• Position Type:
    Related Services/Psychologist
  
  
• Date Posted:
    11/1/2024
  
  
• Location:
    District Wide
  
  
• Date Available:
    08/06/2025
  
  
• Closing Date:
    04/30/2025
  
  

  NOTE: This posting has been opened for application intake for anyone interested in a position with School District U-46 for the 2025/2026 school year. We anticipate the review of applications to begin sometime near the end of January. If you are interested in a role for the current 2024/2025 school year, we encourage you to check out our open vacancies. 
           

Function / Position Summary
Provide support for instruction and technical assistance with progress monitoring and data analysis consultation; involvement in intervention; and evaluation processes.

Job Duties / Responsibilities

• Collaborate with teachers, parents, and administrators, to find effective solutions to academic and behavior problems                                                                                                                       
• Participate in service team meetings
• Participate in the case study process
• Observe students in the instructional environment in order to identify intervention strategies, barriers to interventions, and collect data pertinent to initial eligibility and re-evaluations
• Document evaluation results appropriately
• Evaluate a student's cognitive functioning when necessary
• Participate in the development of functional/behavioral analysis and the implementation of behavior plans
• Serve as LEA for Annual Reviews, Re-evaluations and Domain meetings. (required for middle school psychologist only)
• Collaborate with the building service team to schedule meetings.
• Serve as the LEA in FBA/BIP development and update meetings. (required for middle school psychologist only)
• Perform other duties as assigned by the principal, or other administrative staff.

Education

• Masters Degree and/or Specialist Degree in School Psychology.
• Type 73 certification with a School Psychology endorsement.
• Bilingual - Spanish/English (written/verbal) preferred.

Experience / Knowledge

• Knowledge of assessing student’s intellectual potential, achievement levels and social/emotional profile through the use of a variety of standardized tools.
• Highly skillful in gathering, utilizing and analyzing data that will assist in educational programming for students.
• A wealth of knowledge of various diagnostic tools.

Physical Demands

• Ability to work in a fast paced environment
• Ability to work with many interruptions throughout the course of the day

Terms of Employment

• This is a 184 day school year.  Salary and benefits as established by the Board of Education.