National Director of School Psychology

National Director of School Psychology Clinical Excellence and Educational Diagnostics

School Psychology | All National Markets | Reports to the Chief Clinical Officer

Location
- All National Markets

Open Positions - 1 FTE

Employment Type

- W-2 Salaried | Performance Bonus Eligible

Compensation - W-2 salaried position; $98,000 - $120,000; plus performance bonus eligibility; full benefits package including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) with employer match

Licensure Required
- Full, unrestricted school psychologist licensure or certification; active licensure in Tennessee or relevant state of practice

The Role

This is not a supervisory role in the traditional sense. The National Director of School Psychology Clinical Excellence is a senior leadership position responsible for defining, building, and driving Thrive's national standard of practice across school psychology and educational diagnostics. You are not managing a single region. You are setting the clinical bar that every Thrive school psychologist is measured against, in every school, in every state, across every market we operate or will operate.

Who You Are

• A fully licensed school psychologist with deep credibility in psycho educational assessment, eligibility determination, and special education law, who is ready to take that expertise national
• A clinical leader who has already managed clinicians across multiple sites or multiple states, and who is ready to take a national footprint as the next logical scope
• A standard-setter who thinks in systems: you see a gap in diagnostic practice and your first instinct is to build the protocol, the supervision framework, or the dashboard that closes it permanently — and you can show us the artifacts of work you have already done at this scope
• A leader of leaders, comfortable managing a layer of Clinical Supervisors rather than reviewing every evaluation yourself, and confident holding that layer accountable to a national bar
• Data-fluent and outcomes-oriented: you measure success in accurate identifications, appropriate placements, compliance rates, supervisor performance, district NPS, and clinician retention — not in evaluation hours logged or referrals processed
• Fluent in IDEA Part B, state SPED variation across multiple jurisdictions, Medicaid billing for school-based services, and the regulatory texture of running diagnostic operations across multiple states
• Comfortable holding clinical excellence and operational accountability in the same hand, across multiple states, without dropping either
• Deeply invested in the evolution of Thrive Clinical as a purpose-built tool for kids in schools: you are not just a user of the platform, you are a driver of what it becomes, bringing the diagnostic insight that makes it more powerful over time
• An operator with an entrepreneurial mindset who reads a growing national footprint as an invitation to build something lasting, not as a reason to wait for more certainty
• Hungry to learn, including how AI, data tooling, and a purpose-built EHR can make your national team measurably more effective, consistent, and focused on what matters most: every child getting the right identification and the right support
• Driven by mission: you measure success in accurate identifications, appropriate placements, mastery gains, and students who finally get the support that was always theirs to have

What You'll Own

Set and Own the National Diagnostic Standard

• Define Thrive's national framework for psycho educational assessment and eligibility determination, setting the standard for how school psychologists across every market select instruments, conduct evaluations, and document findings
• Build and maintain the diagnostic frameworks, supervision protocols, and practice standards that Clinical Supervisors implement with their supervisee populations across all regions
• Ensure that what excellent diagnostic practice looks like at Thrive is documented, measurable, and consistently applied regardless of geography, district, or state
• Serve as the final clinical authority on diagnostic questions, eligibility interpretation, and assessment protocol disputes across the Thrive network
• Ensure that Thrive's…