School Psychologist

The Barre Unified Union School District is seeking a District School Psychologist to work as part of the Special Services Team for the 2024-25 school year. The candidate should have an understanding of Vermont Special Education Regulations, tiered systems of supports and experience in the evaluation and identification of students with disabilities. Essential duties include: - Possesses accurate and current knowledge of Vermont Statutes, State and Local policies, and procedures for students with disabilities and be in compliance with State and Federal regulations, relating to IDEA, Section 504, as well as regular education procedures. - Conducts psychological assessments of individual students’ cognitive, academic, behavioral, social, and emotional functioning using standardized, norm-referenced cognitive measures, achievement measures, behavior rating scales and checklists, and social- emotional rating scales. - Assists school staff in the development and monitoring of cognitive, academic, behavioral, social, and emotional goals for individual students or groups of students identified as exhibiting significant educational needs and/or disabilities with a focus on facilitating instructional objectives, academic achievement, and positive behavioral outcomes. - Summarizes, integrates, and interprets information from consultations, record reviews, observations, assessments, or evaluations to identify individual patterns of strengths and weaknesses, assist in the determination of educational disabilities and facilitate development of effective instructional and behavioral interventions. - Provides oral and written reports of consultations, record reviews, observations, assessments, and evaluations to parents, school staff, and outside agencies as appropriate. - Conducts observations of individual students or groups of students in the classroom and/or the broader school setting; obtaining, integrating, and interpreting information about student behavior and conditions related to learning. - Serves as a staff resource with respect to disability categories, differentiated instruction, progress monitoring, and analysis of assessment results. - Attends evaluation meetings associated with programming for students eligible for special education, to provide synthesis and consultation regarding evaluation results; understands the IEP evaluation (annual and triennial process) - Consults regularly with classroom teachers, special educators and paraprofessionals and their teacher partners about student needs and accommodations. - Provides school-wide training, short-term individual counseling, small group intervention (or other educationally-oriented intervention) as determined by the IEP needs and/or disabilities with an emphasis on facilitating growth in the school setting - Provides liaison services and meeting facilitation with independent practitioners and community agencies to facilitate coordination of assessments, interventions, and educational programs for individual students or groups of students. - Acts as a resource for parents/caregivers and students with provision of referral information related to mental health needs. - Provides crisis intervention services to students in situations involving trauma, behavioral and emotional disturbance, and potentially harmful, aggressive, or violent behavior to self and/or others. - Participates in committees, staff meetings, and professional learning communities within the school to provide information regarding cognitive, academic, behavioral, social, and emotional needs of students - Provides reports to administration as requested including annual report of number of students evaluated and served. - Serves as a member of the District-wide evaluation team - Complete Medicaid documentation for Medicaid eligible students.