Melinda Webb School is seeking a warm, organized, and flexible Language Teacher to support young children who are deaf or hard of hearing, ages 18 months to 6 years, in a listening and spoken language classroom. This role includes planning and implementing lessons that meet the developmental needs of toddler and preschool children who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Professional Responsibilities

· Plan and adapt daily lessons, classroom activities, and instructional routines to meet individual student needs and support growth in listening, spoken language, vocabulary, social communication, confidence, independence, and early academic skills.

· Create and maintain a classroom environment that encourages communication, independence, curiosity, play, and positive relationships with peers and adults.

· Collect formal and informal student data, complete required assessments, write individualized goals, and use assessment information to plan meaningful instruction and prepare progress reports.

· Provide active supervision during classroom instruction, transitions, lunch, recess, field trips, and school activities.

· Support classroom routines, safety procedures, daily amplification checks, toileting or personal care needs, and minor first aid or medication procedures when needed.

· Communicate with families about student progress, classroom activities, behavior, illness, emergencies, and other school-related concerns in a timely and professional way.

· Collaborate with the Teaching Assistant and school team to support classroom routines, lesson preparation, daily care needs, student progress, and consistent carryover of listening and spoken language strategies.

· Participate in teacher meetings, staff meetings, professional development, school events, and other meetings or functions as needed.

· Pursue Listening and Spoken Language Specialist certification, participate in required mentoring, and complete ongoing professional development to strengthen knowledge and practice in listening and spoken language education.

· Complete 30 hours of continuing education each year to meet childcare licensing requirements and support Texas Rising Star certification.

Physical Requirements

This position requires active supervision of young children, including standing, walking, sitting on the floor or in child-sized furniture, bending, reaching, and lifting classroom materials. The role may also include lifting or carrying a child when needed, outdoor supervision in various weather conditions, and responding safely to child behavior or medical needs.

Qualifications

· Master’s degree in Deaf Education, Speech-Language Pathology, Early Childhood Education, or a related field preferred

· Practicum, student teaching, or classroom experience with young children

· Understanding of child development, listening and spoken language development, speech-language development, and audiology

· Commitment to the mission of Melinda Webb School and the children and families we serve

What We’re Looking For

We are looking for someone who is dependable, organized, flexible, and comfortable working as part of a collaborative school team. Strong communication skills, classroom management, diagnostic teaching skills, professionalism in stressful situations, and comfort using classroom technology, iPads, amplification equipment, and instructional materials are important for this role.

Hours Weekly: 25

Hours Worked: Monday-Friday 8:00 am – 1:00 pm

Starting Salary: Determined by experience

FLSA Status: Exempt

Days worked: 186/year

Benefits:

AvEd Mentoring and Certification

AG Bell Membership

Texas Teaching License Renewal

Supervisory Responsibilities

Teaching Assistant assigned to classroom

·         Serve as the primary front desk associate, ensuring consistent coverage while managing patient access, insurance verification, registration, and payment collection activities

• Assist with routine medical billing workflows, account review, claim status follow-up, payment posting, and billing-related correspondence as assigned. 
• Maintain accurate and timely patient account notes and documentation in the electronic medical record and practice management system. 
• Identify billing discrepancies, missing information, and unresolved account issues and escalate them appropriately. 
• Support denial research, outstanding balance follow-up, and patient account resolution activities as assigned. 
• Verify insurance eligibility and benefits, including copayments, deductibles, coinsurance, coverage limitations, referrals, and authorization requirements. 
• Review and update patient demographic and insurance information and obtain required registration documentation. 
• Communicate estimated patient financial responsibility clearly and professionally before or at the time of service when information is available. 
• Collect copayments, deductibles, self-pay amounts, outstanding balances, and other patient-responsibility amounts; issue receipts and document collections accurately. 
• Assist with approved payment arrangements and route financial exceptions or concerns to the appropriate leader. 
• Support Sliding Fee Scale processes, including application distribution, documentation review, tracking, and patient account updates as assigned. 
• Explain self-pay expectations and approved financial assistance processes to patients and families. 
• Assist with grant-related eligibility, documentation, billing, tracking, reimbursement support, and patient account activity as assigned. 
• Maintain grant-related supporting records and communicate missing information or approaching deadlines to leadership. 
• Greet patients, families, visitors, and vendors in a professional and courteous manner. 
• Check patients in and out, answer and direct telephone calls, schedule or confirm appointments as assigned, and respond to routine patient inquiries.
• Maintain a professional reception area and receive and distribute mail, deliveries, and incoming correspondence.
• Maintain patient confidentiality in accordance with HIPAA regulations and organizational policies. 

Required Skills/Abilities: 

• Excellent customer service and patient-facing communication skills with professional telephone etiquette. 
• Working knowledge of healthcare front desk operations, insurance verification, patient collections, and medical billing processes. 
• Ability to understand and explain insurance benefits and patient financial responsibility accurately and professionally. 
• Experience collecting copayments, deductibles, self-pay balances, and outstanding patient balances. 
• Strong attention to detail, organization, time management, and follow-through. 
• Ability to prioritize multiple responsibilities in a fast-paced environment and work independently or as part of a team. 
• Professional personal presentation and a “can-do” attitude with willingness to learn new processes and technologies. 
• Experience using payer websites and internet-based tools for insurance verification, claim status, and account research. 
• IMS experience preferred; onsite training will be provided. 
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. 
• Ability to use standard office equipment, including computers, scanners, fax machines, copy machines, iPads, and postage equipment. 
• Bilingual English and Spanish preferred, with strong oral and written communication skills. 

Education and Experience Requirements: 

• High school diploma or equivalent required; associate degree or relevant healthcare training preferred. 
• Minimum two (2) years of experience in a healthcare front desk, patient access, physician office, pediatric office, medical office, or medical billing role required. 
• Prior patient-facing experience verifying insurance eligibility and benefits, updating insurance information, and collecting patient payments required. 
• Working knowledge of medical billing and patient account follow-up required. 
• Experience with commercial insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, managed care plans, self-pay, Sliding Fee Scale, financial assistance, or grant-supported services preferred. 
• Experience using electronic medical records and practice management systems preferred. 

Responsibilities / Duties:

• Independently manage enrollment from application submission through confirmed payer effective date.
• Complete initial credentialing and recredentialing for all providers.
• Submit and monitor provider enrollment applications.
• Complete and track provider, group, facility, and new-location enrollments across government and commercial payers.
• Manage revalidations, demographic updates, reassignment, and change-of-information submissions.
• Resolve stalled, deficient, returned, or complex enrollment cases through persistent payer follow-up and escalation.
• Maintain a master enrollment tracker with application status, aging, barriers, follow-up dates, and confirmed effective dates.
• Identify and escalate enrollment-related revenue risks that may delay claims, billing, or cash collections.
• Coordinate with billing and revenue cycle staff to prevent or resolve enrollment-related claim and reimbursement delays.
• Serve as an internal subject-matter resource for payer enrollment requirements and portal processes.
•          Maintain provider files and credentialing documentation.
•          Maintain CAQH, PECOS, TMHP/PEMS, and other payer portals.
•          Track expiration dates for: Medical licenses/ DEA registrations/ Board certifications/ Professional liability insurance/ CPR certifications (if applicable)
• Recredentialing cycles
• Prepare weekly credentialing reports
• Identify providers approaching expiration or termination.
•           Follow up with payers until providers are confirmed in-network.
•          Maintain provider enrollment status reports.
•          Ensure compliance with payer enrollment requirements.
•          Assist with provider contracting activities.
•          Coordinate payer participation requests.

•          Communicate enrollment or contracting issues to leadership.

     ·   Monitor credentialing and enrollment timelines.

  
  

·      Education and Experience Requirements:

• High school diploma or equivalent required; associate or bachelor degree preferred
• Minimum 5 years of direct provider enrollment and credentialing experience in a provider organization, managed care plan, medical staff services department, or credentialing verification organization; 5-7 years preferred for senior-level placement.
• Working knowledge of Texas Medicaid (TMHP/PEMS), Medicare (PECOS), CHIP, and commercial payer enrollment requirements.
• Experience maintaining CAQH provider profiles.
• Working knowledge of provider contracting and payer enrollment processes.
• Understanding of healthcare regulatory and compliance standards.
• Strong organizational and follow-up skills 

Supervisor: Controller

Texas Hearing Institute (THI) | Houston, TX

Schedule: Flexible, estimated 20 hours/week, maintain a 3.0 GPA

Compensation: Stipend 

About Us

Texas Hearing Institute is a Houston-based nonprofit dedicated to serving individuals with hearing loss. Our programs include audiology, speech therapy, family services, and the Melinda Webb School. The Finance team supports all of these programs by keeping operations running smoothly and the organization's books accurate.

Position Summary

We are looking for a current student to join our Finance team as an Accounting Intern. In this role, you will support our Controller by starting the transactional accounting work that the month-end close and other Finance priorities depend on, including accounts payable, payroll data entry, and reconciliations, so that work keeps moving without delay. This is hands-on exposure to nonprofit accounting operations, working closely with and reporting to the Controller.

What You Will Do

·         Process vendor payments and employee expense reimbursements, and prepare checks for approval

·         Verify purchasing policy compliance and maintain vendor files, including credit card transaction support

·         Prepare the biweekly Open Invoice listing for the Controller's review

·         Compile timesheets and Personnel Action Forms and assist with semi-monthly payroll processing

·         Prepare monthly account, bank, and credit card reconciliations for the Controller's review

·         Maintain daily deposit logs for checks and ACH transactions processed

·         Support recordkeeping for fixed assets and the depreciation schedule

·         Take on other duties and special projects as assigned by the Controller

What We're Looking For

·         Currently enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program, preferably in accounting, finance, or business

·         Comfortable working in Excel and Microsoft Office

·         Strong attention to detail and organizational skills

·         Ability to handle confidential financial information with discretion

·         Reliable and able to commit to an estimated 20 hours per week on a flexible schedule

·         Interest in nonprofit finance and accounting is a plus

Schedule and Compensation

·         Flexible scheduling to accommodate class schedules; estimated 20 hours per week required

·         This is a stipend-based position 

The audiology department at Texas Hearing Institute is seeking highly motivated Doctor of Audiology students to complete an exciting and challenging fourth-year externship in pediatrics. This full-time externship will provide doctoral students with opportunities to learn about disorders of hearing in childhood, participate as a member of an interdisciplinary team, and develop the clinical skills necessary to enter the professional world as a pediatric audiologist.

PEDIATRIC HEARING ASSESSMENT AND TECHNOLOGY

At Texas Hearing Institute, we specialize in diagnostic testing to rule out or identify hearing loss in children. When hearing loss is identified, we collaborate with caregivers using a family-centered approach to determine optimal intervention and/or treatment options. Texas Hearing Institute audiology protocols are current, evidence-based, and follow best practices.

MELINDA WEBB SCHOOL

The Melinda Webb School (MWS) is located on-site within Texas Hearing Institute and is an auditory-oral school for students who are 18 months old through 6 years of age. Audiology externs assist MWS staff with troubleshooting and daily listening checks of personal hearing technology and HAT.

Deadline for Submission of Applications: Applications must be postmarked by Monday, September 1, 2026

Send Completed Applications via E-mail or Mail to:

Jessica Spiro, Au.D., CCC-A, CH-AP

Assistant Director of Audiology

Texas Hearing Institute

3100 Shenandoah

Houston, Texas 77021-1042

jspiro@texashearing.org

Application Checklist

Please provide us with the following information:

    Contact Information

·         Name:

·         University:

·         Expected Date of Graduation:

·         Total Number of Adult Clinical Hours:

·         Total Number of Pediatric Clinical Hours:

·         Phone Number:

·         E-mail Address:

     Curriculum Vitae

Please include the following:

1.        Describe your clinical experience, including the name and dates of each placement. For each placement:

a.        include a brief description of the populations served

b.        the percentage of pediatrics seen, and

c.        the specific audiologic skills mastered.

2.      Languages that you speak/write fluently other than English, if applicable.

3.      Note any audiology-related special skills, abilities or talents you would like us to know about.

4.      Briefly describe any volunteer activities related to the field of audiology that you feel are pertinent.

     Letter of Intent

Using an essay format, please answer the following questions:

1.        How did you hear about our externship program and why are you considering an externship at Texas Hearing Institute?

2.        Why do you want to be a pediatric audiologist?

3.        What do you hope to achieve during your externship?

4.        How will your externship benefit your professional development?

6.     Specific to audiology, what are you particularly passionate about? What sparks your interest?

     Two Letters of Reference (Must come directly from your supervisor)

1.      One from your university clinic supervisor

2.      One from an off-campus clinic supervisor

     Official Transcript/Grades from Your Graduate University

·         Must be sent directly from your school either via e-mail or mail

     Passing Praxis Score

·         The student or selected extern must submit proof of a passing Praxis score prior to your projected externship start date of June 1, 2027.

Additional Instructions:

1. Applications that are late or incomplete will not be considered. The student is responsible for ensuring all materials have been submitted. Submitted materials will not be returned.

2. Once your application materials have been received, you may be contacted for an initial phone interview.

3. Following those initial phone interviews, you will be notified if you have been selected for an in-person and/or a Zoom interview with the Audiology team.

4. Once an offer is made, you will have four days to accept the offer. All offers will be extended and finalized prior to Friday October 2, 2026.