Speech Language Pathologist SLP EIDBI Provider

Job description

About Empower Learning


Empower Learning is an ABA and early intervention center in Eagan, Minnesota, serving children and families through Minnesota's EIDBI program. Our team of BCBAs, social workers, and behavior professionals builds individualized, play based programming that helps young children communicate, connect, and grow. We are a close knit clinic that takes documentation, supervision, and family partnership seriously, and we are growing.

The opportunity


We are looking for a licensed Speech Language Pathologist to join our clinical team in a role with real room to grow. You will start as an EIDBI provider, working hands on with our learners on communication, language, and social skills inside our existing program. As Empower stands up its own in house speech therapy line, your license anchors that launch and your role grows into a hybrid EIDBI plus speech therapy position, with pay stepping up to $55 per hour. If you want to help shape a speech program from the ground up rather than slot into one that already exists, this is that opportunity.

Why this role stands out

• Grow into a hybrid EIDBI and speech therapy role, with pay up to $55 per hour as we launch our in house speech line
• Real autonomy: company devices, a budget for materials, and a say in what we bring in for the kids
• A predictable Monday to Friday schedule, 8 to 4, with a paid lunch
• A family friendly agency that works with you on flexible scheduling when you are balancing your own children, including hours that fit around school or childcare
• A collaborative, fully licensed clinical team to lean on (BCBA, LICSW, LSW, and a QSP), not solo work
• The chance to help build a speech program from the ground up

What you will do

• Support the client intake process and help new families get started
• Develop communication and expressive language goals for each child as part of the ITP (individual treatment plan) process
• Deliver direct speech and communication intervention to young children across a range of communication profiles, from emerging and limited verbal speakers and children with speech impairments to learners who are nonverbal or use AAC and sign
• Provide observation and direction (O&D) to behavior staff working with their clients so programming stays effective, clear, and consistent
• Deliver parent and caregiver (family) training so families can carry strategies into the home
• Complete H0032 progress monitoring: review data and graphs, update plans, and make clinical decisions
• Work in a collaborative team alongside other licensed professionals, including BCBAs, LICSWs, and LSWs, and the Qualified Supervising Professional
• Keep clean, timely documentation tied to each child's individual treatment plan
• As the speech line launches, build and deliver medical speech therapy alongside your EIDBI work

What we are looking for


Required

• Master's degree in speech language pathology
• Active Minnesota Speech Language Pathologist license (independent, post clinical fellowship)
• ASHA Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC SLP)
• Eligibility to clear a Minnesota DHS background study (NETStudy 2.0)
• Experience supporting children with autism and related conditions, including learners who use AAC devices, American Sign Language (ASL), and echolalia (echoing)
• A collaborative, team first approach and comfort working inside an ABA and EIDBI setting

Preferred

• Feeding therapy experience, an area of growing need in our clinic
• Comfort and skill supporting children with significant, communication driven behaviors
• Experience coaching adults, including parents and paraprofessionals, not only direct one on one therapy
• Familiarity with ABA principles and naturalistic developmental interventions
• Familiarity with Natural Environment Teaching (NET) and an assent based therapy model
• Familiarity with Gestalt Language Processing and the Natural Language Acquisition (NLA) framework for children who echo
• Skill writing measurable, data based communication and expressive goals and using progress data and graphs to guide decisions
• Interest in program building, especially anyone who has helped stand up a new service or department

Schedule and support


This is a structured, predictable full time role, Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM with a paid lunch. You will carry a balanced caseload that includes direct speech and communication intervention, observation and direction of behavior staff, family training, progress monitoring, clinical decision making, and team collaboration. We keep documentation time manageable so your hours go to the children. You will work alongside an experienced clinical team and a Qualified Supervising Professional. The agency provides company devices and a strong clinical system that makes documenting, writing notes, and collecting data straightforward. Materials and resources not already on hand can be purchased, and you will be able to request items for the center that could benefit the children, their treatment, and clinic productivity.

Pay and benefits

• $38.00 to $45.00 per hour to start, based on experience
• A clear path to up to $55 per hour as the in house speech program launches and your role becomes hybrid
• Paid time off, accrued at 1 hour for every 30 hours worked
• A stipend toward your own health insurance (in place of a group health plan)
• 401k retirement plan (no employer match)
• Assistance with continuing education (CEUs) and license fees, as approved by management
• Supervision and mentorship from an experienced clinical team

How to apply


You can apply either way that works for you:

• Through Indeed, using the Apply button on this listing
• Through our company website careers page at https://www.empowerlearningmn.com/career1

Questions are welcome. You can also reach us at (612) 208-3412 or info@empowerlearningmn.com.