School Psychologist

Position Summary: School psychologists provide a full range of psychological services to support the academic and behavioral competence of students in grade K-6 in one or more sites in the Spero Academy School District.  Essential functions of these positions may include:

• * Utilizing evidence-based best practice in all aspects of work, including pre-referral interventions, consultations, and evaluations.
• * Participating in design, implementation, and evaluation of early intervention with children experiencing academic and behavioral difficulty.
• * Providing individual and group intervention services for students, including social skills training and crisis intervention.
• * Assisting in the development of crisis response teams and providing crisis response services.
• * Assessing individual students through direct and indirect methods, including use of the Minneapolis Problem-Solving Model.
• * Collaborating with peers to develop, plan, and implement best practices based on the needs/abilities of the students.
• * Supporting development and implementation of data collection and analysis systems to support data-based decision-making.
• * Adhering to due process requirements, state and federal laws regarding students with disabilities, and professional ethics and standards of school psychology.
• * Supporting building staff in developing good practices related to due process requirements.
• * Participating in revenue-generating activities required for special education personnel, including logging services for MA billing, using the web-based EasyIEP system, and participating in the 'random moment' study for administrative Medicaid-claiming and Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) Time Studies, as scheduled.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• * Ph.D. or Ed.S. Degree in school psychology is preferred but not required. 
• * Completion of graduate program in School Psychology that is (a) approved by NASP or consistent with NASP's Standards for Training and Field Placement Programs in School Psychology or was
• accredited, at the time of the applicant's graduation, by an agency approved by the U.S. Department of Education.
• * Valid Minnesota License in School Psychology or eligible for license.
• * Completion of supervised internship in school psychology.
• * Demonstrated continued professional development though course work, research, peer collaboration and/or job-embedded staff development.
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  This position description is not intended to describe, in detail, the multitude of tasks that may be assigned, but rather to give the employee a general sense of the responsibilities and expectations of their position. As the nature of business demands change, so too, may the essential functions of this position.

   

  Send resume and district application to:

  Spero Academy

  Human Resources, hr@spero.academy 

  2701 California Street NE, Minneapolis, MN55418

  kholzthum@spero.academy

   

  EOE/AA