoring of progress, and self-advocacy.
- Provide direction in defining their roles and responsibilities and in ensuring delivery of appropriate services to students.
- Advocate for appropriate programs and services for children and adolescents.
- Play a vital role in inducting new professionals.
- Design and conduct professional development.
- Provide training to parents of students of all ages with regard to communication development and disorders.
- Participate in research to generate and support the use of evidence-based assessment and intervention practices.
Speech Language Pathologist (Speech Therapist) Key Qualities:
- Able to be empathetic by caring, understanding, and cultivating an empowering environment for all students.
- Demonstrates patience with serious issues, students and families.
- Able to be dependable in ways that develop trust with students.
- Able to implement an organizational system to support both case management and student needs simultaneously.
- Being able to observe with skill and listen closely.
- Being able to make impartial informed decisions on behalf of students and families.
- Ability to be persistent and resilient when dealing with setbacks.
- Willing to be flexible and multitask as needed on demand.
- Ability to use a culturally responsive approach to develop relationships and execute interventions with fidelity.
- Willingness to learn, in order to be relatable, flexible, personable and adaptable.
- Engages in continuous self-care.
Job Qualifications:
Minimum Qualifications:
- NYS certification as a Speech Language Pathologist (Speech Therapist) is required.
- Graduation from a regionally accredited or New York State registered college or university.
- CSE experience preferred.
- Experience working in schools and with children preferred.
Application Procedure:
About Schenectady City Schools:
With a population of nearly 10,000 students, the Schenectady City School District is one of the largest in the Capital Region. With an incredibly diverse population we are committed to ensuring that all children feel valued, are safe and will learn. We place the highest priority on a culture of equity, ensuring that race, economics, and disability are never predictors of student achievement.
The Schenectady City School District is committed to hiring members of protected classes and residents of the City of Schenectady. For more information on the District's recruitment and hiring plan, please contact the Human Resources Office at 881-2000 ext. 40133. The Schenectady City School District does not discriminate on the basis of age, color, creed, disability, marital status, veteran status, national origin, race or gender.
Job Category: Teacher
Job Location: MLK Elementary
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