School Speech Language Pathologist

Job Title: School Speech Language Pathologist

Department: Special Education

Location: Central Elementary School On-Site

Supervisor: Director of Special Education

Job Type: Full-Time

Employment Classification: Exempt

Supervisory Role: No

The School Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) evaluates, diagnoses, and treats students with speech, language, voice, and fluency disorders. The SLP supports students' ability to access and benefit from the educational environment by improving their communication skills. This role includes developing individualized treatment plans, collaborating with educational teams, and ensuring compliance with federal and state regulations related to special education services.

Essential Job Functions

• Collaboration & Education: Collaborates with healthcare professionals, educators, caregivers, or family members to support treatment goals; educates patients and families on communication strategies, home programs, or maintenance techniques. Provides training to staff or team members as appropriate.
• Community Engagement: Collaborate with parents, families, school board members, citizens, community organizations, and stakeholders. Participate in district and community-related events.
• Compliance & Reporting: Ensure the school complies with local, state, and federal regulations, prepare and submit required reports, and stay informed of education laws and policy changes.
• Documentation & Compliance: Maintains accurate and timely documentation of evaluations, progress notes, treatment plans, and billing (as applicable). Ensures compliance with federal, state, and facility-specific regulations, including HIPAA; contributes to case reviews, team meetings, and care planning.
• Evaluation & Diagnosis: Conducts comprehensive assessments to evaluate speech, language, cognitive communication, and/or swallowing disorders; interprets diagnostic findings and communicates results clearly to patients, families, and care teams. Develops individualized treatment plans based on patient goals, diagnosis, and evidence-based practice.
• Professional Development: Stays current with continuing education, licensure, and certifications; follows ethical standards and best practices as outlined by ASHA and applicable regulatory bodies.
• Student Support: Foster a safe and inclusive school environment, address student behavioral issues, and coordinate resources with parents.
• Therapy & Intervention: Provides one-on-one or group therapy sessions to address communication and/or swallowing disorders; uses a variety of evidence-based techniques and tools tailored to patient needs. Monitor progress and modify treatment plans as needed to achieve outcomes.

All other duties as assigned.

Core Competencies

• Adaptability & Accountability: Adapts to changes in the work environment, manages competing demands, open to criticism and feedback, changes approach or method to best fit the situation, and takes responsibility for own actions.
• Analytical Skills: Synthesizes complex or diverse information, prioritizes projects, and determines the best way of meeting deadlines and requirements.
• Attendance & Punctuality: Schedules time off in advance, begins working on time, keeps absences within guidelines, ensures work responsibilities are covered when absent, and arrives at meetings and appointments on time. Coordinate substitute teacher coverage in advance of absence.
• Business Ethics: Works with integrity and ethically, upholds the school district's values, and abides by written school board policies and processes.
• Communication: Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in English and take direction from supervisors. Expresses ideas and thoughts both verbally and in written form, exhibits good listening skills and comprehension, responds well to questions, and writes clearly and informatively. Edits work for spelling and grammar. Presents accurate numerical data effectively.
• Compliance: Within the specified functional area of authority, is personally accountable to understand and ensure regulatory and policy compliance with state and federal requirements in accordance with their respective job duties and responsibilities.
• Confidentiality: Maintains a high degree of confidentiality.
• Culture: Demonstrates and supports a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion through cultivating awareness, continuous development, and modeling inclusive behaviors.
• Customer Service: Provides prompt and high-quality service to parents/guardians, colleagues, and any internal/external customers. Ability to remain calm in stressful situations. Resolves issues in a timely and professional manner.
• Independence of Action: Sets goals and determines how to accomplish defined results with some guidelines. Follow precedents and procedures. Seeks assistance when confronted with difficult and/or unpredictable situations.
• Judgment: Displays willingness to make decisions timely, exhibits sound and accurate judgment, supports and explains reasoning for decisions, includes appropriate people in decision-making process, and takes responsibility for communication, including what is heard.
• Organization: Maintains a clean, safe, and functional classroom. Maintains a continuous workflow to meet daily/weekly/monthly deadlines.
• Safety: Attends required safety training, follows any established injury and illness prevention plans, reports unsafe conditions, and keeps the workspace in a safe condition.
• Teamwork / Morale: Treats others with professionalism, gives and welcomes feedback, inspires the trust of others, displays a solution-driven mindset, offers assistance and support to colleagues, consistent with this role, and works cooperatively and collaboratively in group situations. Engages consistently in professional behavior.
• Training: Successfully completes school-required training in a timely manner to maintain compliance and professional growth.

Other Duties

• Attends staff, departmental, and other required meetings.
• Completes all district-wide annual education and training assignments.
• Travels to conferences, or other professional development and networking events, as required.
• Complies with all privacy laws, including FERPA, HIPAA, state, etc.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications, Experience, and Education

• Master's degree in Speech-Language Pathology from an accredited program. (REQUIRED)
• Valid state licensure or certification as a Speech-Language Pathologist in Virginia. (REQUIRED)
• Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC) from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), or CFY supervision plan in place. (REQUIRED)

Computer and Equipment Skills

• Advanced skills with Microsoft/Google Platform applications, which may include GMAIL, Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and/or other web-based applications.
• Use of the internet and online teleconferencing software (e.g., Zoom or Teams).
• Ability to navigate web-based programs.
• Familiarity with electronic health records and school health systems.

Working Environment and Physical Requirements

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS - None - Under 1/3 - 1/3 - 2/3 - Over 2/3

Standing - X

Walking - X

Sitting - X

Using hands to touch, handle, or feel - X

Reaching with hands and arms - X

Climbing stairs - X

Bending, stooping, kneeling, crouching, or crawling - X

Computer use - X

Phone use - X

Talking and hearing - Clear speech and good hearing, both face to face and on the phone; hears well in noisy social environments

Seeing - Clear vision at 20 inches or less with or without corrective lenses; vision sufficient to drive motor vehicles safely with or without corrective lenses

Lifting - Lifts up to 10 pounds routinely, up to 35 pounds occasionally