2025-26 School Psychologist: Recruitment Pool

Overview Of Position

Seattle Public Schools utilizes ESA (OT, PT, Psych., SLP) Pools for various reasons related to recruitment.

• Pools provide ability to engage in recruitment of specialized prior to when specific vacancies are identified.
• Pools provide candidates the ability to create their profiles and refine their application for consideration.
• Pools will also be utilized for hard to fill recruitment throughout the year as well as for consideration related to potential Career Fair.
• Pool applicants will receive updates and email communication related to opening of site specific postings in the Spring with encouragement to apply for full consideration.
  
  

Please note that if you are a current contracted teacher with Seattle Public Schools, you do not need to fill out this application. You will apply directly to site specific positions through the internal transfer application when hiring for the 2025-26 school year begins in early spring.

Within the Department of Student Services and under the supervlslon of the Coordinator of Diagnostic Support Services and working in coordination with building principals and other staff; provides diagnostic and consultative psycho­logical services in accordance with Board policy and standards set by professional psychological organizations.

Essential Functions

• Consults and collaborates with parents, school staff, and outside agency personnel regarding the psycho-educational needs of students, their impli­cations, and means of intervening.
• Conducts multifactored psychological and psycho-educational assessments of children and youth, as appropriate, such assessments may use a variety of standardized and non-standardized instruments/procedures to collect data; areas assessed may include social-emotional adjustment, cognitive and aptitude, academic achievement, language and communication skills, learning styles, sen­sory and perceptual-motor functioning, adaptive behavior, environmental­cultural influences.
• Participates in facilitating the design and development of building level procedures to prevent educational failure and meet the mental health and learning needs of students.
• Integrates information into an accurate and useful overview to be used for determining intervention, programs and service needs; participates as a multidisciplinary team (MDT) member and compiles information, which may include a written report integrating assessment results and implications, and providing feedback to MDT members and parents for all students formally referred.
• Consults and collaborates in developing and maintaining positive relationships among students, parents and teachers, and involving them in assessment, inter­ventions, and program evaluation procedures.
• Provides, as appropriate, direct and indirect psychological interventions to facilitate the functioning of individuals and groups, such as developing, implementing and monitoring behavioral management strategies, providing group and individual counseling, designing intervention programs to enhance cogni­tive, affective, social, and vocational development in the school environment.
• Initiates, expedites, and manages referrals to other agencies and specialists, as appropriate.
• Integrates and interprets the steps and processes involved in implementing Board policies and other appropriate laws used in determining students· program and service needs.
• Develops and assists in the development of inservice and other skill ­enhancement activities for school personnel, parents and others within the school and district, where appropriate.
• May consult with program staff on how to design and interpret research to improve program effectiveness within total school programs, as appropriate.
• Performs related duties as assigned.
  
  

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

Ability to:

Communicate effectively in speech and writing; establish and maintain rela­tionships with students, parents, staff, and the public in a multicultural community; prepare diagnostic, planning, statistical, and other reports; work as a member of a team.

Typical Qualifications

EDUCATION:

B.A/B.S. degree in psychology plus completion of all requirements for a master's degree, of an approved program (except special examinations, projects or thesis) with a major or specialization in school psychology.

Length And Type Of Experience

Completion of a practicum or internship under supervision in an educational setting.

Preferred

Three (3) years professional psychological experience providing services to children and youth; National Certified School Psychologist certificate; experience working with students with limited English proficiency and multicultural, global and interdisciplinary education; teaching experience; knowledge pf public school operations; valid Washington State driver's license.

License

Valid Washington State ESA School Psychologist Certificate Knowledge of:

State and Federal laws in assigned area.

Seattle Public Schools benefits are administered by the Washington State Healthcare Authority (HCA) under the School Employees Benefits Board (SEBB). Click

Eligibility for benefits is determined by the number of hours employees are anticipated to work during the school year (September 1 through August 31). Any employee who is scheduled to work 630 hours or more in a year is eligible for benefits.

Salary Schedule

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Do you currently, or will you, hold a WA State Education Staff Associate Certificate?

• Yes
• No
  
  

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Please check ALL endorsement(s) that appear on your Washington State certificate or will be on your WA State Certificate by the position start date.

• Agricultural Education
• Arts: Visual
• Bilingual Elementary
• Bilingual Secondary
• Biology
• Business and Marketing
• Chemistry
• Counseling
• Dance
• Deaf Education
• Early Childhood
• Elementary Education
• English Language Arts
• English Language Learners
• Environmental and Sustainability
• Family and Consumer Sciences
• Gifted Education
• Health and Fitness
• Humanities: Middle Level
• History
• Library Media
• Mathematics
• Mathematics: Middle Level
• Music: Choral
• Music: General
• Music: Instrumental
• Reading
• Science
• Science: Earth and Space
• Science: Middle Level
• Science: Physics
• Social Studies
• Social Work
• Special Education
• Special Education: Early Childhood
• Technology Education
• Theater
• Traffic Safety
• World Languages: Arabic
• World Languages: Chinese
• World Languages: French
• World Languages: German
• World Languages: Hindi
• World Languages: Japanese
• World Languages: Korean
• World Languages: Latin
• World Languages: Spanish
• Not Applicable - I do not, nor will not hold a Washington State Teaching Certificate/Permit
• I hold an "unendorsed" Washington State Teaching Certificate/Permit
• Psychologist
  
  

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Please indicate your regional preference in relation to school location.

• Central
• North East
• North West
• South East
• South West
  
  

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Seattle Public Schools utilizes pooled postings for recruitment purposes in the Winter and Spring months prior to identifying site based vacancies. Please acknowledge that you understand that application and interview related to a specific school based posting will still be necessary.

• Yes
• No
  
  

05

Please acknowledge your understanding that references you list in this Pool application will receive system generated online forms to complete on your behalf. Please include professional references that can best speak to your abilities.

• Yes
• No
  
  

06

Please acknowledge that you understand that you are still expected and encouraged to apply to additional site specific job postings beyond this application.

• Yes
• No
  
  

Required Question