Early Intervention Speech/Language Pathologist - Early Intervention

Mission Statement:

Bay Cove Human Services partners with people to overcome challenges and realize personal potential.

Job Summary:

Utilizing your expertise as an SLP, you provide evidence-based services to children and their families through home visiting, evaluation, and/or groups in keeping with our mission. This is an exempt position.

Essential Functions of Position:

• Provides Speech therapy with children and their caregivers as needed on assigned cases.
• Provides service coordination of assigned cases, including home visits, crisis management, collateral contacts, and transition planning.
• Facilitates developmental assessments on all assigned cases and participates in assessments of children assigned to other team members, including doing the written reports of such assessments.
• Provides group leadership as assigned (parent and /or child groups), including planning, setup, cleanup and playroom maintenance with co-leaders.
• Maintains written case records in accordance with QA requirements.
• Attends all necessary meetings (such as IEP planning meetings) prior to child’s transition out of the program.
• Has knowledge of and adheres to DPH service and billing guidelines.
• Provides direct service units sufficient to meet 100% of productivity requirements.
• Attends supervision, management and staff meetings regularly.
• Performs other duties as assigned by supervisor.

Requirements for the position

Professional Characteristics:

• Demonstrated ability to work effectively and collaboratively with a culturally diverse population of clients, other care providers, family, community members and state agency representatives.
• Ability to work collaboratively as a member of multidisciplinary and cross-functional teams.
• Has demonstrated professional documentation and communication skills, as well as demonstrated organizational skills.
• Ability to negotiate and resolve differences.
• Ability to function under pressure in a fast-paced human service environment.
• Ability to be flexible, open and responsive to ongoing industry changes.
• Ability to articulate and communicate Bay Cove's mission and strategic direction in a consistent and enthusiastic manner to departmental staff.
• Ability to identify opportunities and obstacles and develop effective, creative solutions to pursue opportunities.

Physical Requirements

• Ability to go up and down stairs and lift at least 40 lbs.

Other Qualifications:

• An acceptable CORI, SORI and Background records check (for involvement with DCF).
• Master’s degree in Speech Language Pathology with an MA license as CCC-SLP or must be under supervision as a Clinical Fellow working towards independent licensure.
• A COVID-19 vaccination is a requirement of the position. One COVID-19 shot is acceptable, contingent on the individual receiving the second shot within the allotted time frame.

Required Training