Summary
Description
NORTHEAST METRO 916 INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL DISTRICT
VACANCY NOTICE
Date Posted: March 29, 2024
Position Title: School Psychologist
Assignment: Consultation Team
FTE: 1.0 (184 days)
Starting Date: August 2024
Position Overview:
School Psychologists are responsible for helping students succeed academically, socially, behaviorally, and emotionally. They collaborate with educators, administrators, families, and other mental health professionals to create safe, healthy, and supportive learning environments for all students and strengthen connections between home and school. This position will combine providing standard school psychologist responsibilities including assessments for evaluations with designing direct services and supports for Tier 1, 2, and 3 interventions. This position will also include a majority of time spent doing work via consultation requests including professional development, systems evaluation and resource mapping, mental health supports, and a wide variety of other work in collaboration with other highly skilled professionals on our consultation team.
Typical Class Responsibilities:
– Performs psychological evaluations that include: interviewing students, parents or teachers; conducting assessments; determining eligibility for special education; interpreting information; and sharing results.
– Prepares documentation, reports, and/or other correspondence including assessment protocols, evaluation reports, special education need statements, treatment notes, progress reports, and other related paperwork.
– Coordinates the collection of data; collaborates in the development of student support plans; evaluates the methods of assessment and student progress; and collaborates with teams on interventions and training.
– Collaborates, facilitates, and attends meetings with administrators, teachers, staff, related service providers, families, and others to coordinate and provide services.
– Performs other duties of a similar nature or level.
Functional Specific Responsibilities:
– Provides direct services to individuals or groups of scholars (e.g., counseling, crisis interventions, mentoring, and individual safety plans when appropriate).
– Consults with educators, related service providers and administrators to identify interventions and strategies to facilitate scholar skill development.
– Implements appropriate and alternative ways to monitor and assess the effectiveness of interventions and individual scholar progress towards goals.
– Identifies and applies sound principles of behavior change including the social, affective, and adaptive domains of child development while designing and implementing prevention and intervention programs.
– Participates in planning and implementing prevention programs to address the social and affective needs of scholars (e.g., programs to address bullying, school violence and school safety).
– Participates in planning and/or implementing school and system-level crisis response.
– Evaluates the effectiveness of school-based intervention plans using the MTSS model.
Training and Experience Requirements:
Requires the completion of a graduate program in School Psychology, licensed or able to obtain a license from the Minnesota Professional Educators Licensing and Standards Board (PELSB) as a School Psychologist, and two years of related experience.
- This position would not be suitable for an internship year as this position is not a conventional School Psychologist role.
Preferred Qualifications:
– Experience working with scholars with a range of disabilities.
– Experience facilitating individual and group skills work with scholars.
– Experience engaging in Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS), Trauma-informed care, and Restorative Practices.
– Experience engaging in practices that promote home, school, and community partnerships and enhance learning and mental health goals for scholars.
Knowledge Requirements:
– Psychological theory;
– Psychological testing methods;
– Medical disorders;
– Standards of care for psychological problems and presenting problems;
– Treatment strategies and modalities;
– Child development and learning;
– Student behavior strategies and interventions;
– Crisis intervention strategies and techniques;
– Effective teaching strategies;
– Applying local, state, and federal laws, rules, and regulations;
– Recordkeeping principles;
– Computers and related software applications.
Skill Requirements:
– Evaluating, screening and assessing children and students’ behavior;
– Using, administering, scoring, and interpreting psychological tests;
– Assessing competency;
– Recognizing symptoms, signs, and side effects of mental illness;
– Directing and focusing therapy to address identified problem(s);
– Intervening in crises;
– Conducting research;
– Maintaining confidentiality;
– Applying local, state, and federal laws, rules, and regulations;
– Preparing and maintaining records and reports;
– Operating a computer and applicable software applications;
– Communication and interpersonal skills as applied to interaction with coworkers, supervisor, the general public, etc. sufficient to exchange or convey information and to receive work direction.
Physical Requirements:
Positions in this class typically require: reaching, standing, walking, fingering, grasping, feeling, talking, hearing, seeing, and repetitive motions.
Sedentary Work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Walking and standing are required only occasionally.
Commitment to Equity
At Northeast Metro 916, equity means that everyone has access to what they need in order to learn, grow and thrive.
Northeast Metro 916 will not discriminate against individuals based on race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, parental status, status with regard to public assistance, disability, age or sexual orientation.
