Position Overview

The Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP) provides comprehensive speech and language services to students at Oak Hill School. The SLP conducts assessments, sets goals, provides faculty and parent training, group and co-treatment speech and language therapy sessions documentation and reporting.

Job Objective/Purpose

Assess students and develop appropriate, meaningful goals and objectives that support total communication. Comply with all duties and responsibilities of an SLPA as outlined by the Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology & Hearing Aid Dispensers Board of California.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Monitor implementation of speech and language IEP goals and objectives
• Attend team meetings, IEPs, staff collaborations and trainings
• Collaborate with staff and parents on speech-language practices and programs
• Provide individual, group and co-treatment therapy to students
• Administer informal and formalized assessment(s) to students
• Compile speech and language data on students and provide monthly, quarterly and annual progress reports to appropriate parties
• Complete student service logs on a weekly basis and write session notes in a timely manner
• Ensure that appropriate speech and language materials and programs are purchased to implement all speech and language goals and objectives
• Provide speech and language consultation to families and staff members
• Work with student who have behavior challenges and run Behavior Intervention Plan with fidelity
• Meet with Director of School Programs on an ongoing basis to monitor and evaluate SLPA’s roles and responsibilities, including allocation of hours as per employee agreement

Qualifications

• California Speech and Language license with Certificate of Clinical Competence
• Strongly prefer experience working with students on the autism spectrum and the ability to work with minimal supervision and structure sessions appropriately
• Familiarity with development relationship-based interventions
• Effective written and oral communication skills, including giving and receiving feedback from school partners
• Patience and perseverance partnered with a creative therapeutic approach, open to learning new strategies
• Flexibility and ability to multi-task successfully
• Must demonstrated ability to work collaboratively
• Proficiency on computer with software applications and demonstrated knowledge of assisted communication/visual systems
• Working knowledge of sensory processing/regulation issues/strategies

Skills Desired

Knowledge/Job Specific Competencies

• Utilization of Google Suite
• Ability to work collaboratively in a relationship-centered environment

Personal Qualities

• High level of integrity and honesty
• Articulate and clear communicator
• Team player
• Adaptable and flexible
• Professional and diplomatic
• Excellent judgment
• Initiative
• Patience

Physical Requirements

Working and engaging/playing with students at Oak Hill School require a considerable amount of strength and physical movement. Employees must be able to perform the following movement functions as needed:

Regularly

• Sitting - Resting position in which the body weight is supported primarily by the buttoks in contact with teh ground or a horizontal object such as a chair seat.
• Exert - up to 20 lbs. of force to move objects or equipment and to work/play with students.
• Motor Skills - Picking, pinching or otherwise working primarily with fingers as in handling, typing or writing.

Frequently

• Standing - Remaining upright on the feet, particularly for sustained periods of time.
• Walking/Running - Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances for community outings or moving from one classroom/office to another. Running is required for potential emergency situations.
• Reaching - extending the hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Exert - up to 40 lbs. of force to move objects or equipment and to work/play with students.
• Handling - Seizing, holding, grasping, turning or otherwise working with hand(s)

Occasionally

• Lifting - Up to 25 lbs. raising objects from a lower to higher position or moving

objects horizontally from position to position.

• Exert - Up to 80 lbs. Of force to move objects, equipment and to work/play with students.
• Climbing - Ascending or descending stairs, ramps or hills using feet and legs.
• Balancing - Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling.
• Stooping - Bending body downward and forward.
• Kneeling - Bending legs at knees to come to rest on knee or knees.

Physical Requirements, Continued

Occasionally, Continued

• Crouching - Bending body downward and forward by bending legs and spine.
• Crawling - Moving about on hands and knees or hands and feet.
• Pushing - Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward or outward.
• Pulling - Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, drag, haul or tug objects in sustained motion.

Important: An Oak Hill School student may exhibit behaviors such as aggression (e.g. biting, kicking, hitting), property destruction, self-injurious behavior, screaming, etc. Due to the potential safety risk for staff and students associated with working with those who may engage in behaviors of concern, all staff are required to be certified by the Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI) to handle potentially dangerous situations and work to prevent crisis situations and/or hazards associated with those who engage in behaviors that pose a safety risk. Staff will not be allowed to perform Nonviolent Physical Crisis Intervention or any type of physical management unless they have received the initial CPI training/certification through Oak Hill School.

The CPI program is a safe, non-harmful behavior management system designed to aid staff members in maintaining the best possible Care, Welfare, Safety and Security for agitated or our of control individuals even during their most violent moments. In the event that a student requires physical management because he/she poses a serious imminent safety risk to him/herself and/or others, Nonviolent Physical Crisis Intervention will be used as a last resort.

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: $93,000.00 - $123,000.00 per year

License/Certification:

• Speech-Language Pathology License (Required)

Work Location: In person