Psychoeducator; Replacement

NOTICE NO. 95 POSTING:  PSYCHOEDUCATOR (100%) REPLACEMENT. This 100% replacement position is available July 1, 2026 to work in the Complementary Services Department serving the territory of Riverside School Board.

Join our team and make a difference in the lives of our students! We are currently a team of over 50 professionals.

Our mission is to better support school teams and their students.

We actively participate in multidisciplinary team meetings.

• Scheduled office hours
• Summer holidays
• Winter holiday break
• March break
• The possibility of accumulating additional vacation days
• Statutory holidays
• Paid professional development opportunities
• Retirement pension

The position of psychoeducator encompasses, in particular, responsibility for detecting, evaluating, helping and guiding students experiencing or likely to experience social maladjustments; creating conditions conducive to the development of autonomy and intervention focused on the attitudes and behaviours that adversely affect the students learning and social integration and providing advice and support to school resources and to parents.

• Participates in developing and implementing a psycho educational service that meets the academic and administrative requirements of both the educational institutions and the school board.
• Contributes to the detection of difficulties and identification of students experiencing problems, using an approach focusing on prevention and intervention; plans and conducts psycho educational evaluations to determine the students behavioural assessment and psychosocial needs; collects from school or external resources and parents pertinent information, selects and administers appropriate tests, conducts interviews, makes observations and analyzes data to identify the nature of the problem.
• Works with a multidisciplinary team to draw up and review a student’s individualized education plan by including, in the plan, his or her action plan, if necessary; participates in defining intervention objectives and means; works with other team members to harmonize and coordinate interventions and to assess the achievement of objectives.
• Works with teachers to develop and implement strategies and projects aimed at helping students who are experiencing or who are likely to experience social maladjustments.
• Provides help and advice to school resources and parents of students with social maladjustments; recommends strategies for working with the students and guides them in adopting attitudes and approaches focusing on the development of desirable social behaviours and coping skills; plans, organizes and conducts training activities.
• Plans, organizes and conducts, in conjunction with school or external resources, activities with classes or groups of students experiencing common difficulties or specific problems.
• Designs, adapts or prepares materials based on the needs and abilities of students experiencing social maladjustments.
• Advises management staff, prepares expertise, evaluation, briefing and progress reports and formulates appropriate recommendations to support decision making.
• Provides advice and support to school resources in matters pertaining to the integration of students into regular classes and proposes appropriate intervention means or activities for students.
• Establishes and maintains relationships and collaboration with partner organizations; contacts the other resources concerned to obtain or give advice and information; may refer the student or his or her parents to resources appropriate for the situation and needs.
• May be called upon to help defuse crisis or emergency situations and to propose solutions.
• Prepares and updates files according to the standards related to the practice of the profession and the rules defined by the school board; prepares progress notes or evaluation, end-of-process and follow-up reports on his or her interventions.

• Be a member of the Ordre des psychoducateurs et psychoducatrices du Québec.
• The successful candidate will be able to communicate effectively in English and French.
• Experience facilitating career development courses based on psychological development.
• Training in the area of social emotional learning, the nurture approach and trauma informed intervention.

In accordance with the Professionals Agreement, the salary ranges from $56,670 to $100,410 per year, based on experience and qualifications.

Riverside School Board has implemented an Equal Access Employment Program and encourages applications from women, members of visible and ethnic minorities, Indigenous people and people with disabilities.