Job Description
We are hiring in Bronx, NY! Join us at Easterseals NY Bronx Child Development Center for an exciting career as a Speech Language Pathologist!
Mission: Easterseals New York's mission is to spread help, hope and answers www.Easterseals.com/newyork.
Easterseals New York operates programs that enable those with special needs to achieve equality, dignity, and independence in their own communities. It provides exceptional services to ensure that all people with disabilities or special needs and their families have equal opportunities to live, learn, work and play in their communities. We change the way the world defines and views disability by making profound, positive differences in people's lives every day. Easterseals has been an American Institution since 1919.
Easterseals New York joined The Fedcap Group in 2015.
Job Title: Speech Language Pathologist
Location: Bronx, NY
FLSA Status: Exempt
Position Type: Full Time
Salary Range : $65,000- 90,000 (depending on credentials and experience)
Position Summary:
Easterseals NY Bronx Child Development Center. is seeking a Speech Language Pathologist to help develop, provide and evaluate Speech Language therapies based on individual treatments.
Essential Job Functions:

• Evaluate communication skills to include receptive language, expressive language, articulation, voice, fluency, oral-motor skills and hearing.
• Develop a comprehensive service plan according to program policies and regulations, including school, outpatient, etc.
• Provide therapy as outlined by treatment plan of communication disorders of Individual Treatment Plan/Individual Education Plan.
• Maintain professional standards in and out of the Center in compliance with the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Code of Ethics.
• Instruct and counsel students/clients and/or their families regarding the specific nature of their communications impairments and how to best deal with this in various speaking situations.
• Attend IEP meetings, staffing, case conferences and department meetings.
• Maintain appropriate records: progress notes and reports, evaluations, plans, case conference reports and discharge summaries.
• Get and track insurance authorizations when applicable.
• Complete departmental program evaluation in accordance with agency policy and procedures.
• Function as a case manager and assist in coordinating and obtaining, other needed services.
• Supervise clinical fellowship year for staff speech language pathologist where appropriate.
• Perform additional duties as requested.
• The preceding Essential and No-Essential Responsibilities are not intended to be an exhaustive list of tasks and functions for this position. Other tasks and functions may be assigned as needed to fulfill the Agency mission.

Education and Experience:

• Master's Degree or its equivalent in the field of Speech and Language Pathology. Hold Certificate of Clinical Competence from American Speech/Hearing Association OR be in clinical fellowship year
• Current State Speech Language Pathologist License.
• Three years' experience working with young children as a speech/language pathologist is preferred.

QUALIFICATIONS: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
WORK ENVIROMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
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About Us
Mission: To educate young children with developmental disabilities in an atmosphere that embraces and accommodates individual differences and helps children to achieve in the context of the larger classroom and school setting.

In 1970, a group of Bronx parents of young children with disabilities joined together to explore ways to develop more sensitive and effective approaches for working with children. This informal group grew into These Our Treasures, Inc. (TOTS) in 1973.

TOTs provides comprehensive early educational and habilitation services for children using a transdisciplinary approach, which looks at the whole child and works in partnership with families and caregivers.

TOTs joined The Fedcap Group in 2019.

Website: http://theseourtreasures.com/index.html