Description
Department: Education Support Services
Employment Type: Permanent 12 months
Hours: 36.25 hours per week, Monday thru Friday
Reports to: Director, Education Support Services
Location: Miramichi Education Center (Miramichi 3 days/Bathurst 2 days)
Description
This is professional work in the field of speech language pathology. Employees of this class perform clinical work, according to professional standards and district policies and procedures, involving the screening, identification, assessment, interpretation, diagnosis, rehabilitation, and prevention of communication disorders. Work performed is oriented to client or community needs and may require active participation on interdisciplinary teams, consultation on client waitlists, determination of service delivery options, ongoing assessment, and discharge readiness determination. Work may be performed in a school district and/or community-based settings. Work includes participation in planning and implementation of program activities, and may include quality improvement, performance management and statistical activities, student/parent education and research and may include caseload management and care coordination. Work may include relieving the superior in his/her absence and supervising support personnel. Work is performed independently and is reviewed by a superior. Employees of the Speech-Language Pathologist classification may be required to provide clinical supervision of delegated function (tasks/activities) to Speech Therapy Assistants, guidance, training, and orientation to other speech language pathology staff, students, and other professionals.
N.B. These job duties are the basic and prime duties of the job; related and allied duties may be assigned from time to time as may become necessary to the operation of the service. This position may require travel within the rural schools of the Anglophone North School District.
This assignment reports to the Director of Education Support Services, Bill McGinn.
Qualifications
Master’s degree in Speech Language Pathology or Communication Disorders
Registered and a member in good standing with the New Brunswick Association of Speech Language
Pathologists and Audiologists and eligible for membership with the Canadian Association of Speech Language Pathologists and Audiologists
Written and spoken competence in English is required
Two references
Salary
In accordance with the New Brunswick Union of Public and Private Employees (NBUPPE) Collective Agreement, $2,837.01 to $3,572.49 bi-weekly (effective July 1, 2022).
This is an open competition; however, in accordance with the New Brunswick Union of Public and Private Employees Collective Agreement, should unionized employees under this bargaining group apply, employees shall be selected based on skill, ability and qualifications. Where skill, qualifications and ability are relatively equal amongst union applicants, the vacancy will be filled based on seniority within the bargaining unit. If there are no union applicants, the position will be filled from qualified applicants for this competition. Applicants must clearly demonstrate the essential qualifications to be given further consideration. Subject to the response of this competition, education and/ or experience requirements may be changed. Thank you in advance for applying. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted. The successful applicant will be required to provide a criminal record check and two (2) references by a current Supervisor in a related field.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and promote a scent-reduced environment.
Applications must be received by 4:00 pm on July 2, 2024, through Apply to Education
Applicants must clearly demonstrate the essential qualifications to be given further consideration.
We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.
