Speech and Language Pathologist Assistant (SLPA)

Speech Language Pathologist Assistant

About Spring Lake Park Schools: Welcome to Spring Lake Park Schools! We are a vibrant school community serving about 6,200 students from the suburbs of Blaine, Fridley and Spring Lake Park, in the northern Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. Our district purpose -- "High expectations, high achievement for all. No excuses" provides our focus to meet the unique and varied needs of each student. Spring Lake Park Schools is recognized for our commitment to personalized learning, creating a culture of innovation and creativity through human-centered design thinking. We are working to create a system a culture with a methodology and set of processes where teachers and staff have the freedom, flexibility and invitation to design new ways of learning centered around deepening student engagement to continuously improve student success.

Position Overview: The ideal candidate will provide excellent instruction and case management skills to students with speech/language and other types of disabilities. This includes:

• Provide direct service in articulation, stuttering, and language under the supervision of a Speech Language Pathologist (SLP)
• Develop lesson plans for providing service
• Prepare progress reports and day-to-day documentation for student service
• Draft present levels of performance for review by SLP
• Draft skill ideas to work on for review by SLP
• Prep materials and make visuals for speech services provided to students for SLP and SLPA as needed
• Assist with Transitioning skills into general ed.
• Assist with interventions set up by SLP

Qualifications: Necessary qualifications include... AAS Degree, or; BS in Speech and Language Hearing Sciences with additional transcript credits and hours obtained within an SLPA program License through the State of Minnesota (SLPA from the MN Department of Health) Effective interpersonal and communication skills Maintains confidentiality/data privacy

Wage + Benefits: Group Healthcare Specialists Position Speech Language Pathologist Assistant Rate of Pay $29.75/hr, +$1.00/hr differential if individual holds a BA Benefits Medical, Dental, Sick Leave, 403(b), Life, LTD, FSA