School Psychologist

Compensation Range: $65-70/hour
Location:Westland, MI;
Onsite - School Setting

The school psychologist will work to help students address and resolve personal, emotional, and social problems that interfere with their adjustments to school and their capacity to enjoy the fullest benefits of the education offered to them. The school psychologist may have assigned responsibilities for evaluation, consultation, and other services with our district partners at the elementary and high school levels.

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• Shift details:
  School Day Schedule
• Hours per week: 34.75hours per week
• Contract length:
  School Year

• Creates a welcoming and positive climate and culture.
• Exhibits a commitment to the District's Shared Vision and Collective Commitments
• Integrates data obtained from tests and from other sources of information and communicates these findings to other professionals, parents, and pupils in a meaningful way.
• Provides school psychological services to any student in need of such services.
• Collaborates with staff in planning educational intervention, curriculum, behavioral management, and teaching strategies.
• Directly intervenes during crises (e.g. suicidal assessments) to ensure safety or in the case of tragedy (e.g. traffic fatality) to lower distress.
• Responds to threatening behaviors by investigating the reasons behind the threat and recommends interventions designed to lower the likelihood of violent behavior to ensure the safety of all students and to eliminate sources of provocative behaviors (e.g. harassment, bullying) that impacted the student reacting due to victimization.
• Contributes to initial problem identification or the likely nature of a student, classroom, or school problem to help develop intervention efforts as part of a problem-solving team.
• Accurately identifies, through comprehensive evaluations, students' specific strengths and weaknesses, helpful evidence-based intervention options, and eligibility for an accommodation plan (504) or special education under rules for Emotional Impairments, Other Health Impairment, or autism spectrum disorders.
• Systematically gathers information (e.g. Functional Behavior Assessment) needed to determine the need for and, if needed, the specific features of a Behavior Intervention Plan (BIP) or variation (e.g. Antecedent Intervention Plan, Anti-harassment interventions)
• Meets with colleagues to develop classroom-based approaches to help with one or more students experiencing academic, emotional, behavioral, social, and/or physical difficulties.
• Teams with colleagues for extended interventions to help with initial implementation, monitoring, modification, and ultimately, evaluation of plans designed to address student needs.
• Contributes to problem-solving procedures required to determine the need for, nature of, and specific accommodations for students to have access to a free and appropriate public education (i.e. 504 plans)
• Consults, counsels, and collaborates with students, parents, school personnel, and appropriate outside personnel regarding mental health, behavioral, and educational concerns utilizing psychological principles.
• Provides psychological evaluation for students referred as candidates for special education programs and provides reports to the appropriate educational authority.
• Performs systematic direct observations of pupils.

• Masters or Ed.S. degree in School Psychology required

• Full approval for a Michigan School Psychologist Certification

• Must have a knowledge of federal and state special education laws and other legal aspects of the role of the school psychologist.
• A passionate commitment to improving learning for all students.
• Demonstrated positive interpersonal relationships.
• Must have a knowledge of the organization and administration of local, county and state agencies and their services for pupils.
• Skills in the ability to consult, counsel, and collaborate with pupils, parents, school personnel, and appropriate outside personnel regarding mental health, behavior, and educational concerns utilizing psychology principles.
• An understanding of the rationale of testing, measurement, and skills in the administration of tests, including those which measure intelligence, achievement, adaptive…