Lead Speech-Language Pathologist (Lead SLP)

mindfulsprouts; Deerfield Beach (FL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bi-weekly performance bonus

Health, Dental, and Vision insurance

Up to 20 days paid vacation and 5 days

Sick time

Employee Referral Program Bonus

Annual salary increases

Job summary

Mindful Sprouts is seeking a Lead Speech-Language Pathologist to guide the pediatric Speech Therapy Department. You will provide direct patient care while shaping clinical standards, workflows, and documentation, fostering collaboration, accountability, and compassionate care.

You will recruit and mentor SLPs and clinical fellows, supervise SLPAs, manage supervision plans and quality initiatives, and partner with executive leadership to drive growth, service development, and patient outcomes.

Qualifications

• Master’s or doctoral degree in Speech-Language Pathology and active Florida SLP license.
• CCC-SLP and eligibility to mentor Clinical Fellows.
• Minimum five years of pediatric clinical experience and two years in leadership.

Responsibilities

• Build and scale the department, including service model, standards, workflows, documentation tools, outcomes measures, and staffing plan.
• Lead recruitment, onboarding, training, coaching, performance management, and retention of SLPs and support staff.
• Complete pediatric evaluations, develop evidence-based plans of care, provide skilled therapy, and manage complex cases.
• Maintain compliant documentation, supervision plans, and performance reviews.
• Coordinate with other departments and leadership to support efficient services.

Skills

Leadership experience

Clinical mentoring

Strong clinical judgment

Communication

Pediatric SLP

Education

Master’s or doctoral degree in Speech-Language Pathology

Job description

About the Job

The Lead Speech-Language Pathologist (Lead SLP) serves as the clinical and operational leader of the Speech Therapy Department at Mindful Sprouts. This role is responsible for ensuring the delivery of exceptional, evidence-based speech-language services while fostering a culture of clinical excellence, collaboration, accountability, and compassionate care.

The Lead SLP provides direct patient care while overseeing the performance, development, and clinical quality of the Speech Therapy team. This individual partners closely with executive leadership to improve department operations, drive quality initiatives, support strategic growth, and ensure every family receives outstanding service. The ideal candidate is an experienced pediatric Speech-Language Pathologist with strong leadership abilities, excellent clinical judgment, and a passion for mentoring clinicians and building high-performing teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and scale the Speech Therapy Department, including its service model, clinical standards, policies, workflows, documentation tools, outcome measures, and staffing plan.
• Lead the recruitment, onboarding, training, coaching, performance management, and retention of SLPs, Clinical Fellows/provisional licensees, and SLPAs.
• Complete pediatric evaluations, develop evidence-based plans of care, provide skilled therapy, and serve as the primary resource for complex clinical cases.
• Maintain a clinically appropriate direct-care caseload while ensuring timely, accurate, medically necessary, and payer-compliant documentation.
• Serve as the designated supervisor or mentor for SLPAs, provisional licensees, and Clinical Fellows when assigned.
• Maintain required supervision plans, competency records, observation schedules, performance reviews, regulatory notifications, and coverage arrangements.
• Monitor clinical quality, outcomes, documentation, authorizations, supervision compliance, incidents, family concerns, and corrective actions.
• Track department KPIs, including client access, clinician utilization, cancellations, documentation timeliness, outcomes, family experience, retention, and growth.
• Coordinate with Intake, Scheduling, Credentialing, Authorizations, Billing, Compliance, and executive leadership to support efficient and compliant services.
• Coordinate with BCBAs, RBTs and other treating professionals to coordinate care while maintaining appropriate clinical boundaries and discipline-specific judgment.
• Advise executive leadership on staffing, resources, service development, and responsible department growth.

Required:

• Master’s or doctoral degree in Speech-Language Pathology and an active, unrestricted Florida SLP license in good standing.
• Current ASHA Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC-SLP) and eligibility to serve as a Clinical Fellowship mentor.
• At least five years of pediatric clinical experience, including work with children with autism or other developmental needs.
• At least two years of clinical leadership or supervisory experience, including demonstrated experience supervising SLPAs.
• Strong pediatric clinical judgment and knowledge of evaluations, plans of care, medical necessity, payer requirements, and EMR documentation.
• Excellent leadership, communication, coaching, organization, problem-solving, and conflict-resolution skills.
• Ability to satisfy background screening, credentialing, payer enrollment, exclusion-screening, and employment requirements.
• Valid driver’s license, reliable transportation, and ability to work primarily on-site.

Preferred:

• Experience building or expanding a pediatric therapy department or working collaboratively with ABA providers.
• Experience with pediatric feeding and swallowing, AAC, Florida Medicaid, quality assurance, or payer audits.
• Bilingual proficiency in English and Spanish.

Benefits:

• Bi-weekly performance bonus.
• Competitive salaried employee (W2) based on experience, expertise, and attitude.
• Up to 20 days of paid vacation and 5 days of sick time.
• Health, Dental, and Vision insurance upon regularization.
• Employee Referral Program Bonus
• Annual salary increases with a predictable percentage increasebased on performance review.

Terms and conditions apply.