School Psychologist-AkroTech

School Psychologist – Akro Tech Performance Academies – Akron, OH, US

Job title:

School Psychologist. Classification:
Exempt.

Reports to:

Director of Student Services. Organization/Unit:
Support. Approved by Human Resources. Effective date: 5/14/2025.

Job Purpose The School Psychologist provides comprehensive psychological services to support students' academic, social, emotional, and behavioral development.

• Student Learning Consults with teachers and intervention specialists in the area of classroom behavior management, academic and behavioral interventions, and proper implementation of IEP and BIP goals.
• Consults and collaborates with principals regarding the special education program, RTI processes, best practices in running IAT meetings, pre-referral interventions, and proper implementation of BIPs.
• Promotes school policies and practices aligned with the Character Education and anti-bullying programs and ensures the safety of all students by reducing school violence, bullying, and harassment.
• Conducts group sessions with students related to anti-bullying strategies, anger management strategies, problem solving, self-regulation, and self-determination.
• Provides counseling, instruction, and mentoring for those struggling with social, emotional, and behavioral problems.
• Helps the schools increase achievement by assessing barriers to learning and determining the best instructional strategies to improve learning, consulting with appropriate staff to mentor them and facilitate success.
• Enhances school-wide understanding and acceptance of diverse cultures and backgrounds.
• Identifies and addresses learning and behavior problems that interfere with school success.
• Supports students' social, emotional, and behavioral health.
• Designs and supports implementation of academic and behavioral interventions.
• Implements school-wide prevention programs that help maintain positive school climates conducive to learning.
• Participates in IAT meetings, ETR meetings, serves as a diagnostic member of the IEP team, and supports the development of IEPs and ETRs.
• Conducts functional behavioral assessments (FBAs) and oversees or writes draft BIPs as needed.
• Provides oversight to special education processes, including compliance.
• Evaluates eligibility for special education services (within a multidisciplinary team).
• Designs and implements student progress monitoring systems.
• Collects and analyzes data related to school improvement, student outcomes, and accountability requirements.
• Enhances home–school collaboration and provides support to parents as needed or requested. Makes referrals and helps coordinate community support services as appropriate.
• Responds to crises by providing leadership, direct services, and coordination with needed community services.
• Designs, implements, and garners support for comprehensive school mental health programming.
• Coordinates the delivery of services to students and their families in and outside of school.
• Helps students transition to and from school and community learning environments, such as residential treatment or juvenile justice programs.
• Meets with the management team, Sponsors, ODE, or other officials and agencies as requested by the CEO, Director of Student Services, and Chief of Staff. Conducts training with staff as requested by the CEO, Chief of Staff, and Director of Student Services related to the student services program, interventions, special education service delivery, and compliance.
• Follows all prescribed Board policies faithfully.
• Reads and understands all policies outlined in staff handbook and student handbook/code of conduct.
• Refrains from discussing student or parent issues with staff members outside of IAT meetings, except as needed to ensure educational efficacy of student; never discusses student or parent issues with other parents or the public; this also includes other professionals, including doctors, psychologists, attorneys, dentists, social workers, or anyone without explicit written, parent consent.
• Keeps all student identifying information confidential at all times and all parent and student correspondences and communications confidential at all times.
• Reports…