Notice of Certified Staff Posting
Position: School Psychologist
Posting Dates: February 28, 2025 – Until Filled
Reports To: Director of Special Education
Beginning: August 2025
Qualifications:
- Certification and licensure as a school psychologist in the State of Michigan
- Previous experience in the area of school psychology preferred with background in multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS) and data-based decision-making processes.
Job Responsibilities: - Ability to provide a comprehensive evaluation of student suspected of having a disability and develop recommendations from evaluation
- Knowledge of state and federal special education laws
- Knowledge of multi-tiered systems of support and evidence-based interventions
- Ability to provide leadership to various collaborative groups
- Complete a comprehensive evaluation of students in response to a special education referral
- Participate in educational planning by providing appropriate recommendations for services or programs
- Serve in leadership roles on the MTSS & PBIS team
- Work collaboratively with MTSS and PBIS Team
- Evaluate and track students’ progress and program effectiveness
- Effectively communicate, consult, and team with parents, staff, agencies, and others
- Provide consultation services for students that are at-risk
- Maintain confidential students records
- Support and help develop West Ottawa Public Schools initiatives
- Complete assigned responsibilities within agreed upon or established timelines
- Perform additional tasks, responsibilities, and duties as assigned by Special Education Director
Physical Requirements and Working Conditions: - Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
- Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position to position. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires the substantial use of the upper extremities and back muscles.
- Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
- Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken work; those activities where detailed or import spoken instructions must be conveyed to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
- Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction, and having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and making fine discriminations in sound.
- Repetitive motions: Making substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
- The worker is subject to environmental conditions.
- The worker should provide consistent and reliable attendance.
