[2024-2025] Speech and Language Therapist - Elementary…

Job Description
Responsibilities: 
Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):
Provide speech-language therapy according to student needs to meet IEP mandates in individual, group, virtual, and push-in sessions
Flexibly and creatively implement therapeutic services using evidence-based practices
Address the needs of students beginning to struggle through a Response to Intervention tiered model
Conduct speech and language screenings of all kindergarten students
 Offer support to our students of all age ranges and from heterogeneous and various linguistic backgrounds
Participate in and lead professional development with general education teachers, learning specialists, administrators, and your fellow KIPP NYC speech-language therapists
Coach contracted speech-language pathologists in their work with students receiving IEP mandated speech-language therapy
Provide consultation for fellow speech-language therapists on the KIPP NYC team
Write annual IEP reports: student’s present level of performance, goals, and recommendations
Provide speech and language interim and/or baseline assessments
Opportunity to supervise graduate student interns
Communicate student progress and carry-over techniques to parents and families
Participate in Child Study Teams
Function as an integrated member of the KIPP school community 
Additional Expectations:
Screening for Kindergarten students
Minimum of 3 groups of Kindergarten RtI focusing on phonological awareness (3-5 students each)
Provide RtI support to 1st grade students through differentiation of material and small group interventions
 Provide Guided Reading Instruction to support language and literacy (as determined by school)
Collaboration with contracted therapists Weekly check-ins
  Quarterly observation/coaching
 Professional development or consultation services for classroom teachers
Participate in Child Study Teams
Regional Speech And Language Therapist team meetings
 Arrive to school at assigned times (For example, by 7:30AM and remain until 5:15PM daily unless otherwise noted due to PD schedule or other afterschool events, or if a team member is on a flexible schedule)Team members are on time (Rule of thumb: on time=5 minutes early)
Team members are present at school, except for illness/emergencies or planned and approved personal days
Team members plan appointments outside of school times (after 5:15pm, on weekends, over vacations, as personal days)
 Assist with school duty schedules: arrival/lunch/recess/late students schedule
Respond to emails in a timely fashion within 24 hours
Respond and adhere to deadlines of documents due
Update bulletin boards/student work monthly
Maintain a clean and organized environment
Attend Saturday School on appropriate Saturdays
Attend/participate in report card nights
Attend/participate in  every all-staff events
Adhere to dress code on a daily basis 
Optional:
Mandated caseload of IEP students (as determined by school leaders)
 Individual/group sessions for articulation and fluency (any grade level)
 Hearing screenings