We are hiring Speech and Language Pathologists (SLP) for one of our clients in Elgin, IL.

Job Description:

Position goal:

• To work with ELL students (Spanish/English), parents and staff in order to prevent, identify, evaluate and remediate a wide range of oral communication problems, including articulation, voice, and fluency and language disorders.

Essential functions:

• Prevention can include consultation, in service training, and speaking with parents and parent groups.
• Identification can include pre referral (student support teams), bilingual screenings, and referrals for the evaluation process.
• Assessment may include data collection in both Spanish and English through standardized or non-standardized measures, interpretation, report writing in English, bilingually sharing results with parents and staff, determining eligibility for services, and developing appropriate ELL speech and language IEP's.
• Intervention can include caseload management (scheduling), direct remediation within the educational setting, pull out services, consulting on academic and social issues, developing ongoing goals, documenting progress, collaborating with classroom teachers and other school personnel as well as holding annual review meetings, speech/language only report backs as well as report backs to service teams.
• Completing caseload records for special education funding.
• Managing/Maintaining student IEP's and evaluations on web based computer program.
• Assignment may include multiple sites and age/ability levels as well as district
• assessments and SLPP supervision.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team setting using both English and Spanish.
• Other duties as assigned by supervisor or administration.

Knowledge and Critical Skills:

• Near fluent to fluent verbal and written Spanish and English skills.
• Bicultural awareness of both Spanish speaking countries and mainstream English speaking community.
• An understanding of the characteristics of second language acquisition, its impact on the native language and differentiating between speech and language difference vs. disorder.
• An understanding of dual language assessment data collection model(s.)

Experience and Education:

• Illinois Certificate with Speech and Language Pathology endorsement (Type 73 or Type 10 or Type 03/09).
• Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation Speech Language Pathologist License.

Environmental Conditions:

• Must work in noisy and crowded environments.
• Indoors or outdoors in a busy school environment.
• Frequently work at a fast pace with unscheduled interruptions.
• May be required to leave main work site to attend meetings.
• Public contact requiring appropriate business-like apparel.

Physical Demands:

• Requires prolonged sitting or standing.
• Occasionally requires physical exertion to manually move, lift carry, pull, or push heavy objects or materials.
• Occasional stooping, bending, and reaching.

Terms of employment:

• Nine month position (189 work days)

Shift hours:

• 7.5 hours daily; start/end time based on school assignment(s) ranging from 7:00 am to 4:00 pm

About Us:

We are specialized in recruiting and deliver the best professional talent of industry and we are committed to deliver best experience for our clients and job seekers. With over two decades of experience in the recruitment industry, we proudly help you to find the next job that matches your professional skills. Our team understands your needs or requirement before starting the recruitment, that enables to find the high quality of talent with high success rate of talent delivery, keeps us continue to be the best in the industry. By responding to this job posting, you are consenting to receive text/SMS messages from us. Thank you.