Clinical Psychologist

Woburn Public Schools•Woburn, MA

16h•Onsite

About The Position

The WPS Clinical Psychologist will report to the Director of Student Services and Building Principal(s), and assist in the goal of helping to oversee GAIN (Therapeutic Program) at Woburn Memorial High School. The role involves overseeing therapeutic programming, developing behavioral programming, and implementing social/emotional curriculum within GAIN classrooms. Responsibilities also include parent consultation, collaboration with outside providers, creating program manuals, and providing clinical supervision to GAIN classroom clinical staff. The psychologist will foster a welcoming, inclusive, and culturally responsive environment, support students with social-emotional learning disabilities, crisis situations, and behavioral outbursts, and help students maintain safe behaviors. This includes overseeing paraprofessional staff, assisting with student transitions and evaluations in other buildings, and participating in ongoing professional development, including Safety-Care training. The role also entails administering and interpreting cognitive and other relevant evaluations, providing written reports, collaborating with building staff, and participating in IEP and other school-based teams. Developing and monitoring IEP goals, providing supervision for social skills development and individual counseling, and consulting on behavioral interventions are key aspects. The position requires staying current with intervention strategies and assessments, conducting home visits, and performing other administrative duties as assigned.

Requirements

Doctoral Degree from an approved program in clinical psychology.
Experience in a culturally diverse, public school setting
Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of child development

Responsibilities

Oversee the therapeutic programming within the GAIN classrooms
Assist in developing the behavioral programming for the GAIN classrooms
Assist in implementation of social/emotional curriculum within the GAIN classroom
Parent consultation, collaboration with outside providers and home services, as needed
Create and maintain program manuals for the GAIN classrooms
Provide clinical supervision to GAIN classroom clinical staff
Create a welcoming, inclusive, culturally responsive environment that is conducive to student’s learning and their ability to comfortably share their authentic selves.
Support students with social emotional learning disabilities and students that are in crisis and or exhibiting behavioral outbursts
Support students in maintaining safe behaviors across settings, including the use of blocking and reinforcement procedures as well as physical restraint, as needed.
Oversee paraprofessional staff in supporting students and in data collection and entry.
Assist staff in other buildings with student transitions; observe students as needed
Assist staff in other buildings to determine appropriateness of evaluation in the GAIN classroom.
Participate in ongoing professional development activities to include Safety-Care training,and all other relevant trainings
Provide professional development opportunities to GAIN Program staff.
Administer and interpret formal and informal cognitive and other relevant evaluations required to determine eligibility for special services, as well as for ongoing reevaluations.
Provide written reports of assessment for student evaluations.
Collaborate with building staff
Participate as a member of the IEP team as well as other relevant school-based teams including crisis support, IST (Instructional Support Team-RTI/MTSS, etc.)
Assist in developing IEP goals and objectives as well as monitor and report on progress.
Provide supervision to group and individual lessons on social skills development as well as individual counseling sessions based on student needs and IEP goals/objectives.
Involvement and consultation around behavioral interventions and plans, in conjunction with district BCBA/ behavioral staff, social workers, as appropriate.
Participate in ongoing PD including maintaining knowledge of new intervention strategies and new assessments in the areas of instructional strategies, behavior management, behavioral intervention plans and emotional disabilities.
Conduct home visits as needed.
Other duties as assigned by the Administration.