School Psychologist

Class

Title:

School Psychologist

Reports To: Director of Special Education

South San Francisco Unified School District

The South San Francisco Unified School District (SSFUSD) community includes 15 schools supporting 8,000 students in Daly City, San Bruno, and South San Francisco.

Our mission is that in partnership with our community, SSFUSD will provide exceptional instruction, engaging experiences, and equitable and accessible opportunities and resources to further support our diverse student body so that students are equipped to learn, thrive, navigate their future with purpose, and impact their community.

In February 2024, the School Board for SSFUSD adopted our new Vision and Five-Year Strategic Plan. Educators are at the heart of our priorities - exceptional instruction, engaged students, purposeful partnerships, empowered educators, and equity-centered systems.

SSFUSD is seeking a dynamic, equity-focused, and inclusive School Psychologist to join our school community. SSFUSD refuses to accept that the educational outcomes of students in our district are overwhelmingly predictable based on students’ race, socioeconomics, ethnicity or learning differences. We remain committed to working each day to examine systemic, institutional, and individual biases in order to dismantle systems of inequities that will enable all students to thrive.

Under the direction of the Director of Special Education/Pupil Personnel Services, the School Psychologist will assess behavioral, social, emotional and academic problems for students at assigned school sites; develop individual prescriptions for treating students in special programs; assist with assigned pupil personnel services programs.

As a School Psychologist in SSFUSD, responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Identifying methods for treatment of problems in both regular and special education programs including recommendation or referral for individual or group counseling; developing behavior modification plan; providing referral to outside agencies such as mental health.
• Performing psycho-educational evaluations including review of records, interviews, assessments, observation and test interpretation; determining program eligibility and placement.
• Counseling with students with behavioral and emotional problems and their parents.
• Setting performance criteria in terms of desired behavioral outcomes and objectives using written, Individualized Educational Programs (IEPs) in collaboration with special education and administrative personnel; providing leadership in development of IEPs and in counseling the IEP team to meet IEP objectives.
• Conducting conferences with parents in child behavior management.
• Managing assigned cases; conducting conferences with teachers, aides, students, principals, therapists and others to identify student progress and resolve student problems.
• Observing students in the classroom setting and on the playground as well as in other areas as applicable.
• Conducting re-evaluation including observation, reviewing reports, reassessment, writing summaries and modifying programs as appropriate; scheduling and conducting follow-ups including periodic check-ups and progress evaluation.
• Performing manifestation determination assessments.
• Assisting, evaluating and participating in mediations and hearings.
• Participating in and coordinating assigned Pupil Personnel Services programs on a District-wide basis as assigned.
• Providing assistance to students and staff in crisis.
• Conducting in-service training for teachers, instructional aides, parents and others as required through individual consultation, small or large groups.
• Conducting home visits as required.
• Performing related duties as assigned.

• Environment:
  • Office environment.
  • Classroom environment during observances.
  • Travel from site to site.
• Physical Demands:
  • Hearing and speaking to exchange information and make presentations.
  • Seeing to monitor students and read a variety of materials.
  • Dexterity of hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard.
  • Sitting or standing for extended periods of time.
  • Bending at the waist, kneeling or crouching.
• Hazards:
  • Contact with hostile or abusive…