Position Start Date

As soon as possible

Salary/Wage

Per Salary Schedule

Terms/Schedule

1.0 FTE, permanent

Appointment Type

Full Time

Description

The School Psychologist is a school based mental health professional working in collaboration with other District professionals to support the implementation of the Equitable Multi-Level System of Supports framework (EMLSS). The School Psychologist provides consultation to administrators, teachers, families, students, support staff, community agencies, and other individuals and agencies through vehicles such as Student Success Teams (SST), Individual Education Plans (IEP) Teams, Parent/Teacher conferences, Parent Education/Advisory Groups, and participation on community boards and task forces. The School Psychologist completes evaluations and functional behavior analyses for students with academic, behavioral, social, or emotional needs while working in collaboration with other Student Services staff. • Data-based decision making, including evals and school-wide assessments. • Consult and collaborate during the problem-solving process for all instructional, mental, and behavioral health services. • Provide interventions and instructional support for academic skills. • Provide interventions and mental health support for social/emotional learning. • Provide, in collaboration with other Student Services staff, school-wide services for effective and supportive learning environments. • Provide prevention and response services, including prevention planning for critical incidents • Provide family-school collaboration services Building Level School Psychologist • Work closely with school staff and administration, and District departments, to create positive outcomes for students • Consult and collaborate with school teams on how to establish school-wide behavioral and academic systems • Promote best practices, such as conducting functional behavioral assessments, utilizing research and evidence-based interventions, and using data-based decision making to inform school practices • Work with school teams on monitoring student progress and using individualized instruction and intervention based on students’ needs • Provide social-emotional and behavioral support to students in the schools. • May provide intervention & mental health support for social/emotional learning and/or interventions & instructional support for academic skills • Work with special education teachers to complete reevaluations for students receiving special education services, if a re-evaluation is needed Evaluation Specialist School Psychologist • Work closely as a team of evaluation specialists to build district systems and practices to complete culturally sensitive evaluations to minimize bias • Completes comprehensive evaluation, deep analysis into root causes and disability related needs with the goal of accurate identification of students with disabilities (addressing disproportionality) • Work together on evaluation teams with other school professionals, including special education coordinators, occupational therapists, physical therapists, speech language pathologists, Talented and Gifted, etc. • Evaluation Specialist School Psychologists will complete initial special education and 504 evaluations