School Psychologist

Job Description

General Job Description:    To utilize a unique blend of training incorporating skills and knowledge of psychology and education to provide services that address the educational, behavioral, and social-emotional needs of students through consultation, intervention, assessment, counseling, and training.

Reports to:   Executive Director of Special Services

Qualifications:

• Master’s degree + 30 hours or Doctoral degree in school psychology from an accredited university.
• Certified, or eligible to be certified, by the South Carolina Department of Education as a Level II or Level III School Psychologist.
• Previous school psychologist experience preferred.

Essential Job Functions:

• Establish and maintain cooperative and effective working relationships with students, parents, teachers, and administrators.
• Demonstrate outstanding written and oral language communication skills.
• Participate in multidisciplinary teams (Student Support/MTSS, IEP, 504) in order to identify and support students’ unique learning needs.
• Assist in the identification and placement of students with educational disabilities, including the facilitation of comprehensive evaluations across various disciplines.
• Conduct psychoeducational evaluations of individual student’s needs using formal and informal techniques including: norm-referenced measures of cognitive ability/processing, academic achievement, behavioral/social/emotional functioning, adaptive skills, executive functioning skills; direct observations; interviews with parents, teachers, and other professionals; heath and developmental histories; criterion-referenced and curriculum-based assessments.
• Interpret assessment data, help design and, when appropriate, provide direct intervention based on students’ needs.
• Provide crisis intervention.
• Provide consultation to parents, teachers and school administrators.
• Collaborate with community-based evaluators and service providers.
• Supervise school psychology graduate students (if assigned).
• Maintain case records on all referred students, and turn files in to the District Office in a timely manner once an evaluation or reevaluation is complete.
• Assist with in-service training of school personnel.
• Attend appropriate in-service training programs, staff meetings, and individual student conferences as requested by supervisor and in compliance with established district guidelines.
• Keep all student and school related information confidential in accordance with federal and state guidelines and Board policy.
• Adhere to established federal, state and local laws/regulations and ethical guidelines.
• Perform other duties as assigned by administration.

Terms of Employment:  200 day contract (school year)

Salary:   Fort Mill Schools - Psychologist Salary Schedule

Evaluation:  Performance is conducted annually in accordance with Board policy on evaluation of professional personnel.