Special Education School Psychologist

Reports To: Executive Director for Special Education and Section 504

Application Deadline: Until FilledLength of Work Year: 197 Wage/Hour Status: Exempt

Salary Range: $71,771 - $99,114 Minimum - Maximum

Pay Grade: AP-05 Primary Purpose: Provide services to students, parents and school personnel in consultation, assessment, interventions, prevention and educational strategies for those students referred to special education.

Education/Certification: Master's degree in psychology from accredited college or university Valid Texas license as a licensed specialist in school psychology (LSSP) or Trainee Status Letter issued by the Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists Special Knowledge/Skills:

• Knowledge of procedures for assessing achievement and intelligence, emotional and behavioral functioning for educational purposes
• Knowledge of prevention and intervention strategies, including behavior management interventions
• Knowledge of psycho-social development
• Excellent organizational, communication and interpersonal skills

Major Responsibilities and Duties: Consultation:

• Provides sound and effective alternatives to teachers, parents and administrators about students' problems in learning and behavior.
• Assists others to understand child development and physical factors and how they affect learning and behavior.
• Strengthens working relationships among educators, parents and community services.
• Facilitates the ARD process by representing assessment, consulting with faculty and administrators and other members as necessary.
• Assessment:
• Uses a wide variety of techniques with students for evaluation.
• Performs the duties expected of an educational diagnostician in the event such assignments are necessary.
• Compiles test data and write psychological reports, counseling evaluations, FBA's, and applicable eligibility reports.
• Provides useful interpretation of assessment that will inform the parents, the teachers, and administrators.
• Participates in team assessment, such as FBA's, autism, etc.
• Intervention:
• Works face-to-face with students, parents and school staff concerning resolution of school issues, crises and problems with the students' total education performance.
• Assists in solving conflicts and problems in the student's learning and adjustment in the school environment.
• Provides opportunities for psychological counseling with students.
• Facilitates design of social skills training, behavior intervention plans and other strategies.
• Assists parents in arriving at effective solutions to their children's learning situations.
• Assists in ensuring that the curriculum is the most appropriate for the referred student.
• Assists teachers, administrators, and parents in designing an educational program for the student that addresses the student's emotional/behavioral and academic needs.
• Participates in the area of assistive technology as a means of providing for the student's success in his/her educational environment.
• Prevention:
• Identifies potential learning difficulties.
• Designs programs for children at risk of failure.
• Provides parents and teachers with the opportunity to acquire skills in order to cope and manage student's disruptive behaviors.

Supervisory Responsibilities: None

Working Conditions: Mental Demands/Physical Demands/Environmental Factors: Maintain emotional control under stress. Regular district wide travel to multiple work locations as assigned; maintain emotional control under stress; meet deadlines; frequent prolonged and irregular hours, regular light lifting (under 15 pounds), occasional heavy lifting and positioning of students with physical disabilities.