Speech Language Pathologist
Start Date: August 2024 (Specific Date TBD)
Under the direction of the SEZP Chief of Student Support and Services, The SEZP Speech-Language Pathologist is responsible for evaluating and providing speech-language services to students with Individualized Educational Plans in SEZP schools.
Essential Responsibilities:

• Supervises Speech-Language Assistants as per state regulations.
• Serves as a resource to school staff members in the development of a balanced program to promote students' receptive and expressive language skills for academic success.
• Provides an individualized education program to meet individual needs of speech-language disabled students.
• Assists and guides teachers in the understanding of normal and disordered developmental milestones and referring to suspected and identified speech-language disabilities.
• Provides a thorough assessment and diagnosis of speech-language disorders and disabilities using culturally and linguistically appropriate methods.
• Provides screening to identify students with suspected speech-language disabilities.
• Assists in proper referrals of individuals to agencies and specialists in the community as appropriate.
• Collaborates with classroom teachers and other school staff members to implement age and linguistically appropriate accommodations and intervention strategies in the classroom.
• Provides information, support, and counsel to parents and families when appropriate in a multicultural and multilingual setting.
• Provides in-service training and serves as a consultant to teachers and school staff members on topics concerning first and second language acquisition and speech-language disorders/disabilities.
• Keeps thorough ongoing records for individual students receiving speech-language services.
• Maintains lists of referred, screened, and eligible students, as well as a directory of outside agencies, consultants, specialists and related services.
• Compiles case history in cases where additional family history, health history, early developmental history, and environmental history are deemed appropriate.
• Keeps track of and maintains inventories of speech-language evaluation tools and intervention materials in the schools.
• Maintains and manages a caseload of speech-language disabled students in the schools.
• Works collaboratively with the IEP chairperson ( SEZP Assistant Principal of Special Education) and school team to develop comprehensive educational plans for speech-language disabled students.

QUALIFICATIONS:
1. Masters Degree in Speech-Language Pathology
2 .Certificate of Clinical Competence or Clinical Fellowship Candidacy, ASHA
3. MA DESE License and/or MA State License in Speech-Language Pathology (All Grade Levels)
4. Bilingual in English Spanish preferred
If you meet some of the qualifications above, we encourage you to apply or to reach out for more information. We know that historically marginalized groups - including people of color, women, people from working class backgrounds, and people who identify as LGBTQ - are less likely to apply unless and until they meet every requirement for a job. Therefore, we strongly encourage applications from people with these identities or who are members of other marginalized communities.
We encourage you to reach out to info@sezp.org if you have questions about the role or your qualifications. We are happy to help you feel ready to apply!
Benefits
SEZP offers a competitive salary package commensurate with experience. SLPs in SEZP qualify for benefits (sick days, retirement, health insurance, etc.) offered to other staff in the Springfield Public Schools.
Positions will be filled on a rolling basis; applicants are encouraged to apply immediately. Please contact info@sezp.org with any questions.
About the Springfield Empowerment Zone Partnership
While Massachusetts is consistently ranked as one of the top states for education results in the country, we have one of the highest and most persistent opportunity gaps. The Springfield Empowerment Zone Partnership (SEZP) - established in 2015 as a collaboration between Springfield Public Schools (SPS), the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE), and the Springfield Education Association (SEA) - seeks to improve the longitudinal life outcomes of the nearly 5,000 students in our seventeen middle and high schools.
As a "zone" of schools within the city of Springfield, SEZP's approach draws on a deep and embedded partnership with the school district and local teachers' union, while harnessing the flexibility and innovation found in autonomous school models. As a result, each school within SEZP is accorded significant school-based autonomies - in curriculum, talent, calendar, schedule, and budget - while being held accountable for realizing achievement gains for historically marginalized students. In all of our work, SEZP is in pursuit of equity and anti-racism - acknowledging the systemic oppression our students and families encounter daily and working to disrupt these provision gaps urgently and courageously.
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