Casual Speech & Language Pathologist

Casual Speech-Language Pathologist

Position:
Casual Speech-Language Pathologist

Location:

HDSB Schools [Burlington, Halton Hills (Acton & Georgetown), Oakville, Milton]

Pay Rate: $80,113.00 - $ per year as per the collective agreement

Salary step would be determined based on previous experience

The Halton District School Board (HDSB) is one of the fastest growing school districts in Canada. Together, our 10,000+ staff serve more than 66,000 students in more than 100 schools in the communities of Burlington, Oakville, Milton, Georgetown and Halton Hills. We are seeking qualified Casual Speech‑Language Pathologists (SLP) to be placed in the SLP casual pool. Individuals within this casual pool may be offered temporary, short‑term employment up to 3 months in length to fill temporary vacancies during the absence of the regular incumbent.

Casual pool applicants who are successful in the interview and provide the board with a clear vulnerable sector check and a confirmation of their diploma/degree will be contacted when short‑term and long‑term temporary assignments become available. Once employed in a short‑term or long‑term temporary Speech‑Language Pathologist position, casual/replacement SLP applicants will have priority consideration for long term occasional and permanent job opportunities as they are posted as per the PSSP Collective Agreement.

For temporary long‑term occasional (LTO) positions, longer than three months, a comprehensive Employee & Family Benefits plan applies to those in positions longer than 90 consecutive days.

Once an applicant is offered an accepts a short‑term or long‑term temporary position, they become employees of the HDSB. Successful casual pool applicants will be placed within the casual pool for a period of up to 2 years.

• Direct opportunity to impact student wellbeing and academic success
• Opportunity to work in a Board where collaboration, inclusion, and innovation are fostered
• Professional Development / Mentorship
• Opportunity to actively engage and learn collaboratively with peers
• Participate in a variety of ongoing ad‑hoc committees and teams

Reporting to the Special Education Manager of Speech‑Language Pathology Services, the Speech‑Language Pathologist will work primarily in a variety of elementary and secondary schools within a defined geographic region.

• Providing student‑specific assessment, consultation, preventative and interventive services to support a caseload of students with a wide range of communication delays or disorders, including students who range from nonverbal to highly verbal
• Engaging in the provision of professional development and supports related to whole class, small group and individual learning
• Providing consultative/collaborative support to educational staff, students and parents
• Collaborating with educators and students in specialized language programs/classrooms
• Collaborating with educators to support early literacy programs
• Participating in multi‑disciplinary teams/committees and School Resource Team meetings
• Providing clinical direction to Communicative Disorders Assistants
• Independently maintaining and managing a caseload across a number of schools, obtaining informed consent from parents/guardians/students, maintaining appropriate, confidential records, and providing timely reports
• Consulting/collaborating with administrators and teachers on school‑based supports, providing recommendations for programming and making referrals, as appropriate, for other services to support students

• A Master’s degree from an accredited University
• Current registration in the College of Audiologists and Speech‑Language Pathologists of Ontario (CASLPO)
• Strong interpersonal skills, and verbal and written communication skills
• Flexibility, patience, tolerance, enthusiasm, creativity and team‑oriented
• Experience working with children with receptive and expressive language and early literacy delays
• Experience supporting children with significant communication delays/disorders and/or neurodevelopmental delays/disorders…