School Psychologist

QUALIFICATIONS:    

1.  Kentucky School Psychology Certification

2.  Such additions to the above qualification as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable.

REPORTS TO:  Special Education Director

SUPERVISES:  N/A

JOB GOALS:    To enable students to derive the fullest possible educational experience from school by promoting their sense of self and by treating any psychological or mental health problems.

PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES:

Standard 1:  An education leader promotes the success of every student by facilitating the development, articulation, implementation, and stewardship of a vision of learning that is shared and supported by all stakeholders.

Functions

A.  Collaboratively develop and implement a shared vision and mission

B.  Collect and use data to identify goals, assess organizational effectiveness, and promote organizational learning

C.  Create and implement plans to achieve goals

D.  Promote continuous and sustainable improvement

E.  Monitor and evaluate progress and revise plans

Standard 2:  An education leader promotes the success of every student by advocating, nurturing, and sustaining a school culture and instructional program conducive to student learning and staff professional growth.

Functions

A.  Nurture and sustain a culture of collaboration, trust, learning, and high expectations

B.  Create a comprehensive, rigorous, and coherent curricular program

C.  Create a personalized and motivating learning environment for students

D.  Supervise instruction

E.  Develop assessment and accountability systems to monitor student progress

F.  Develop the instructional and leadership capacity of staff

G.  Maximize time spent on quality instruction

H.  Promote the use of the most effective and appropriate technologies to support teaching and learning

I.    Monitor and evaluate the impact of the instructional program

Standard 3:  An education leader promotes the success of every student by ensuring management of the organization, operation, and resources for a safe, efficient, and effective learning environment.

Functions

A.  Monitor and evaluate the management and operational systems

B.  Obtain, allocate, align, and efficiently utilize human, fiscal, and technological resources

C.  Promote and protect the welfare and safety of students and staff

D.  Develop the capacity for distributed leadership

E.  Ensure teacher and organizational time is focused to support quality instruction and student learning

Standard 4:  An education leader promotes the success of every student by collaborating with faculty and community members, responding to diverse community interests and needs, and mobilizing community resources.

Functions

A.  Collect and analyze data and information pertinent to the educational environment

B.  Promote understanding, appreciation, and use of the community’s diverse cultural, social, and intellectual resources

C.  Build and sustain positive relationships with families and caregivers

D.  Build and sustain productive relationships with community partners

Standard 5:  An education leader promotes the success of every student by acting with integrity fairness, and in an ethical manner.

Functions

A.  Ensure a system of accountability for every student’s academic and social success

B.  Model principles of self-awareness, reflective practice, transparency, and ethical behavior

C.  Safeguard the values of democracy, equity, and diversity

D.  Consider and evaluate the potential moral and legal consequences of decision-making

E.  Promote social justice and ensure that individual student needs inform all aspects of schooling

F.  Performs professional responsibilities related to job assignment, including attendance and punctuality.

G.  Adheres to professional code of ethics.

H.  Performs duties consistent with the goals for Kentucky students and mission of the school, the local community, laws, and administrative regulations.

Standard 6:  An education leader promotes the success of every student by understanding, responding to, and influencing the political, social, economic, legal, and cultural context.

Functions

A.  Advocate for children, families, and caregivers

B.  Act to influence local, district, state, and national decisions affecting student learning

C.  Assess, analyze, and anticipate emerging trends and initiatives in order to adapt leadership strategies

RESPONSIBILITIES SPECIFIC TO ADMINISTRATIVE AREA:

1. Assesses difficulties of referred students through appropriate testing and diagnostic practices

2. Helps identify within the school all types of exceptional children and recommends corrective         procedures.

3. Consults on special educational needs of students with social, emotional, and cognitive disabilities. 

4. Attends ARC meetings on placement of individual students and conveys essential information in an open manner.

5. Serves as a consultant on mental health topics for instructors.

6. Interprets the school psychological services to teachers and parents.

7. Attends staff, professional, and interagency meetings and keeps abreast of new developments in the field.

8. Assists with professional development training of school personnel.

9. Participates/consults with personnel in the pre-referral process and RTI systems.

10. Provides comprehensive psychoeducational evaluation for referrals for exceptional children   services for students in the 3 through 21 year old age range.

11. Participates in SBARC meetings to interpret evaluation data and generates appropriate

recommendations.

12. Supervises School Psychology interns as needed.

13. Solicits information about students from school sources and available community resources;   interviews students and teachers effectively and engages in counseling procedures where desired or necessary.       

14. Consults with teachers, administrators, and parents using effective communication skills in

developing, implementing, and evaluating interventions designed to promote academic/social skills.

15. Selects, administers, scores, interprets, and describes findings from an appropriate battery of tests which may include individual tests of cognitive ability, educational achievement, perceptual-motor, language, social, and emotional development.

16. Reports findings in verbal and written form and generates recommendations in a timely, clear,  and effective manner.

17. Maintains accurate and thorough records.

18. Acts and reacts in a positive, constructive, and mutually respectful manner when dealing with others.

19. Performs such other tasks as may be assigned by the Superintendent or Special Education Director.

TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT:  Salary and work year to be established by the Superintendent and the Board.

EVALUATION:  Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with provisions of the Board's policy on Evaluation of Professional Personnel.