School Speech Language Pathologist

Rockbridge County Public School is an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color religion, disability, age, sex (including sexual orientation, gender identity, and transgender status), national origin, veteran status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law. Our workplace culture values and promotes diversity, inclusion, equal employment opportunities, and a work environment free of harassment and hostility. Rockbridge County Public School is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities.

Job Summary

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

Core Competencies

• Adaptability & Accountability: Adapts to changes in the work environment, manages competing demands, is 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.
• Business Ethics: Works with integrity and ethics, upholds organizational values, and abides by written policies.

• 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 for understanding and ensuring 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 team members, vendors, and internal/external customers. Ability to remain calm in stressful situations. Resolves service issues in the assigned project/department in a timely and professional manner.

• Independence of Action: Sets goals and determines how to accomplish defined results with some guidelines. Follows 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 clean, functional workspace, continuous workflow to meet daily/weekly/monthly deadlines.
• Safety: Attends required safety meetings, follows the Injury and Illness Prevention Plan (IIPP)/Safety Plan and reports unsafe conditions, keeps workspace in 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 co-workers consistent with this role, works cooperatively and collaboratively in group situations. Engages consistently in professional behavior.
• Training: Completes district-required training timely.

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.
• Requisitions needed supplies and equipment.

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)
• Experience working with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) (PREFERRED)

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