School Psychologist - One-year-only Contract

About the role

The School Psychologist provides a variety of services, including special education evaluations, social skills and behavioral training and supports with students, counseling services, parent and teacher consultations, response to intervention implementation, and data analysis. This position will be in support of the students at the Family Interim Non-Congregate Housing (FINCH) facility in South Salt Lake City.

Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively with teachers, administrators, and parents.
• Conduct IDEA evaluations.
• Write written assessment reports including recommendations.
• Generate and implement IEP documents and student goals.
• Conduct functional behavioral assessments.
• Develop behavior intervention plans.
• Assist with response to intervention programs.
• Interpret and analyze student academic and behavioral data.
• Assist with the school's 504 Accommodation team.
• Provide direct intervention services to students (individually and/or group).
• Provide consultation services with school personnel.
• Provide consultation services with parents.
• Act as a liaison with community professionals.
• Actively participate in continued professional development activities.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Work takes place in a typical school environment.
• Supervision of students requires both indoor and outdoor responsibilities (e.g. recess duty, gymnasium activities, etc.) in all types of weather and air quality.
• Tasks may involve extended periods of time at a keyboard or workstation.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to speak and/or hear.
• The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, and crouch.
• The employee is occasionally required to use hands to handle or feel objects and must occasionally climb or balance.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision and depth perception.
• The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds.

Qualifications

• Requires a Utah State Board of Education (USBE) cleared criminal background check.
• Requires one of the following:
  • a valid Professional Educator License issued by the Utah State Board of Education with a Professional School Psychologist License Area of Concentration;
  • an equivalent license in another state;
  • verification of enrollment or completion of an accredited School Psychologist program prior to the date of hire that will result in one of the licenses listed above; or
  • current enrollment in a NASP-accredited university program and deemed ready for an internship.
• New program graduates who have not yet received their license must upload a conferral letter from their university program in lieu of their license. This letter must include the anticipated date of graduation