When you join the team at VPA @ Lucerne you join a team of dedicated professionals working all over the state in a virtual environment to ensure the success of our families and students. We are dedicated to our mission statement of helping students to become independent learners who are responsible, competent, collaborative, compassionate, and critical thinkers, with a strong sense of self and community. Our schools provide students with an excellent education, grounded in high academic standards, which will help them achieve their full academic and social potential.

Working in cooperation with appropriate district supervisors, teachers, parents and students, shall be responsible for providing diagnostic and intervention services for students with speech, language and hearing disorders helping students to adjust and access the general education curriculum.

Responsibilities

• Screen and provide response to interventions for students within the general education program
• Complete assessments and evaluation reports
• Complete Review of Records Reports
• Develop goals and recommendations for students with language, speech, and hearing deficits
• Develop speech and/or language lesson plans and directly implement virtual therapy for both individual and small group services
• Collaborate and participate in Individual Education Plan (IEP) meetings, Student Study Team meetings and conferences as appropriate
• Notify teachers and administrators of identified language, speech, and hearing students
• Develop an efficient schedule for supporting students
• Implement Individualized Education Plans (IEP) and monitor student goal progress
• Case Manage students with Speech and Language disorders
• Consult and collaborate with community agencies and services and general resources
• Research new information regarding intervention/treatment techniques, methods, assessment materials, available resources and regularly communicates to staff and parents via consultation, collaboration, and in services and/or consultatively handicapped
• Cooperate with others in assessing and helping students solve health, attitude, and learning problems
• Maintain continuing education in Speech and Language Pathology
• Evaluate students minimally every 3 years
• Attend virtual staff meetings as needed
• Other duties as assigned

 Skills/Qualifications

• Reside in the state of California
• Must hold a valid California Speech-Language Pathology Services credential or license (Master’s Degree highly recommended)
• Strong content and subject-matter knowledge
• Ability to support and guide adults, as well as students
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Organization and time-management skills
• Excellent writing and grammar skills
• Proficient in both in MS Office programs and Google applications and experience using them in a professional capacity
• Able to complete and review IEPs accurately and within timeline requirements
• Strong ability to gather, analyze, and interpret student data to make sound educational decisions
• Exhibit flexibility with regard to decision-making, daily challenges, and job duties
• Has strong sense of integrity
• Has a “team player” attitude
• Ability to work in a diverse educational community setting
• Satisfactory completion of state required criminal history check and health tests

 EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

It is our policy to abide by all federal, state and local laws prohibiting employment discrimination based solely on a person’s race, color, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, pregnancy, childbirth, physical disability, mental and/or intellectual disability, age, military status, veteran status (including protected veterans), marital status, registered domestic partner or civil union status, familial status, gender (including sex stereotyping and gender identity or expression), medical condition, genetic information, sexual orientation, or any other protected status except where a reasonable, bonafide occupational qualification exists.