National Director of School Psychology

Thrive Therapies Group•Nashville, TN

1d•$98,000 - $120,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Thrive Therapies Group is a tech-enabled pediatric healthcare company delivering specialized clinical care to children with disabilities and those facing barriers to access. We deliver our care where it changes outcomes fastest — inside the schools and districts where children spend their days — partnering directly with district leaders to integrate evidence-based services into the school day. Every clinician under our banner is part of a unified clinical model, accountable to a single national standard of care, working from a shared platform built specifically for the children we serve. At the center of our model is Thrive Clinical, our purpose-built EHR designed from the ground up for pediatric clinical care in school settings. Thrive Clinical is not a generic documentation platform retrofitted for schools. It was built to track student progress, measure mastery gains, capture rich clinical data, and give providers and leaders real-time insight into whether kids are actually getting better. It is the operational backbone of everything we do, and it gets smarter as the clinicians and leaders using it push it forward. We are growing rapidly because the need is staggering and largely unmet. Across the country, children with IEPs are waiting months for evaluations, going without required services, and falling further behind because districts cannot find or sustain the clinical talent to support them. Existing options are not meeting the depth or breadth of what children, families, and schools actually need. We are building the alternative: a clinically excellent, technology-enabled care model designed to scale without compromising the quality of care any individual child receives. The National Director of School Psychology Clinical Excellence is the architect of that standard.

Requirements

Full, unrestricted school psychologist licensure or certification; provisional or pre-credentialed candidates will not be considered
Active licensure or certification in Tennessee or a relevant state of practice; multi-state credentialing costs supported upon hire
Minimum 10 years of clinical experience in school-based or IEP-driven settings with significant involvement in psychoeducational evaluation and eligibility determination
Minimum 5 years of progressive clinical leadership experience, with at least 3 years in a multi-site or multi-state clinical leadership role
Demonstrated experience building diagnostic standards, evaluation frameworks, or quality systems at scale — not just running them. You will be asked to share artifacts (handbooks, frameworks, protocols, playbooks) you have authored
Demonstrated experience formally supervising clinical leaders or specialists, not just direct clinicians
Working fluency in IDEA Part B, state SPED variation across at least two states, and Medicaid billing for school-based services
Demonstrated data fluency: comfort reading clinical and operational dashboards and using data to drive decisions
Ability and willingness to travel approximately 50% of the month across assigned national markets
Consistent, timely evaluation and documentation history with no pattern of timeline lapses
Successful background check prior to start

Nice To Haves

Experience scaling diagnostic operations across multiple districts, states, or organizational contexts
Prior experience as a clinical leader or clinical champion at a healthtech or edtech company with a proprietary clinical platform
Familiarity with school-based EHR and IEP platforms (Frontline, SEAS, Embrace, Welligent, GoalBook, or similar)
Experience working in or alongside venture-backed or high-growth healthcare or education services organizations
Experience in higher education training programs or university partnerships in school psychology
Fluency in a global language (Spanish, Somali, Arabic, or others)

Responsibilities

Define Thrive's national framework for psychoeducational assessment and eligibility determination, setting the standard for how school psychologists across every market select instruments, conduct evaluations, and document findings
Build and maintain the diagnostic frameworks, supervision protocols, and practice standards that Clinical Supervisors implement with their supervisee populations across all regions
Ensure that what excellent diagnostic practice looks like at Thrive is documented, measurable, and consistently applied regardless of geography, district, or state
Serve as the final clinical authority on diagnostic questions, eligibility interpretation, and assessment protocol disputes across the Thrive network
Ensure that Thrive's diagnostic standards account for the full range of student backgrounds, including English language learners, students with complex or co-occurring profiles, and students from diverse cultural and linguistic communities
Serve as the direct clinical authority above Clinical Supervisors, who deliver high-touch supervision to pre-licensed school psychologists and performance-flagged providers across assigned national markets
Build the supervision model that scales from one Clinical Supervisor today to a national team across dozens of markets in two years — including hiring criteria, supervisor onboarding, the supervisor playbook, and the cadence that holds them accountable
Set the coaching agenda nationally: your Clinical Supervisors implement your standards, and you ensure they have the frameworks, tools, and direction to do that consistently whether they are in Tennessee, Washington, Florida, or any market we expand into
Coach the coaches: build your Clinical Supervisor layer as your most important product, owning their development, succession planning, and bench
Make readiness and advancement decisions in collaboration with Clinical Supervisors and regional leads using Thrive Clinical data and the structured performance criteria you define
Own Thrive Clinical as the operational expression of the national diagnostic model: set the standards for how it is used, what it measures, and how its data informs clinical decisions at every level of the organization
Establish the platform benchmarks Clinical Supervisors and school psychologists are held to, and use system-wide data to identify where the standard is holding and where it is not across all markets
Partner directly with product and engineering as the named clinical owner for defined areas of the roadmap, bringing the frontline diagnostic insight that shapes how the platform evolves
Champion Thrive Clinical not as a documentation tool but as a strategic asset for innovation, using its data to surface patterns, raise the bar, and identify what is possible in school-based diagnostic practice
Monitor evaluation quality, IEP timeline compliance, eligibility documentation fidelity, and diagnostic quality across all school psychology markets nationally
Build the early-warning systems that surface quality risk before it becomes a quality failure, and escalate proactively
Identify systemic gaps in diagnostic practice across the network and build the protocols, training resources, and support structures that close them before they become compliance failures
Own the multi-state regulatory landscape for school psychology operations, partnering with operations and compliance on Medicaid billing, IDEA Part B requirements, and state SPED variation
Design and drive the PD infrastructure for school psychologists nationally, ensuring content is grounded in Thrive's diagnostic framework and evidence-based practice, not generic continuing education
Build PD that cascades from national diagnostic standards down through Clinical Supervisors to individual school psychologists, so every clinician at every site is growing in the same direction
Lead summer intensives, site visits, and targeted in-person engagement with partners, supervisors, and providers across all Thrive markets
Represent Thrive's school psychology model and diagnostic standards in key district and school partner relationships across the country, communicating the depth and rigor of our approach to evaluation and eligibility
Support onboarding of new national partnerships by establishing diagnostic expectations early and building the infrastructure to sustain them as Thrive continues to expand
Serve as a thought leader in school-based psychological practice, bringing emerging research and a relentless focus on getting the diagnostic process right for every child