Coordinator for Psychological Services

Coordinator for Psychological Services

Under general supervision assists with ensuring that the district Vision, Mission and Goals are achieved and assists in ensuring that the district's school psychologists and school psychologist interns are in compliance with federal, state, and district regulations and laws related to Individual Comprehensive Evaluations, Re-Evaluations, Functional Behavioral Assessments and other responsibilities of the school psychologists. Reports to the Director of Special Services.

Specific duties and responsibilities include providing mentoring and coaching to school psychologists; consulting with principals and teachers to ensure appropriate supplemental and support services are provided to students with disabilities; assisting with coordination of the implementation of Student Driven Systems of Support (DBSS) including Data Base Interventions (DBI); collaborating with the district Office of Special Services Teams to ensure that district procedures are developed and implemented to meet federal and state requirements regarding identifying, evaluating, and determining eligibility for students with disabilities;

collaborating with the district Quality Assurance and Compliance Team to ensure that the school psychologists are in compliance with federal, state, and district regulations and laws related to Comprehensive Evaluations, Reevaluations, Functional Behavioral Assessments, 504s, Threat Assessments, and other responsibilities of the school psychologists; consulting with and providing feedback to school psychologists on individual student cases or school trends and/or issues;

ensuring that adequate and appropriate psychometric instruments and supplies are available for school psychologists; in consultation with the SDSS team, consulting with administrators and school psychologists to ensure effective core team functioning to develop a three-tiered school-wide system of support within a Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) framework; conducting comprehensive needs assessment to identify school psychologists' training needs; reviewing weekly schedules and monthly reports for school psychologists to assess caseloads based on new referrals, reevaluations, or transfer students and make recommendations for temporary reassignment of personnel or contractual staff;

serving as liaison among general education staff, special services staff, counselors, administrators, etc. in mediation/resolving student issues; serving as a representative on various committees and organizations within the school district and with other agencies; developing and facilitating the delivery of appropriate professional learning opportunities in the areas of special education programs, due process, research-based and evidenced-based instruction methodologies, and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEIA) compliance;

guiding and supporting local school Individual Education Program (IEP) teams, teachers, parents, and administrators with planning, dispute resolution, monitoring, and compliance; identifying the accomplishments, needs, and problems of the program; conducting other activities and completing tasks as assigned by the Director of Special Services in collaboration with the Special Services Teams; making recommendations for class locations, personnel assignments, budgetary needs, class formation, materials, and equipment for program area and cluster area classes;

collaborating with district representatives with the implementation of crisis intervention teams; assisting with implementing district action plan priorities; remaining informed of educational improvements and best practices with regard to school psychology and 504s; serving as a resource for district staff development programs; effectively operating technology; managing the collection of data and meeting deadlines for required information and data reporting; acting as the special education department's communication liaison with all internal and external stakeholders;

analyzing and disseminating student performance data by program and cluster area and making recommendations for increasing student achievement; providing continuous quality improvement to departmental processes; performing continuous evaluation of special education quality and effectiveness and recommending methods to improve operations; completing special projects as needed; performing other duties as assigned.

Additional job functions include performing a variety of general administrative duties as necessary, including preparing correspondence and reports, copying and filing documents, attending school events, etc. Performs related duties as required.

Minimum training and experience include a Master's degree (or equivalent) with at least five years' experience as a School Psychologist and South Carolina State Board of Education Certification as School Psychologist II. While not required, the employee may have SC Licensure by the Board of Examiners for…