AVAILABLE NOW: School Psychologist

Des Moines Public School District • Des Moines, IA

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About The Position

School psychologists emphasize a problem-solving approach to provide direct and indirect services to resolve identified student concerns. They function as part of the multi-disciplinary team to provide expertise of child development, the psychology of learning, progress monitoring, and program evaluation.

Requirements

• Education Specialist Degree in School Psychology from a NASP approved program or NCSP certification.
• Valid IA Board of Educational Examiners certification.
• Compentency working in a culturally diverse environment or willingness to acquire these skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with school-aged population

Responsibilities

• Operate within a multi-disciplinary team serving students with disabilities.
• Assess student characteristics including cognitive function, emotional adjustment, adaptive behavior, language development, learning potential, academic performance, and rate of progress using non-discriminatory tools to determine appropriate interventions, instructional recommendations, and services.
• Consult with school personnel and parents regarding planning, implementing, and evaluating individual and group interventions within MTSS.
• Provide leadership and professional development regarding appropriate utilization of standardized assessments and implications for instruction during the Child Find and Re-evaluation process.
• Provide leadership and professional development regarding best practices for interventions within a MTSS model.
• Conduct direct observations of students within the school setting.
• Engage in professional development to remain informed of new development, legislation, contemporary research, and reading professional literature in the field of school psychology.
• Conduct comprehensive psychological evaluations for the purpose of educational planning.
• Assist the multi-disciplinary team in conducting functional behavior assessments (FBA) and develop behavior intervention plans (BIP) in accordance with IDEA.
• Collaborate and provide guidance regarding suspected disability.
• Provide psychological consultation to parents, teachers, support staff, and administrators.
• Work collaboratively with mental health professionals in the community to provide services to students with disabilities and their families.
• Advocate for the human and civil rights of students utilizing non-discriminatory practices.
• Support the implementation of school wide prevention programs that help maintain positive school climates conducive to learning.
• Provide supervision and professional guidance for school psychologist interns, as needed.
• Implement professional practices that are empirically supported, data driven, and culturally appropriate.
• Help identify and resolve barriers to learning and provide effective services to help student success academically, socially, emotionally and behaviorally.
• Promote wellness and resilience by reinforcing the need for safe, supportive, fair, and effective learning environments.
• Attend work on a prompt and regular basis.
• Maintain confidentiality.
• Maintain satisfactory and harmonious working relationships with the public, students, and other employees.
• Assist with other duties as may be assigned.

Benefits

• All candidates offered a position will be required to successfully pass a criminal background check, and a child and adult abuse registry check.
• Certain positions may require fingerprinting, a drug and alcohol test, a physical capacity test and/or a motor vehicle record check.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time