Speech Therapist; Heritage ES​/Washington ES

Speech Therapist role at School District U-46 serving Heritage ES (0.6) and Washington ES (0.4).
Position /

Title:

Speech and Language Pathologist.
Bargaining Unit: ETA.
Department/

Location:

Special Education.
Work Days: 184.
Reports To: Assistant Director of Special Education.
JD Revision Date: 06-14-2023.
Supervises: N/A.

• To work with parents, students, and staff in order to prevent, identify, evaluate and remediate a wide range of oral communication problems, including articulation, voice, fluency and language disorders.
• Prevention can include consultation, in-service training, and speaking with parents and parent groups.
• Identification can include pre-referral (student support teams), screenings, and referrals for the evaluation process.
• Assessment may include data collection through standardized or non-standardized measures, interpretation, report writing, sharing results with parents and staff, determining eligibility for services, and developing IEPs.
• Intervention can include caseload management (scheduling), direct remediation within the educational setting, pull-out services, consulting on academic and social issues, developing ongoing goals, documenting progress, collaborating with classroom teachers, and holding annual review meetings.
• Completing caseload records for special education funding.
• Maintaining student IEPs and evaluations on a web-based program.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team setting.

• Illinois Certificate with Speech and Language Pathology endorsement (Type 73 or Type 10 or Type 03/09).
• Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation Speech Language Pathologist License.
• Master's degree or higher in Speech Language Pathology.

• Must work in noisy and crowded environments.
• Indoors or outdoors in a busy school environment.
• Frequently work at a fast pace with unscheduled interruptions.
• May be required to leave main work site to attend meetings.
• Public contact requiring appropriate business-like apparel.

• Requires prolonged sitting or standing.
• Occasionally requires physical exertion to manually move, lift carry, pull, or push heavy objects or materials.
• Occasional stooping, bending, and reaching.

• Nine-month position (184 work days)

• Entry level

• Full-time

• Health Care Provider

• Primary and Secondary Education