P-24-003 | Psychoeducator

Details of the position
Job title:
Psychoeducator
School / Centre / Department :
Offering services to elementary schools in the Massey Vanier High School sectorsof the ETSB territory.
Location :
Office location to be confimred
Workload :
60% / 21 hours per week
Salary :
$27.08 - $47.98 per hour
Supervisor :
Director of Complementary Services
Nature of the work
The position of psychoeducator encompasses, in particular, responsibility for carrying out prevention and screening activities, providing assistance and guidance as well as evaluating the adaptation difficulties and adaptive skills of students experiencing or likely to experience social maladjustments and determining a psychoeducational intervention plan and its implementation in order to create conditions to foster the student's optimal adaptation, restore and develop his or her adaptive skills and autonomy in interaction with his or her environment. He or she provides advice and support to school resources and parents.
Description of tasks
Participates in developing and implementing a psychoeducational service that meets the academic and administrative requirements of both the educational institutions and the school board.
Contributes to the screening and identification of students experiencing problems, using an approach focusing on prevention and intervention;
Plans and conducts evaluations of students' adaptation difficulties and adaptive skills
Gathers pertinent information from school or external resources and parents, selects and uses appropriate tests, conducts interviews, makes observations and analyzes data, as part of the individualized education plan, to meet the student's needs.
Works with a multidisciplinary team to draw up and review a student's individualized education plan
Works with teachers to develop and implement strategies and projects aimed at helping students who are experiencing or who are likely to experience social maladjustments.
Provides assistance and advice to school resources and parents of students with social maladjustments
Plans, organizes and conducts, in conjunction with other school or external resources, activities with classes or groups of students experiencing common difficulties or specific problems.
Designs, adapts or prepares materials based on the needs and abilities of students experiencing social maladjustments.
Advises management staff, prepares expertise, evaluation, briefing and progress reports and formulates appropriate recommendations to support decision making.
Provides advice and support to school resources in matters pertaining to the integration of students into regular classes and proposes appropriate intervention means or activities for students.
Establishes and maintains relationships and collaboration with partner organizations.
May be called upon to help defuse crisis or emergency situations and to propose solutions.
Prepares and updates files according to the standards related to the practice of the profession and the rules defined by the school board; he or she prepares progress notes or reports as well as end-of-process and follow-up reports on his or her interventions.
Desired profile
Be a member of the Ordre des psychoéducateurs et psychoéducatrices du Québec