JOB TITLE:               Speech Language Pathologist

LOCATION:               McCoy Elementary School

SALARY:                    Teacher Salary Schedule

WORK DAYS:            187 Days - 10 Month Employee

REPORT TO:             Building Principal

FLSA STATUS:          EXEMPT                    

The students of the Yazoo City Municipal School need your talent, expertise, passion and leadership.

We are seeking highly motivated and innovative practitioners to join our team at the YCSD. We seek individuals who are radically relentless about re-envisioning the landscape of public education in Mississippi and making a significant difference in the lives of students, parents, school leaders, teachers, and central office employees.

Currently the Yazoo City School District serves approximately 1900 students in Yazoo City in the Mississippi Delta. As part of the state’s comprehensive transformation effort, the YCSD seeks to become the model for sustainable school and district improvement in areas of the state that have experienced chronic and entrenched underperformance. Over time, the YCSD intends to develop the highest-performing, competitively compensated, and most revered educator workforce in the state known for providing instructional excellence and producing significant outcomes for ALL students.

The district seeks proven instructional leaders with outstanding interpersonal skills who have a passion for working with schools, principals, and communities and who are committed to ensuring all students achieve. Serving a population as diverse as ours requires creativity, commitment, and vision.  

POSITION OVERVIEW

To establish a speech, language, and hearing program that will meet the varying communication needs and skills of individual pupils; that will reflect comprehensive planning and provide for the development of a continuum of services including appropriate procedures for early identification, diagnosis, consultation, referral, habilitation, instruction and evaluation

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES AND EXPECTATIONS:

• Such duties and responsibilities as may be assigned, including, but are not limited to: Implements building/therapy schedules
• Establishes a referral/screening and evaluation system for speech/language services (i.e., articulation tracking for elementary, new referrals, three-year comprehensive reassessments)
• Performs and interprets diagnostic evaluations to determine eligibility and appropriate recommendations
• Serves as a member of the multidisciplinary team in the referral/diagnostic process
• Provides direct/indirect therapy for identified student
• Provides therapy through continuous evaluation and annual updating of individual educational plan
• Be accountable for student status through the use of charts, records, progress reports, etc.
• Supports hearing screening program and provides input assistance when needed
• Provides consulting services to parents, teachers, administrators, and colleagues
• Ensures professional growth and support through scheduled staff meetings and related professional readings, conferences, workshops, or in-services
• Submits reports and schedules eligibility meetings in order to meet timelines compliance requirements of federal and state regulations
• Prepares a schedule of speech students for the principal as early as possible and continue to inform him/her of changes in schedule or students added or deleted
• Demonstrates prompt and regular attendance
• Perform other duties assigned by supervisor

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Mississippi teaching certificate and a master’s degree in speech pathology
• Membership in the Mississippi Speech and Hearing Association and in the American Speech and Hearing Association is preferred. Certification of Clinical Competence in Speech Pathology and certification of the Mississippi Board of Examiners in Speech Pathology is also preferred.

APPLICATION PROCEDURES:

Interested individuals who meet minimum requirements should apply online at www.yazoocity.k12.ms.us  

Questions concerning this vacancy announcement should be directed to:

Melinda Cowan, Director of Human Capital and Talent Management

Yazoo City Municipal School District 

662-746-2125

APPLICATION DEADLINE:

We are accepting applications on a rolling basis.

 Yazoo City Municipal School District is an Equal Opportunity Employer