Purpose of Your Position
Provide speech language therapy services to infants’ toddlers, preschool and school age children for a minimum of 30 weekly sessions and conduct speech language therapy assessments and evaluations.
Job Functions
Every effort has been made to identify the essential functions of this position. However, it in no way states or implies that these are the only duties you will be required to perform. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or is an essential function of the position.
Position Functions and Responsibilities
- Understands and promotes Elizabeth Seton Children’s Mission, Vision, and Core Values to ensure application with organizational policies and procedures.
- Provide mandated services to assigned children on caseload in compliance with IFSP/IEP documents
- Participate in meetings and consultations with education staff and the multidisciplinary team concerning the needs of each child as related to his/her mandated services and progress updates
- Work effectively with parents, teaching staff and other professionals directly involved in the care and treatment of the child to develop and monitor IEP services
- Use accurate assessment skills to perform functional evaluations with reports reflecting current knowledge and evidence based practices and communicate results effectively in both written and verbal formats
- Maintain accurate record keeping and IEP/IFSP goal tracking documentation as required by SED/EI and Coleman School policies for quality assurance and accountability purposes
- Design and monitor assistive technology, adaptive equipment and augmentative communication needs in collaboration with team and family members
- Implement and monitor feeding programs for children on assigned case load in accordance with Coleman policies and ASHA guidelines for school therapists
- Serves as clinical instructor as needed for SLP students
- Actively participate in the creation and implementation of an individual and School wide Professional Development Plan that inspires personal growth and informs clinical practices
- Carry out standards for customer service; quality improvement; professional development; environmental, safety and infection control practices; confidentiality, corporate compliance and all other John A. Coleman policies and procedures; attend all mandatory in-services to ensure regulatory compliance and best practices in working with students and their families and procedures
- Perform other tasks to support the operations of the school as assigned by School Administration
- Work with the clinical supervisor to develop an observation schedule. The supervisor should have direct observations of the clinical fellow for a total 18 hours over the course of the Clinical Fellowship Year (CFY) (6 hours per segment).
- Actively participate in feedback sessions, with the supervisor, following direct observations.
- Submit notes and other documentation, for review, by the supervisor, in a timely fashion.
- Achieve a minimal rating of 2 (meets expectations) in each area of the ASHA Clinical Fellowship Skills Inventory (CFSI) by the end of the CFY period.