Job Description:

The School Psychologist is the second level of a two level series. Incumbents are responsible for applying skills and knowledge of modern psychology, within the professional scope of practice of psychology, to the process of educating children in conjunction with students, teachers, administrators, and other District staff including the supervision of School Psychologist Interns. Duties include providing school-based collaboration and consulting to eliminate or reduce student learning and behavioral problems and to increase skill levels of teachers, parents, administrators and other key staff; evaluating students for purposes of diagnosis of disabilities, educational planning, and compliance with assessment plans; providing primary, secondary and tertiary mental health services; critically examining, delimiting, and communicating findings of medical and psychoeducational research literature and implications for children’s learning, education environments, and behavioral processes to teachers, parents and administrators; determining how rights of parents and children effect decision making at critical junctures; coordinating school problem solving teams; and providing systems level collaboration by linking with external mental health resources to best address the mental health and learning needs of students. Incumbents supervise staff performing a full range of supervisory duties including directing work, training and coaching, discipline, and performance evaluation. Incumbents may be working supervisors and as such may be responsible for performing the same duties as those they supervise. The School Psychologist is distinguished from the School Psychologist Intern in that the former supervises the delivery of services by the latter.