School Psychologist
School Psychologist
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07-04-2025
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07-04-2025
Job Description
A School Psychologist with The Menta Group will provide regional leadership to effectively help students succeed. This includes working with parents educators and other professionals to create supportive academic learning and social environments for all students.
Successful candidates for this position will have strong skills in databased decisionmaking multidisciplinary collaboration functional behavior assessment/SEL Goal writing and behavioral approaches to change intervention planning risk assessment progress monitoring program evaluation and consultation with educational staff parents and other professionals. Knowledge of childhood mental illnesses and empiricallybased interventions is essential.
Local travel to our school network with occasional regional travel is required.
Responsibilities
- Experience working with children and adolescents with significant behavioral and emotional difficulties in a school setting
- Extensive experience with the social emotional components of the IEP process (FA/BIP SEL goal writing)
- Strong leadership and interpersonal skills
- Excellent consultative and data analysis abilities
- Creative thinker who can develop a wide range of empiricallysupported interventions to meet the needs of diverse children and adolescents
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Ability to collaborate effectively with teachers paraprofessionals and other service providers
- Local travel to our school network with occasional regional travel is required.
Qualifications
- Professional Educators License with School Psychologist Endorsement/Certification in Illinois
- Bilingual proficiency in English and Spanish is preferred but not required
- Strong leadership and interpersonal skills
- Strong consultative and data analysis abilities
- Creative thinker who can develop a wide range of interventions meeting the needs of a diverse student population
- Excellent communication skills
Benefits
- Benefit options include: Medical Dental Vision and Supplemental Insurance Programs
- Medical Insurance enrollment is available to full time employees on their date of hire. No waiting period.
- Competitive Salary
- 12 Month School Position
- Generous Paid Time Off Benefits
- 403(b) Investment Options
About The Menta Group
The Menta Groups mission is To provide innovative solutions to critical problems in education and human services. Menta brings a framework of educational practices that have been designed and are supported through evidence based practices. Mentas collaborative process with various school and community stakeholders has resulted in programs designed to educate support challenge empower and celebrate students who present with a range of academic social and emotional needs. At the beginning of a students experience with Menta a collaborative meeting is held that includes the student significant people in their lives Menta staff and other professionals as appropriate. During that meeting a comprehensive assessment of the students past present and future desires is used to establish a student centered plan (MAP) that serves as a foundation of the students Menta programming. A guiding principle of Menta is we do not give up while also holding our students and staff to high expectations. The educational offerings at a Menta program provides students with a quality education that is designed to nurture and enhance the skills and maturity needed to meet the challenges of being productive adults and citizens in a rapidly changing 21st century world.
Professional Associations and/or Partnerships
The Menta Group affiliates are members/partners with CEC CASE Autism Speaks ASBA AAPSEC AASA CCSSO SEAA ASCD and many more associations that focus on the education of children with disabilities.
Equal Opportunity Employer
The Menta Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The Menta Group ensures equal employment opportunities regardless of race creed sex color national origin religion age sexual orientation or disability. The District has a policy of active recruitment of qualified minority teachers and noncertified employees. Any individual needing assistance in making application for any opening should contact the district office.
About Menta Academy Midway
Menta Academy Midway promotes independence in students by creating a learning environment that fosters individualization and planning. The program provides support for English and nonEnglish speaking children with disabilities by focusing on the whole child in their native language. Collaborative and databased problemsolving approaches are utilized to develop appropriate interventions and progress monitoring.
The classrooms integrate evidencebased strategies from the Structured Teaching Model developed by Division TEACCH University of North CarolinaChapel Hill. Physical structure visual schedules work systems communication systems and sensory supports are thoughtfully integrated to optimize student success.
Midway serves students in grades K12 and those transitioning from school to life ages 1821. Disabilities served include autism emotional disabilities specific learning disabilities intellectual disabilities other health impairments traumatic brain injury and multiple disabilities.
Professional Associations and/or Partnerships
The Menta Education Group affiliates are members/partners with CEC CASE Autism Speaks ASBA AAPSEC AASA CCSSO SEAA ASCD and many more associations that focus on the education of children with disabilities.
Equal Opportunity Employer
The Menta Education Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The Menta Group ensures equal employment opportunities regardless of race creed sex color national origin religion age sexual orientation or disability. The District has a policy of active recruitment of qualified minority teachers and noncertified employees. Any individual needing assistance in making application for any opening should contact the district office.
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