Hiring for your school is never an easy task. You want to make sure the person you find has the right skills, personality, and goals to fit into your school’s unique culture. You want to make sure students will not only like them, but respect them, and they will feel at home in your halls. Making the perfect hire for your school can seem overwhelming, when there’s already so much work on your plate.
What can make that even harder is when you are looking to fill a niche therapy or teaching role. Finding the exact right fit employee to match the hours they are needed in your school weekly, that has their discipline’s best practices at hand, and who can be most effective for your students can feel like a full-time job on its own.
What Roles Are Hard to Fill in a School?
Speech Language Pathologist – An SLP in schools is responsible for assisting students with speech-language-related concerns like dyslexia, auditory processing or language disorders, and social communication skills. Their work includes not only prevention and assessment but also intervention and IEP program design.
Occupational Therapist – A school’s OT manages the physical, cognitive, and sensory components of their students’ performance. They focus mainly on academic goals, transitional and self-care skills, play and leisure, and peer participation. These professionals must also be able to perform activity analysis and modifications to reduce barriers keeping their students from participating.
Physical Therapist – As a specialist in movement, a physical therapist in schools assists students in their physical participation throughout the school day. A school PT is on staff to ensure their students have physical access to their education and to maximize students’ quality and skill of movement.
Social Worker – A school social worker has an essential role in providing services to students. Their goal is to enhance students’ emotional well-being and improve their academic performance. School social workers are also responsible for helping students (as well as families and teachers) address the effects of physical, emotional, or economic issues.
Special Education Teacher – Special education teachers work with students who have learning, mental, emotional, and/or physical disabilities. Their goal is to adapt general education lessons and teach basic skills to their students. They must also create IEPs to help each student meet their individual goals and needs.
How Can You Hire Better Employees For Your School?
If you are looking to hire a speech language pathologist, occupational therapist, physical therapist, social worker, or special education teacher in your school, Spotter Staffing is here to help you! We have pools of specialized therapists and educators who are vetted, qualified and ready to get to work for you. Want to know more? Click here to contact Spotter Staffing today!