2024-25 School Year School Psychologist - Virginia Department of Education

Provides the full range of psychological services to schools, comprehensive service sites, and early childhood assessment teams, enabling students to achieve optimal learning; systematically collects, analyzes, synthesizes, and interprets data and information necessary to guide services such as consultation, counseling, behavioral assessment and intervention planning, and psychological evaluation in the educational setting.

 

Major Duties and Essential Functions

 

1. Provides a full range of psychological services to schools and centers or to a diagnostic unit in accordance with federal, state, and local regulations, particularly regarding valid and reliable instruments, nondiscriminatory testing, and adaptive testing procedures. 2. Supports and serves in a variety of settings and models which include general education, co-facilities, comprehensive service sites, preschool, and school-based services for students identified as having an emotional disability. 3. Administers and analyzes the results of diagnostic psychological instruments which assess students’ cognitive abilities, academic performance, interpersonal emotional/social functioning, and sensory-motor functioning. 4. Provides psychological observations, interviews, and evaluations and provides follow-up. 5. Provides crisis mental health services, including conducting suicide risk and mental health assessments. 6. Serves as a member of a school crisis team and divisionwide crisis response teams. 7. Determines schoolwide needs for specific psychological services through consultation with the principal and school staff and establishes priorities for service delivery within assigned schools. 8. Provides direct and indirect intervention to include counseling, consultation, and designing and implementing behavioral change programs and tiered intervention. 9. Collaborates with school personnel, central departments and offices, families, public agencies, and private practitioners, as required. 10. Leads and facilitates discussions among groups and individuals to reach consensus, resolve conflicts, or influence outcomes on matters of significance, such as intervention approaches. 11. Works as part of a team to ensure a program meets its goals. 12. Provides oral and written feedback to school personnel, families, and related professionals. 13. Makes or recommends referrals to county agencies, as required. 14. Manages the organization and processing of cases for special education eligibility, including monitoring, reviewing, and liaison tasks. 15. Guides families through the special education referral process. 16. Participates in the advanced academic program screening process. 17. Participates in local screening committee teams, administrative reviews, test reviews, and manifestation committees. 18. May deliver training and professional development. 19. May represent the Division in public meetings and/or present information to senior management team. 20. Maintains case management logs, completes reports, conducts statistical analysis, and presents findings and interpretation, as required. 21. Performs related duties as required or assigned.