School Psychologist

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Qualifications:

• The willingness to work as a team member with a variety of individuals and take directions from supervisors.
• Ability to communicate effectively and function cooperatively with students, teachers, parents, and administrators individually and in a group.
• Initiative that will lead to continued program improvement and development.
• Must have, or be able to obtain, and maintain a valid Kansas driver's license.
• Must have and maintain a dependable means of transportation.

Certificate/License Requirements:

Hold or be eligible for Certification as a School Psychologist in Kansas levels EC-12.

Performance Responsibilities:

• Be a contributing member of the General Ed Intervention team.
• Assess difficulties of referred students through appropriate diagnostic evaluations.
• Attend and provide the staffing team with recommendations for programming/placement for all students evaluated.
• Develop detailed written report of each evaluation summarizing the results of the evaluation and listing appropriate recommendations.
• Conduct individual and/or group therapy for children with disabilities whose IEP designates such a service.
• Consults with teachers, administrators, and parents on special educational needs of students with disability.
• Interpret the school psychological evaluation results to teachers, administrators and parents.
• Attends staff, professional, and interagency meetings, as needed.
• Maintain proper license/certificate.
• Maintain a log of activities as directed to meet local, state, and/or federal guidelines.
• Responds to crisis situations to provide mental health support to students and staff.
• Responds to other duties as assigned by NKESC Administrators.

Physical Abilities:

• Exhibit manual dexterity to dial a telephone, to enter data into a computer, to see and read a computer screen and printed materials with or without vision aids; hear and understand speech at normal classroom levels, outdoors and on the telephone; speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly in normal classrooms, outdoors and on the telephone; and physical agility to reach overhead.
• Ability to move between schools, school buildings and multiple rooms.
• Ability to interact with students that meet their physical, emotional and psychological needs.

Terms of Employment:

Per negotiated agreement.

Evaluation:

Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with provisions of the USD #602 Board of Education's policy on Evaluation of Professional Personnel.