School Psychologist Position Description

POSITION OVERVIEW

Central Kitsap School District is seeking equity-focused educators who create hope and resiliency for our students and lead the way in eliminating opportunity gaps.  As an educator in CK, you will have the responsibility to make a profound and lasting, positive impact on the lives of our students.

Under general supervision, provides diagnostic and consultative psychological services in accordance with district policy and standards set by professional psychological organizations.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Fosters an educational environment conducive to the learning and maturation process of assigned students.

Consults and collaborates with parents, school staff, and outside agency personnel regarding the psycho-educational needs of students, their implications, and means of intervening.

Conducts multi-factored psychological and psycho-educational assessments of children and youth, as appropriate, such assessments may use a variety of standardized and non-standardized instruments/procedures to collect data; areas assessed may include social-emotional adjustment, cognitive and aptitude, academic achievement, language and communication skills, learning styles, sensory and perceptual-motor functioning, adaptive behavior, environmental and cultural influences.

Participates in facilitating the design and development of building level procedures to prevent educational failure and meet the mental health and learning needs of students.

Integrates information into an accurate and useful overview to be used for determining intervention, programs and service needs; participates as an Individual Education Program (IEP) team member and compiles information, which may include a written report integrating assessment results and implications, and providing feedback to IEP members and parents for all students formally referred.

Consults and collaborates in developing and maintaining positive relationships among students, parents and teachers, and involving them in assessment, interventions, and program evaluation procedures.

Provides, as appropriate, direct and indirect psychological interventions to facilitate the functioning of individuals and groups, such as developing, implementing and monitoring behavioral management strategies, providing group and individual counseling, designing intervention programs to enhance cognitive, affective, social, and vocational development in the school environment.

Initiates, expedites, and manages referrals to other agencies and specialists, as appropriate.

Integrates and interprets the steps and processes involved in implementing district policies and other appropriate laws used in determining students program and service needs.

Develops and assists in the development of in-service and other skill enhancement activities for school personnel, parents and others within the school and district, where ap