To provide direct speech therapy to children from birth to agee three with developmental delays and disabilities.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Minimum Education/Certification:
Master's Degree
Certified as a licensed Speech Pathologist
Special Knowledge/Skills:
Effective organizational, communication (verbal and written), and interpersonal skills.
General knowledge of Child Development.
General knowledge of language and special development and instruction.
Minimum Experience:
One year experience in working with young children.
MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES:
1. Provide direct instruction to identified children and families.
2. Provide direct speech therapy to identified students.
3. Facilitate in screening and assessment of identified children and families.
4. Provide interpretation of assessment data and formulate reports.
5. Assist families with the development, implementation and evaluation of plans.
6. Keep informed of and comply with ECI, ESC, State and Federal policies and procedures.
7. Maintain records, reports, and correspondence in an organized filing system.
8. Demonstrate behavior that is professional, ethical and responsible and serve as a role model for the region.
9. Ability to develop written or verbal correspondence.
10. Develop skills appropriate to job assignment.
11. Keep updated on pediatric CPR.
12. Maintain confidential information.
13. Provide consultation to ECI staff regarding language acquisition.
Equipment Used:
Various adaptive and assistive devices
WORKING CONDITIONS
Mental Demands:
Ability to communicate effectively (verbal and written).
Ability to instruct.
Maintain emotional control in various environments.
Ability to interpret policy, procedures, and data.
Environment:
Frequent in-region and occasional out-of-region travel.
Occasional prolonged and irregular hours.
Works with frequent interruptions.
Standing, sitting, lifting, carrying, stooping, bending and reaching.
Must be able to enter homes that are not ADA accessible and must provide services to children in their homes for all ECI services.
All positions at ESC 3 are defined as security-sensitive. Security-sensitive positions are those which require employees to be entrusted with the certain types of data, whether electronic or in paper form. Those data elements, as defined by the ESC 3 Data Classification and Handling Policy may include, but not limited to:
It is the employees on-going responsibility to safe guard this type of data and to report any instance of lost or stolen data.
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