Position: School Psychologist
Reports to: Principal and Special Education Director
Employment Status: Regular/Full-time
Status: Administration
Contract Days: 210
Description: We are looking for a compassionate school psychologist to work with our students, their families, and faculty members. The school psychologist's responsibilities include administering psychological evaluations, providing counseling, making diagnoses, and contributing to the development of learning programs. The school psychologists will conduct individual or intervention-based evaluations to assist school staff and parents; effectively meet the academic, behavioral and social-emotional needs of children, consult with educational staff to develop intervention plans along with individualized learning and/or behavioral plans for students.
To be successful as a school psychologist you should be able to successfully aid students in their personal and academic development. Ultimately, an outstanding School Psychologist is compassionate and committed to students' well-being.
NOTE: The below lists are not ranked in order of importance
Essential Job Functions:
- Promote child growth and development through the school program
- Assist with student 504 plans
- Expert to share knowledge and understanding of special education regulations
- Must be available to staff and parents for consultation
- Engaging and counseling teachers, parents, and caregivers about issues.
- Researching and implementing intervention programs.
- Developing programs to address behavioral issues and learning difficulties.
- Counsel individually and in groups with children and students with disabilities and/or their parents
- Provide screening programs for children, if necessary
- Provide referral to and consultation with outside service agencies, if necessary
- Conduct individual psycho-educational evaluations of children; interpret findings, when appropriate, to parents, teachers and other school personnel, child and qualified community agencies through conferences and written reports
- Participate in the identification and placement of children with disabilities
- Recommend appropriate classroom management strategies and interventions for RtI and behavior management plans
- Responsible for implementing new practices or methods in the area of school psychology and the RtI process
- Attend meetings and in-services as required
- Maintain respect at all times for confidential information
- Provide the results of psycho-educational evaluation for consideration in the development of IEP's for each student with a disability
- Provide intensive psycho-educational evaluation of individual children identified as, or thought to have a disability
- Assume case manager responsibility for individual students for the assessment phase and evaluation team report writing portions of child study
- Maintain accurate and complete records as required
- Provide guidance to students to promote their educational development
- Collaborate with colleagues
- Assist the administration in implementing all procedures and rules governing the preschool program and legal mandates
- Observe ethics of the teaching profession
- Keep abreast of all rules and regulations regarding special education standards
Other Duties and Responsibilities:
- Promote good public relations
- Provide mental health activities for children within the scope of school-based practice
- Maintain Medicaid logs, if required
- Participate on building level teams and/or teacher based teams and/or district level "teams"
- Serve as a role model for students
- Respond to routine questions and requests in a timely, appropriate manner
- Establish and maintain cooperative professional relationships
- Assist in the selection of textbooks, equipment, and other educational materials
- Participate in committees, study teams, and cocurricular activities as agreed upon
- Participate in intervention assistance team and parent meetings
- Maintain and improve professional competence by attending professional seminars, workshops, etc. to keep current on relevant issues
- Counsel, advise, encourage, and motivate students
- Perform other duties as assigned by Director of Special Education or Principal
Qualifications:
- Master's degree in educational psychology or equivalent from a four-year college or university
- Appropriate State of Ohio certifications/license
- Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Superintendent and/or Board of Education may find appropriate
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Knowledge of all preschool standards and legal mandates
- Ability to work effectively with others
- Ability to communicate ideas and directives clearly and effectively both orally and in writing
- Effective, active listening skills
- Organizational and problem solving skills
- Specialized skill in evaluation procedures for student academic/behavioral problems
- Ability to operate various office equipment
- Basic skills in counseling and consultation
- Knowledge of educational psychology
- Computer/word processing skills
Additional Working Conditions: - Occasional evening/weekend/summer work
- Occasionally lift, carry, push and pull various items up to a maximum of 50 pounds, e.g., classroom materials and supplies
- Frequent requirement to sit, stand, walk, hear, see, read, crouch, kneel, balance and stoop
- Possible requirement to travel
- Occasional exposure to high heat index temperatures and low wind chill temperatures
This job description is subject to change and in no manner states or implies that these are the only duties and responsibilities to be performed by the incumbent. The incumbent will be required to follow the instructions and perform the duties required by the incumbent’s supervisor, appointing authority.
Garfield Heights City Schools is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of sex, genetic information, race, color, age, religion, disabilities, military status, sexual orientation, or national origin in its programs and activities, including employment opportunities.
Application Deadline: Until position has been filled.
To Apply: On-line
