Description

Mission and Priorities:

At Children’s Health Council, we believe in the promise and potential of every child, teen and young adult. Our mission is to transform young lives by providing culturally responsive best-in-class learning and mental health services to families from diverse backgrounds regardless of language, location, or ability to pay. We specialize in ADHD, Learning Differences, Anxiety & Depression and Autism. Our strategic priorities include: being people first and empowering our workforce, creating systems built on equity, access, and inclusion, elevating technology and strengthening our community partnerships.

Could this be you?

• Do you like to work in an environment where we live our mission?
• Do you value celebrating our differences and learning from them?
• Are you passionate about the work you do?
• Do you value collaboration?
• Are you looking to be empowered as a professional to help us grow as an organizational community?
• Are you a skilled cross-cultural communicator, helping cultivate a place of acceptance?
• Do you value cross-cultural competence and communication with individuals, teams, and systems within our organization?
  
  

If you can answer “yes” to these questions, this job could be for you!

Our mission is to remove barriers to learning, helping children and teens become resilient, happy and successful, at home, at school, and in life. We specialize in ADHD, Learning Differences, Anxiety & Depression, and Autism.

Esther B. Clark Schools provide transformative education in a caring, therapeutic day school setting where children with emotional and behavioral issues re-engage in learning and develop the positive behaviors necessary to transition back to a more traditional school setting. It’s one of the most successful programs of its kind.

The EBC Speech and Language Therapist serves part of the total interdisciplinary team at the school. As such this individual provides both pull out and push in speech and language services on both an individual and small group basis, ensuring that such services are not only compliant with students’ IEP’s, but address more subtle communication deficits in the context of the school’s social thinking and skills programs.

Responsibilities:

Complete full speech and language assessments when required and/or requested by a student’s IEP team.

Provide speech and language assessment report with recommendation and service goals as requested by the student’s IEP team.

Participate in team parent conferences and student’s IEP when requested.

Provide designated “pull out” individual speech and language therapy that addresses established IEP goals and improves the student’s access to core curriculum, enhances peer relationships and expands student’s competency in social-emotional learning.

Provide “push in or pull out” speech and language services as contracted by parents who seek to enhance their child’s communication competency. Provider will develop goals, implement appropriate services to address recognized challenges and monitor and report progress on a regular basis.

Provide “push in” small group speech and language services to all Junior Division classrooms on a frequency, duration and topic(s) as determined by each team

Performs Other Related Duties As Required And Assigned.

Qualifications:

Previous experience with children in applied clinical or classroom environment.

Ability to work collaboratively in a team-oriented environment

Master’s degree or higher, Certification of Clinical Competency, California State license, State of California credential with authorization in Language, Speech and Hearing.

About your background (education/experience):

• Master’s degree or higher.
• Valid Certification of Clinical Competence in Speech and Language Pathology (CCC-SLP) from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) required.
• Valid California State license, State of California credential with authorization in Language, Speech and Hearing.
• Three years post licensure experience in pediatric clinic or school setting preferred.
  
  

Working Conditions:

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear.
• To meet the needs of our clients, after-school availability in the afternoon and evening hours is required. Availability between 2-6pm is preferred.
• This position will be split between our San Jose and Palo Alto locations.
  
  

Compensation:

Range: $55.00 to $65.00 per hour

Pay Type: Hourly

• The starting hourly rate for this position is as shown above. The actual hourly rate is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs, and market demand. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.
  
  

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