School Psychologist, Primary School

The School Psychologist delivers a planned and coordinated program of psychological services including the integration of school wide counseling and learning specialist services. They collaborate closely with principals, faculty, and parents to support the success of students (academically, socially, behaviorally, and emotionally) and ensure that students along the entire continuum of learning capabilities receive equitable access to the curriculum, appropriate instruction, support and services.

The School Psychologist assists in the identication of needs, ongoing services and monitoring required for Tier 3 support plans. This requires consulting and collaborating effectively with various constituent groups (e.g. learning specialists, counselors, faculty, parents, and administrators) regarding students with identied learning needs and/or behavior concerns. The School Psychologist collaborates closely with the Student Services Director to implement Child Protection and Safeguarding policies and procedures and serves as the lead safeguarding officer during crisis intervention.

This position requires frequent contact and collaboration with multiple levels of the school’s constituencies, including the Student Services Director, Associate Head of School, Lower and Upper Primary principals, teachers, counselors, and families and parent groups.

• Participate in Student Services meetings (e.g. Student Review Teams, Principal/Learning Specialist/Parent meetings) with parents and colleagues as appropriate and/or when requested in order to assist in facilitating appropriate programs and services for individual students.
• Serve as a consultant/resource to faculty and administrators regarding the implementation of appropriate instructional interventions, monitoring of students’ progress, discipline and behavioral issues; this includes observing students in their classroom environment.
• Serve as the lead safeguarding officer during crisis intervention and child protection situations.
• Provide consultation to teachers, parents and administrators around signicant student learning and mental health issues.
• Provide counselling, instruction and mentoring to those students struggling with social, emotional, and behavioral problems.
• Assist with the referral process and interpretation of psycho-educational assessments from third parties to determine the appropriate intervention strategies.
• Consult with the Admissions team and Lower and Upper Primary Administration on challenging and complex admissions decisions.
• Support teachers in developing differentiated instructional strategies and behavior management practices for students of varying abilities who share a common classroom setting.
• Develop faculty’s capacity for instructional strategies specic to students with learning needs.

• Collaborate with the Student Services Director and school-wide leadership to ensure there is consistent implementation of HKIS’s Safeguarding policy and child protection procedures.
• Collaborate with school wide counsellors and divisional administration to determine a consistent approach to Risk Assessment procedures (i.e., harm to self or others).
• Provide professional development for counselors, faculty and administrators on Child Safeguarding and Risk Assessment procedures.

• Provide in-service training and workshops to ensure faculty and administrators are knowledgeable about best practices in the area of child safeguarding, special education and learning support services; e.g. on-going child protection training, responding to crises, options for providing support within and outside of the classroom, how to best match the support with the individual child’s learning needs, intervention strategies.
• Develop faculty’s capacity for instructional strategies specic to students with learning needs.
• Coordinate professional development for learning specialists aligned with best practice in relevant areas; e.g. self-regulation, social communication.
• Develop Learning Support teachers' skills to differentiate behavior management practices for…