Priority Job Posting
Position: Behaviour Interventionist / Education Assistant
Multiple locations: Surrey, Chetwynd, and Tumbler Ridge.
Opportunities also available in Pouce Coupe/Dawson Creek and Fort St. John
Desirable qualifications include: direct education and certification and/or related experience delivering therapy programs to children, experience working with children with Neurodiverse needs.
To send us a job application, email a cover letter and resume to: hello@speechanddevelopment.ca
For those who apply, thank you for your interest. Our management team will only contact those who are selected to proceed to the next step with our staffing process.
Join Our Team
Looking for rewarding work where you play a part in proving therapy services to children? We have a few positions for that!
Currently Seeking:
-Speech Language Pathologist & Assistant,
-Occupational Therapist & Assistant,
-Behaviour Interventionist, and
-Other Service Providers for Children.
To send us a job application, email a cover letter and resume to: hello@speechanddevelopment.ca
For those who apply, thank you for your interest. Our management team will only contact those who are selected to proceed with our staffing process.
Our Team
Aleana Yu
Registered Speech-Language Pathologist (C), Clinic Director
Lia Bowen
Clinic Team Leader – Peace Region
Catherine Russell
Clinic Team Leader – Surrey/Speech & Language Assistant
Omsi Chandi
Front Desk – Surrey
Desiree Waters
Clinic Administration / Office Manager
Julia Panter
Program Manager & Behavioural Interventionist
Alana Tippett
Speech & Language Assistant
Keren Schoenberger
Speech & Language Assistant
Emily Corneliuson
Speech & Language Assistant
Hannah McCarthy
Behavioural Interventionist
Jaiden Powell
Behavioural Interventionist
Kaitlynn Kolppa
Behavioural Interventionist
Leif Mader
Behavioural Interventionist
Supriya Jassal
Behavioural Interventionist
Shirley Hung
Behavioural Interventionist
Harseerat Lalli
Behavioural Interventionist
Mariam Ansari
Behavioural Interventionist
Keerat Bansal
Behavioural Interventionist
Kalissa Beltran
Behavioural Interventionist
Dilsher Athwal
Behavioural Interventionist
Selena Charbonneau
Behavioural Interventionist
Natalia Duff
Behavioural Interventionist
Kattie Brigden
Behavioural Interventionist
Jaskirat Kaur
Behavioural Interventionist
Oliver
Aspiring therapy dog. This goldendoodle puppy loves his tennis ball.
Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP)
Speech-language pathologists (SLP) are regulated health professionals. They have obtained at a minimum a master’s degree in speech-language pathology and must be registered with the province’s regulatory college (College of Speech and Hearing Health Professionals of British Columbia). The SLP provides assessments, treatment and consultation services. Qualified SLPs are solely responsible making clinical decisions using clinical professional judgement and are accountable the assigned therapy activities. They are responsible for supervising the speech-language assistants as they implement your child’s therapy plan.
Communication Health Assistant/Speech-Language Assistant (CHA or SLA)
A speech-language assistant may have a college diplomas or certificates in the field. A CHA/SLA carries out programming as delegated by the supervising SLP. Some of their tasks include following treatment plans, observing and documenting patients’ responses, and performing administrative and support activities. The SLP will monitors your child’s progress through direct observation and discussion with the CHA/SLA. Only an SLP may interpret assessment results and clinical data in order to set therapy targets and make changes to the therapy plan.
Our Autism Program roles: Consultant, Team Leader, and Behavioural Interventionist/Therapy Assistant.
1. The Consultant’s role is to select, monitor, and manager therapy goals. Because the Consultant is responsible for goal creation and management, this role is restricted to a regulated allied health professional. In our clinics, this member of the team is a Speech-Language Pathologist. The Consultant is responsible for staying up to date with the latest research, Autistic voices and perspectives, and ensuring that all therapy sessions are meeting best practice and evidence-based practice standards.
2. The Team Leader’s job is to manage and support the interventionists who are doing the sessions. They monitor intervention fidelity (the right people doing the right things, right) and provide teaching moments to build capacity and awareness in staff (right thinking). The Team Leader is responsible for scheduling both clients and staff and general program organization. Regular check-ins with interventionists are scheduled at least twice a month, a combination of in person and video review.
3. The Interventionist conducts the therapy sessions, using goal set by the Consultant. They are the team member your child sees on the most regular basis. The session frequency is determined by the family’s budget, generally a minimum of 2-hours per week.
Benefits In Joining Us
All Behavioural Interventionists and Therapy Assistants at the Clinic are employees meaning that they are paid a living wage at regular intervals as per employment laws in BC. This ensures that staff are financially supported as they support clients. They can focus on service delivery rather than running their own business as an independent contractor in addition to proving therapy. The clinic provides staff with professional liability insurance, supplied materials, and data management. There are regular clinic-wide staff meetings and continuing education to increase our staff’s skills and capacities as interventionists. Our intention is to ensure service quality control and that these “behind the scenes” factors for our employees will translate into greater staff satisfaction, job retention, and quality of services.
Pediatric Speech & Developmental Services is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All applicants and employees must be: legally entitled to work in Canada and successfully pass a Criminal Record Check.
Currently we only use the Federal Government Job Bank and our website for job postings. Other sites you may see our job opportunities posted on are most likely reposting from the Job Bank. For the most accurate details, please refer to our website or the Job Bank.