Speech and Language Pathologist

  • Full-time
  • Hiring Start Time: SY 22-23
  • HO Team: Boston Regional

Company Description

Uncommon Schools is a nonprofit network of high-performing, public charter schools providing an outstanding K-12 education in historically under-resourced communities. We have proudly built schools that reflect our student population, with more than 60% of our teachers and staff across our network identifying as a person of color. Uncommon currently manages 53 schools serving more than 20,000 students in five cities: Boston, Camden, New York City, Newark and Rochester. We are proud that Uncommon graduates persist in and graduate from college at five times the rate of their peers nationally. We achieve this by offering strong academic, co-curricular, and social-emotional learning that prepares students for success in college and beyond. 

Roxbury Prep consists of four schools serving students in grades 5 through 12. We believe in strong authentic relationships between teachers and students, supported by effective school systems and an engaging instructional model that enables students to flourish academically and personally. Roxbury Prep students have an astounding 98% college acceptance rate and collectively earned 1.3 million dollars in scholarships last year.

Job Description

  • Demonstrate a relentless drive to improve the minds, characters and lives of students both in and out of school. 
  • Show unwavering commitment to urban youth achieving greatness. 
  • Create a positive, structured learning environment to ensure that students observe the
  • school’s core values, high expectations, and strict code of conduct. 
  • Exhibit resilience to persevere and turn challenges into opportunities. 
  • Focus constantly on student learning, thinking critically and strategically to respond to student
  • learning needs. 
  • Communicate effectively with students, families, and colleagues. 
  • Engage families in their children’s education. 
  • Commit to continual professional growth. 
  • May participate in grade level team meetings, faculty meetings, Intervention and Referral Services meetings, and Child Study Team meetings. 
  • Provide consistent rewards and/or consequences for student behavior to ensure that students observe the school’s core values, high expectations, and strict code of conduct. 
  • Implement curricula and activities to meet IEP goals and objectives. 
  • Design and implement assessments that measure progress towards IEP standards. 
  • Use assessment data to refine therapeutic intervention and inform therapy practices. 
  • Be accountable for students’ mastery of IEP standards. 
  • Provide small group and/or individual speech and language therapy for identified students in grades 5 through 12. 
  • Assess, diagnose, treat, and help to prevent speech, language, cognitive-communication, voice, fluency, and other related disorders. 
  • Effectively communicate diagnostic test results, diagnoses, present level of speech and language functioning and proposed treatment goals in a manner easily understood by students and their families. 
  • Use qualitative and quantitative assessment methods, including screenings, standardized tests, and special instruments, to analyze and diagnose the nature and extent of speech and language impairments. 
  • Develop an individualized plan of care, tailored to each student’s needs. Provide present levels of speech and language functioning and speech and language goals and objectives for students’ IEP annual reviews. 
  • Select augmentative or alternative communication methods, including automated devices and sign language, and teach their use. 
  • Maintain records on the initial evaluation, progress, and discharge of students to identify problems, track progress, and justify treatment. 
  • Produce quarterly progress reports describing progress towards IEP goals and present level of performance. 
  • Provide direct clinical services to students with speech, language, cognitive-communication, voice, fluency, and other related disorders. 
  • Collaborate with teachers, special educators, audiologists, school psychologists, related service providers, and parents to develop and implement individual or group programs, provide counseling, and support classroom activities. 
  • Counsel students and their families concerning communication disorders and work with family members to recognize and change behavior patterns that impede communication and treatment and show them communication-enhancing techniques to use at home. 
  • Engage in one’s learning; seek out and act on feedback regularly. Seek out and engage in continuing professional education to maintain ASHA membership and Massachusetts State licensure.

Qualifications

  • Drive to improve the minds and lives of students in and out of the classroom. 
  • Proven track-record of high achievement in the therapeutic setting. 
  • Mastery of and enthusiasm for language and articulation strategies. 
  • Evidence of self-motivation and willingness to be a team player. 
  • Master’s degree, Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC) in Speech-Language Pathology and current ASHA membership required. 
  • Current license with the Massachusetts Board of Registration for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology. 
  • Minimum of two years experience in an urban public school or charter school setting preferred. Clinical Fellow applicants will not be considered. 
  • Belief in and alignment with Roxbury Prep Network and Uncommon Schools’ core beliefs and educational philosophy non-negotiable.

Additional Information

Our people are what makes us Uncommon.  We believe our compensation philosophy and benefits should reflect our values—equity, transparency, and clarity—to enhance our ability to attract and retain talent and reward their expertise.  Our staff receive best-in-class training, coaching, and support to develop and operate mission-driven schools that provide a high-quality education to our students and families.

Compensation for this position: The starting compensation for this role based in Boston is between $57,00 to $79,500.  The starting pay will depend on various factors that may include but are not limited to professional experience, education, training, certifications, tenure with Uncommon Schools, and work location.  Because we value staff tenure in each role, we do not currently cap salary ranges.  Please note: ranges may differ for staff who work from a location other than Boston.

Benefits: We offer comprehensive, flexible, and competitive benefits that support the personal health, wellness, and finances of our staff and their families.

Uncommon believes in the importance of being a diverse, equitable and inclusive organization that enables our students and staff to thrive. We are committed to building a talented team that reflects the diverse backgrounds and experiences of our students. At the same time, we work to ensure an inclusive community through creating a space for important dialogue about issues of race and identity for our staff and students.  As an equal opportunity employer, we hire without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability.