Speech Language Pathologist

Thank you for your interest in working with Rome City Schools.
We look forward to receiving your application.

Are you passionate about shaping young minds and making a lasting impact in education?


Rome City Schools is seeking a Speech Language Pathologist for the upcoming 2025-2026 school year!

Position Title: Speech Language Pathologist


Division/Department: Special Education


Pay Grade: Certified Salary Schedule


Pay Type: Salaried-Exempt


Retirement: TRS


Work Days: 190


Reports To: Director of Special Education


Evaluation Instrument:

MINIMUM QUALIFICATION


Valid Georgia Teaching/Service Certificate or George State License in Speech-Language Pathology Required. Certification through the American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA) preferred.

Goal:

The Speech-Language Pathologist provides services for all students with disabilities. He/she assumes district-level shared responsibility for the knowledge and application of the speech language pathology for students with disabilities. The SLP follows all federal, state, and district due process policies and procedures while supporting school administrators and special educators in compliant practices.

REPRESENTATIVE DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Demonstrates prompt and regular attendance.
• Maintains a procedure for requisitioning, ordering, and paying for materials and equipment
• Maintains an inventory of all materials and equipment.
• Assumes responsibility for own professional growth and development, for keeping current with the literature, new research findings, and improved techniques, and for attending appropriate professional meetings and conventions regarding special education.
• Contribute to the development of the IEP, such as goals, modifications, and learning styles.
• Consult with diagnosticians, classroom teachers, related service therapists, students, and parents concerning appropriate evaluations, modifications, and test administration.
• Obtain modified standardized testing materials and assist in the administration or administer the test as needed.
• Work as liaison with other agencies in vocational assessment process.
• Administer various other tests as appropriate and as required by Rome City Schools.
• Schedule time efficiently for assessment, instruction, planning, preparation of materials, travel, and conferences with relevant school and other key individuals.
• Maintains ongoing contact with parents to assist them in the development of a realistic understanding of their child's abilities, progress, and future goals.
• Provides in-service training programs for school personnel and students and education for parents regarding the needs of the speech impaired students and adaptations, programs, and services for these students.
• Maintain awareness of and compliance with federal and state regulations regarding Special Education.
• Follows all district, state and federal policies and procedures.
• Maintains prompt and professional communication with all stakeholders.
• Performs other duties as assigned by appropriate administrator.

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.