Job Description

This position is for the 2027-28 school year.

Position Objective

To provide data and participate as a member of District teams to help students resolve such personal, emotional, and social problems as interfere with their adjustments to school and their capacity to enjoy the fullest benefits of the education offered to them.

Essential Functions

• Acts as a case manager for initial case study evaluation
• Completes psychological evaluations for initial case studies and re-evaluations
• Determines appropriate evaluation methods to address referral concerns
• Completes required paperwork
• Serves on assigned schools' RTI problem solving team
• Consults with parents, staff members and/or team members
• Completes psychological and consultation reports within the legal time lines
• Communicates needed information with the team members
• Participates in team meetings and staffings
• Schedules time and notifies all participants of multidisciplinary conferences and necessary parent teacher conferences
• Maintains ethical communication and standards
• Maintains ethical and professional assessment standards
• Keep appraised of current rules and regulations in the areas of special education and social work. Understands public laws which affect education process

Additional Functions:

• Provides assistance/training in behavior management techniques
• Assists with methods of curriculum instruction, adaptions/modifications
• Assists with crisis interventions as needed
• Provides in-service as needs arise in assigned area
• Attends or participates in professional growth opportunities
• Participates in district committees as necessary and appropriate
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Master's degree or higher in psychology or educational psychology required
• Illinois Professional Educator License with School Psychologist endorsement required
• 1+ year experience preferred

Competencies:

• Excellent interpersonal communication skills. Able to communicate effectively with students, staff, and parents
• Adaptable to different work scenarios and schedules. Able to prioritize efforts in order to achieve a student-focused solution
• Able to work in various team-oriented work groups to come to a student-focused solution
• All school psychologists are required to understand and follow the National Association of School Psychologists Principle for Professional Ethics

Working conditions

• Mental Demands: calculating, comparing, evaluation, interpreting, organizing, consulting, analyzing, planning, documenting, specifying, coordinating, implementing, and presenting
• Physical Demands: bending, stooping, kneeling, twisting, reaching, sitting for prolonged periods of time, standing, walking, lifting, finger dexterity, grasping, repetitive motions, talking, hearing and visual acuity, ability to read and write, ability to speak and understand the English language. Must be able to lift an individual student
• Environmental Conditions: The work is performed primarily indoors; however, outside work is required on occasion. Travel between buildings is a requirement