PSYCHOMETRIST - 10 MONTHS
Job description
The duties include but are not limited to:
- Serves as a consultant to parents, teachers, other school personnel, and community agencies for planning and implementing methods/interventions to maximize learning and adjustment of students.
- Communicates effectively with students, parents, and school staff.
- Attends IEP Team meetings for referral, eligibility, and IEP, as necessary.
- Administers and interprets individual psychoeducational evaluations for all age levels.
- Completes comprehensive written reports.
- Assists in the planning, development, and evaluation/monitoring of programs to meet identified learning and adjustment needs through data based decision making.
- Applies ethics/standards of professional practice and observes relevant laws and policies that govern practices.
- Participates in professional organizations and continually seeks to improve professional knowledge and skills.
- Provides in service training to parents and staff on relevant topics.
- Utilizes PowerSchool SIS (Student Information Systems) and PowerSchool Special Programs.
- Travels to various schools or other sites as assigned.
- Attends scheduled staff meetings and committee meetings as required.
- Supervises interns as assigned.
- Assures procedural safeguards and maintains confidentiality of records and data in all sources.
- Recognizes issues of diversity that affect routine interactions and effectively meet these diverse needs.
- Performs others duties as assigned by the Executive Director of Special Education and the Supervisor of Psychological Services.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Must have a Master's Degree in Educational Psychology, School Psychology, Psychometry, Special Education, or other related field, from a regionally accredited college or university.
Must have Certification as Psychometrist or School Psychologist by Alabama State Department of Education.
Three (3) years of teaching experience or Nationally Certified School Psychologist (NCSP) is preferred.
Must have typing skills and familiarity with word processing and database software.
Such alternatives and additions to the above qualifications as the Executive Director of Special Education may find appropriate and acceptable.
THE MOBILE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER.
The State does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, sex, sexual orientation, religious preference, marital status, disability, national origin, or any other reason prohibited by state or federal law. Employees of the District are required to comply with the provisions of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and Title IX of the 1972 Educational Amendments.
Alabama school boards are required by state law to verify the employment eligibility of newly hired employees by using the federal E-Verify program. New employees are required to provide a Social Security number, an unexpired identity document that contains a photograph, and other acceptable documents that establish employment eligibility. In addition to determining whether a new hire is authorized to work in the United States, E-Verify will confirm that the employee's name and Social Security number match.
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