SY School Psychologist; pool

SY 25-26 School Psychologist (pool)

Savannah-Chatham County Schools EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN - Savannah, Georgia. Open in Google Maps.

Posted by Savannah‑Chatham County Public

• Job : 5006802
• Final date to receive applications: Mar 24, 2026 11:59 PM (Eastern Standard Time)
• Posted: Feb 24, 2025 12:00 AM (UTC)
• Starting Date: To Be Determined

PRIMARY FUNCTION
:
To provide school psychological services related to the identification of and services for students with disabilities.

REPORTS TO
:
Program Manager, Special Education.

SALARY SCHEDULE
:
Teacher.

WORK DAYS
: 200.

Education Level:

• Educational Specialist degree from an accredited university.
• OR Master’s degree from an accredited university and
• (I) Completion of a National Association of School Psychologists (NASP)-approved School Psychology program; or
• (II) Submission of a valid National Certified School Psychologist (NCSP) credential issued by the National School Psychology Certification Board.

Experience, Skill and Certification: Valid Georgia Certificate in School Psychology.

Preferred Experience:

• Previous full-time school psychological services experience, including psycho-educational diagnostic testing.
• Experience as a teacher and/or related school experience.
• Experience in developing academic and behavioral interventions for the Response To Intervention (RTI) process.

• Provides school psychological services to students in the public schools by means of psychological-educational tests, observation procedures, and consultations with administrators, teachers, and parents.
• Communicates results and conclusions of evaluations as related to instruction.
• Completes comprehensive written reports according to departmental guidelines, accurately and punctually.
• Creates academic and behavioral interventions.
• Upholds the highest standards of confidentiality.
• Participates in RTI, special education eligibility, and placement committees, as required by state guidelines.
• Follows policies regarding psychological services consistent with federal, state, and local requirements.
• Maintains records and statistical data of all activities.
• Demonstrates effective methods of delivering psychological services with particular concern for fair and accurate assessment and interpretations.
• Assists in staff development activities.
• Functions as a cooperative team member with site personnel.
• Uses program evaluation data to provide information to the Special Education Program Manager.
• Works with school-wide and grade level data teams to examine effectiveness of academic interventions and/or school-wide behavior approaches.
• Provides consultation to discipline teams.
• School psychologists, in collaboration with others, promote preventive and responsive services that enhance learning, mental and behavioral health, and psychological and physical safety and implement effective crisis prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery.
• Facilitate family and school partnerships and interactions with community agencies to enhance academic and social–behavioral outcomes for children.
• School psychologists implement evidence-based strategies to enhance services in both general and special education and address potential influences related to diversity.
• School psychologists demonstrate an understanding and promote appreciation for diversity.
• Performs other duties as necessary for the effectiveness of the organization.

Incumbents will receive an annual contract. The work calendar will be 200 days. Salary will be based on highest level of certification and allowable experience. Exempt. Revised 05/22.

A responsibility is considered to be “non-essential” (for the purposes of compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act) if:

• it is shared between multiple incumbents in the job; or
• it could be performed by an employee in another job within the workgroup.

Note the responsibility number from the list in the “Duties and Responsibilities” section for those responsibilities that could be considered “non-essential” based on this definition.

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