School Psychologist (1.0 FTE)

School Psychologist (1.0 FTE)

Student Services

Salary: Per the FHEA Master Agreement Salary Schedule

Required Qualifications:

• Valid Michigan School Psychologist certificate

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous school experience working with children with a variety of needs or disabilities, including emotional and/or behavioral challenges.

Essential Job Functions:

• Provide social-emotional learning supports, interagency collaboration and calibration, supporting the students’ academic and emotional needs, interdisciplinary approaches to sensory needs and other related service supports, and the ability to utilize CPI when imminent danger is present.
• Ability to understand and fulfill special education requirements by law; such as IEP creation/implementation, case management duties, individual/group therapy, etc.
• Conduct parent interviews to acquire socio-developmental information as needed for special education referrals and general education needs.
• Analyze information gained through data collection and analysis, record reviews and interviews to determine environmental impacts and appropriate resource needs; integrate gained information into a written report and/or oral presentation.
• Collaborate with the IEP team to create a comprehensive plan to support the needs of the student while working toward their IEP goals and objectives. This includes assisting with all areas of the student’s disability related needs including evaluations.
• Attend and participate in all related special education meetings. 
• Maintain a clear understanding of the FBA and PBSP process. The ability to create, implement, and collect data on Functional Behavioral Assessment and Positive Behavioral Support Plans (FBA/PBSP), is preferred, but will have opportunities for professional learning around these topics.
• Participate in professional development activities aimed at current trends and best practices for the provision of comprehensive social-emotional support.
• Preferred knowledge of Response to Intervention process.
• Demonstrated experience and knowledge with a variety of diagnostic instruments.
• Demonstrated experience and knowledge with Pattern of Strengths and Weaknesses process. 
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills.
• Commitment to lifelong learning as demonstrated by attendance at seminars, in-services, and training as appropriate.
• Consistent and reliable attendance
• Perform other duties as assigned

Physical Requirements:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, talk, hear (in a moderate or noisy environment). The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision and ability to adjust/focus. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.

Work Environment:

The noise level in the work environment is usually loud to moderate. Work may be performed indoors and/or outdoors. The employee is directly responsible for the safety, well-being and work output of students.

Mental Functions:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to compare, analyze, communicate both orally and in writing, copy, coordinate, instruct, compute, synthesize, evaluate, use interpersonal skills, compile and negotiate.

Evaluation:
In accordance with the FHEA Master Agreement. 

Terms of Employment:

The employee shall remain free of any alcohol or non-prescribed controlled substance abuse in the workplace throughout his/her employment in the District.

The Forest Hills Public School District does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, or sexual orientation), marital status, disability, genetic information, or any other legally prohibited basis in its employment decisions or the provision of services.