2025-2026 School Psychologist Job Pool
2025-2026 School Psychologist Job Pool
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Job Description
Position Title: School Psychologist
Term of Employment: FullTime; 12 months
Reports To: Director of Exceptional Children
Pay Information: State Salary Scale and Local Supplement
General Statement of Job
- To enable students to derive the fullest possible educational experience from school by promoting their sense of self and by treating any psychological or mental health problems
Essential Job Functions
- Engage in consultation counseling and crisis response.
- Assist with addressing mental health needs.
- Hold conferences with parents.
- Conduct psychoeducational evaluations when students are suspected of having disabilities.
- Offer various training to staff.
- Participate on multidisciplinary districtlevel teams.
- Work with teachers school staff and families as part of a collaborative team within the school setting.
- Other duties assigned by supervisor
Knowledge Skills and Abilities
- Knowledge of computers various operating systems as well as word processing software spreadsheets and databases.
- Knowledge of school procedures and conducting educational assessments for the purpose of disability identification.
- Knowledge of interventions and best practices in mental health.
- Knowledge of the MTSS process.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Ability to conduct professional development.
- Ability to work effectively in a deadlinedriven rapidly changing team environment.
- Ability to establish and maintain an effective working relationship with district staff.
Minimum Training and Experience
- School psychology degree (M.A. Ed.S. or Ph.D. from an approved NASP APA or NCATE program
- Must hold a valid North Carolina license in school psychology.
Minimum Qualifications or Standards Required to Perform Essential Job Functions
- Physical Requirements: The work regularly requires standing and walking around the classroom and school. It requires the ability to communicate effectively using speech vision and hearing. The work requires the use of hands for simple grasping and fine manipulations. The work often requires bending squatting reaching with the ability to lift carry push or pull light weights and rarely the lifting of weights above 30 pounds. The work occasionally handles/works with biohazards and/or risks for potential jobrelated injury such as those found in a laboratory or shop environment. The work requires activities occasionally involving driving automotive equipment.
- Data Conception: Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable functional structural or composite characteristics (whether similar or divergent from obvious standards) of data people or things.
- Interpersonal Communication: Requires the ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information. Includes receiving instructions assignments or directions to subordinates or assistants.
- Language Ability: Requires the ability to read a variety of correspondence reports forms articles proposals contracts etc. Requires the ability to prepare correspondence reports forms evaluations contracts policies handbooks budgets etc. using prescribed formats and conforming to all rules of punctuation grammar diction and style. Requires the ability to speak before groups of people with poise voice control and confidence.
- Intelligence: Requires the ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define problems collect data establish facts and draw valid conclusions; to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagrammatic form; and to deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
- Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to record and deliver information to explain procedures to give oral and written instructions. Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently in a variety of technical or professional languages including educational and legal terminology.
- Numerical Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize mathematical formulas; to add and subtract; multiply and divide; utilize decimals and percentages; and to apply the principles of descriptive statistics statistical inference and statistical theory.
- Form/Spatial Aptitude: Requires the ability to inspect items for proper length width and shape.
- Motor Coordination: Requires the ability to coordinate hands and eyes rapidly and accurately in using office equipment.
- Manual Dexterity: Requires the ability to handle a variety of items such as office equipment and hand tools. Must have minimal levels of eye/hand/foot coordination.
- Interpersonal Temperament: Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions. Must be adaptable to performing under stress and when confronted with emergency situations.
- Physical Communication: Requires the ability to talk and hear: (Talking: expressing or exchanging ideas by means of spoken words. Hearing: perceiving nature of sounds by ear. Must be able to communicate via telephone.
Disclaimer
The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties responsibilities and qualifications required of employees to this job.
Employment Type
Full-Time
