QUALIFICATIONS:
- The willingness to work as a team member with a variety of individuals and take directions from supervisors.
- Ability to communicate effectively and function cooperatively with students teachers parents and administrators individually and in a group.
- Initiative that will lead to continued program improvement and development.
- Must have or be able to obtain and maintain a valid Kansas drivers license.
- Must have and maintain a dependable means of transportation.
CERTIFICATE/LICENSE REQUIREMENTS:
Hold or be eligible for Certification as a School Psychologist in Kansas levels EC12.
PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Be a contributing member of the General Ed Intervention team.
- Assess difficulties of referred students through appropriate diagnostic evaluations.
- Attend and provide the staffing team with recommendations for programming/placement for all students evaluated.
- Develop detailed written report of each evaluation summarizing the results of the evaluation and listing appropriate recommendations.
- Conduct individual and/or group therapy for children with disabilities whose IEP designates such a service.
- Consults with teachers administrators and parents on special educational needs of students with disability.
- Interpret the school psychological evaluation results to teachers administrators and parents.
- Attends staff professional and interagency meetings as needed.
- Maintain proper license/certificate.
- Maintain a log of activities as directed to meet local state and/or federal guidelines.
- Responds to crisis situations to provide mental health support to students and staff.
- Responds to other duties as assigned by NKESC Administrators.
PHYSICAL ABILITIES:
- Exhibit manual dexterity to dial a telephone to enter data into a computer to see and read a computer screen and printed materials with or without vision aids; hear and understand speech at normal classroom levels outdoors and on the telephone; speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly in normal classrooms outdoors and on the telephone; and physical agility to reach overhead.
- Ability to move between schools school buildings and multiple rooms.
- Ability to interact with students that meets their physical emotional and psychological needs.
TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT:
Per negotiated agreement.
EVALUATION: Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with provisions of the USD #602 Board of Educations policy on Evaluation of Professional Personnel.