Speech Language Pathologist (0.5 FTE)

The Peel District School Board (PDSB) is a racially, culturally and linguistically diverse board that serves 155,000+ students and approximately 17,000 employees.

In PDSB, 87% of students are racialized, non-white, representing 162 different ethnic backgrounds. Students in Peel have 121 different first languages.

Student diversity also exists in terms of gender and gender expression, sexuality and in terms of ability and faith. A responsive and empathetic understanding of the lived experiences of the students and communities we serve is vital to those who will take on leadership roles within the PDSB.

The workforce consists of teachers, office staff, custodial staff, education assistants and professional staff. The workforce is largely unionized through PDSB’s numerous affiliated bargaining agents.

Job Summary

Communication is essential for learning and for living well, whether that be through listening, speaking, reading, writing or using augmentative or alternative means.

Speech Language Pathologists (SLPs) provide a wide variety of communication-enhancing interventions and supports through their work with individual students, groups of students, and educator teams, both inside and outside the classroom.

Schools provide an ideal environment for SLPs to provide authentic goals that maximize literacy, academic, vocational, and social-emotional success for students.

Through collaboration with students, families, and educators, the school SLP can build communication success for all students in a tiered approach to prevention and intervention, that is good for all and necessary for some.

Key Responsibilities

As a Speech Language Pathologist, you must demonstrate excellent interpersonal and organizational skills, creativity, flexibility, and commitment so that you can translate your superior clinical knowledge of communication disorders into the educational setting in order to improve the lives and educational outcomes for students.

You will provide assessment, intervention, consultation and resource support for students from Kindergarten to Grade 12, in regular class and contained class settings, and professional development for others in the school and Board-wide as required.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Speech Language Pathology
• Registered with the College of Audiologists and Speech Language Pathologists of Ontario (CASLPO)
• Demonstrated experience providing speech language services to children, youth and families
• Proven experience as a member of a multi-disciplinary team
• Knowledge of community based speech language services in the Region of Peel
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• 5 years post graduate experience and previous school board employment as a speech language pathologist preferred
• A valid driver's license, use of a vehicle and willingness to work within all regions of Peel District School Board
• Demonstrated commitment to working in a diverse school community and environment.

Additional Notes

This is a school Speech Language Pathologist position; staff will be allocated schools to which to provide SLP services.

The successful candidate will work 2.5 days each week.

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Commitment to Equity, Anti-Oppression and Anti-Racism

The Peel District School Board is committed to equity in employment. We are committed to equitable hiring practices that allow us to hire qualified staff who reflect the full diversity of the Region of Peel.

We will provide reasonable accommodation (e.g. an accessible location, rescheduling of interviews that fall on Days of Significance etc.

based on any of the human rights protected grounds, during the hiring process if advised in advance. We are also committed to inclusion, anti-oppression and anti-racist practices while also supporting the continuous growth and development of an equitable and empowered education system at the PDSB.

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The land upon which we work, live and sustain ourselves is the ancestral and treaty lands of the Miichizaagiig Anishinaabek also known today as the Mississaugas of the Credit, the rightful caretakers and title holders of this land.

We also recognize the rich pre-contact history and relationships which include the Anishinaabek and the Onkwehonwe. Since European Contact, this land continues to be home to Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples.

As responsible community members, we value the diversity, dignity and worth of all people. Colonialism displaced and dispossessed Indigenous peoples of their ancestral lands and continues to deny their basic human rights, dignities and freedoms.

We are committed to learning true history to reconcile, make reparations and fulfill our treaty obligations to the Original Peoples and our collective responsibilities to the land, water, animals, and each other for future generations.

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