Job Description:

Position Title: School Psychologist 2025-2026 School Year

Length of Work Yr: 10 months

Salary Range: $69,469 + 

Placement based on education and experience

Department: Student Services

Reports To: Director for Student Services and School Principal

 JOB GOAL:

To enable students to derive the fullest possible benefit from their educational experience by: participating in school level efforts to identify special needs students, providing diagnostic services to students identified by school staff or community agencies and by providing either direct or indirect treatment when appropriate to help students overcome conditions and behaviors that impede their academic and/or interpersonal growth.

QUALIFICATIONS:

1. Arizona certificate as a school psychologist and recorded with Maricopa County School Superintendent.
2. Master's Degree required
3. A comprehensive knowledge of special education students’ needs and special education programs.
4. Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable.

PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Identify and place eligible special education students.  Provide psychological and other testing to assist in placements and program design.
2. Generate and maintain S.E. documents supporting placement, program design and psychoeducational evaluations.  Maintain psychological files in compliance with IDEA and 504 and state regulations.
3. Consultation and counseling for identified SE students.  
4. Assist with program modifications and behavioral plans for regular education students.  Observation, direct staff and student contact, assist with writing of modified programs, behavioral contracts, and reinforcement schedules.
5. Assist CST with the assessment and screening of referred students.  Perform academic, perceptual and behavioral assessments and/or observe, call prior schools, review records.
6. Facilitate referrals to community medical and mental health personnel. Telephone interviews, letter generation, attend outside staffings and parent consultations.
7. Consult with parents for crisis situations regarding their children.  Telephone contacts, staffings, counseling sessions.
8. Facilitate effective special education program design and implementation, (e.g. special needs preschool, District Crisis Plan, Non-violent Crisis Intervention and SST/MDC).