Educational Services
Staff the Clinical, Therapy, and Support Roles Your District Depends On
At Judge, we understand how hard it has become for school districts to fill the clinical and support roles students rely on. Specialized positions remain open for months, qualified school psychologists are scarce, and students with IEP-mandated services wait for care they're entitled to receive.
Districts need a staffing partner who understands school operations beyond just healthcare recruiting, including IEP processes and student development. Our school-based staffing services are designed to help districts quickly secure qualified professionals and maintain continuity of care for students.
Judge sources qualified, school-experienced professionals from a nationwide network and manages credentialing and compliance, so your team can focus on serving students.
Why Judge?
When you partner with Judge Healthcare, you gain access to school-based staffing services purpose-built for educational environments. Whether you're filling a single hard-to-staff therapy role, covering a caseload for the school year, or building out a special education team, we source the right school-based professionals to help you meet your obligations to students.
Expertise in School-Based Roles
We bring decades of expertise in school-based healthcare staffing and we understand the nuances of how clinical work in these environments operates, from supervision requirements to state reimbursement.
Specialists in Short-Supply Positions
Therapy, psychology, and imaging-adjacent roles are among the hardest healthcare positions to fill because the training pipeline is long and graduates are hired almost immediately. We actively recruit in these scarce specialties, including passive candidates already employed elsewhere, rather than relying on whoever happens to be between jobs.
W2 Employment That Protects the District
Our W2 employment model shields your district from liability and ensures full HR, legal, and FMLA support for every staff member we place.
Complete Compliance and Credentialing Management
From licensure verification and certification checks to background screening and onboarding, we manage the full compliance process, ensuring every placement meets district, state, and federal standards.
Our Educational Services Solutions
Full Range of Roles Staffed
As part of our school-based staffing services, Judge identifies and places qualified candidates on full-time, contract, and contract-to-hire bases across K–12 districts, charter networks, and education service agencies. We staff a variety of roles, including:
- Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) and SLP Assistants
- School Psychologists
- Occupational Therapists (OTs) and Certified Occupational Therapy Assistants (COTAs)
- Physical Therapists (PTs) and Physical Therapist Assistants (PTAs)
- School Nurses (RN, LPN, LVN)
- Audiologists
- Special Education Teachers
- Behavioral Health Specialists and Counselors
- Board Certified Behavior Analysts (BCBAs)
- Paraeducators and Instructional Aides
- Personal Care Assistants and Health Aides
- Certified Medical Assistants
Settings and Specialties We Cover
We understand that school-based care happens across diverse settings and student needs. We provide professionals specialized in the following areas:
- Speech and language services within IEP teams
- School psychology and student evaluation
- Occupational and physical therapy (school-based and home-based for students)
- School health and chronic-condition management
- Special education instruction (self-contained, resource, and inclusion models)
- Behavioral and mental health support
- Audiology and hearing services
- Daily support and behavior-plan implementation
Credentialing and Governing Bodies
Quality and compliance are at the core of our school-based staffing solutions. We verify every placement against the appropriate state and national bodies before they start, including:
- ASHA certification (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association) for SLPs and audiologists
- State special education teaching certification
- State OT/PT licensure boards
- RN, LPN, and LVN nursing licensure
- BCBA certification for behavior analysts
- Certified Medical Assistant (CMA) and Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) verification
- Background checks and onboarding to district, state, and federal standards
Frequently Asked Questions
Judge staffs speech-language pathologists, school psychologists, occupational and physical therapists (and OTAs/PTAs), school nurses (RN, LPN, LVN), audiologists, special education teachers, behavioral health specialists, BCBAs, paraeducators, instructional aides, personal care assistants, and certified medical assistants for K–12 districts, charter schools, and education service agencies.
Both. Judge places SLPs, OTs, PTs, school psychologists, and other professionals on contract (often for the school year), contract-to-hire, and direct-hire bases, depending on what the district needs.
We manage the full compliance process: licensure verification against the appropriate state boards and national bodies (such as ASHA for SLPs and audiologists, state special-education certification, OT/PT licensure, and RN/LPN/LVN nursing licensure), certification confirmation (including BCBA, CMA, and CNA), background checks, and onboarding. This ensures that every placement meets district, state, and federal standards.
Special education directors, student services and pupil-services leaders, district HR, and superintendents’ offices — usually when a clinical or support role has gone unfilled long enough to put IEP-mandated services or student safety at risk.
Yes. The professionals we place work within IEP teams and understand how therapy and support goals connect to educational objectives, supervision requirements, and the realities of school schedules and shared spaces.
For hard-to-fill, credential-heavy roles, direct hiring can leave positions open for months, and open positions mean unmet student services and compliance exposure. Judge sources scarce specialists (including passive candidates), manages credentialing and compliance, and carries employment liability through a W2 model, which is faster and lower-risk than recruiting these roles in-house.
Subject-matter expertise in school-based clinical roles, active recruiting in short-supply specialties rather than reliance on unemployed candidates, full compliance and credentialing management, and a focus on continuity of care that reduces mid-year service disruptions.
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