Certified Personnel-Union

HEARTLAND AEA 11
6500 Corporate Drive
Johnston, IA 50131

Position: Title:    School Psychologist

Qualifications:
Minimum:
Appropriately licensed/certified by the Iowa Board of Educational Examiners. Post Masters level of professional training in an approved school psychology training program with institutional recommendations. Basic computer and technology skills.

Preferred:
Specialists or Masters plus thirty hours or equivalent preferred.

Accountable:        Partnership Director and Director of Special Education

Primary Objective of Position:
Assist director of special education while under the direct supervision of partnership director to provide services that assist parents and professionals in meeting the educational and mental health needs of children and youth.

Major Area of Accountability: *
1. Serve as an advocate for all children and youth.
2. Consult and collaborate with educators, parents, children, and other professionals or agencies to improve student outcomes.
3. Provide functional academic & behavioral assessments that are relevant to the presenting problem and student characteristics and are intervention and results oriented.
4. Develop individual, group or system level interventions, which improve or resolve the identified problems or concerns, including academic, social/emotional/behavioral, and mental health needs as they relate to educational progress.
5. Provide support, instruction, technical assistance, and ongoing monitoring of progress toward measurable, identified goals for students at individual, group, or systems level.
6. Provide staff development through membership in professional organizations, staff development, consulting, and research.
7. Involvement in data analysis and evaluation, using data outcomes for implementing plans at an individual, group or systems level.
8. Engage in public awareness activities that assist consumers in understanding services and the anticipated outcomes of these services.
9. Act in concert with legal requirements and ethical codes of the profession and the Iowa Board of Educational Examiners.
10. Participate in interdisciplinary staffings to determine the eligibility, appropriate planning, and re-evaluation for students who require special education programs and services.
11. Assist the program assistant for school psychology as directed in the supervision of interns and/or practicum students or personnel assigned by the director of special education.
12. Report any and all violations of rules and regulations to partnership director.
13. Demonstrates cultural competence and behaviors consistent with the core values, vision, and mission of Heartland AEA 11.
14. Other duties as assigned.

Requirements:   
Bending, carrying, climbing, must be able to travel between job sites, lifting, pushing-pulling, reaching, sitting, standing and walking.

Working Conditions:   

1.    Includes extremes of temperature and humidity.   

2.    Hazards include stairs and communicable diseases.

Length of Contract:    192 days

*All areas of accountability considered essential functions of the job.

11/07