School Psychologist

**School Psychologist (12 month)**:
**South Shore Regional Centre for Education**

The South Shore Regional Centre for Education (SSRCE) practices the culturally responsive pedagogy approach in providing an inclusive, diverse, equitable, safe and healthy education that supports learning and success both personally and academically to the 59,000 residents of Lunenburg and Queens Counties, an area of 5,250 square kilometres and a total of 23 schools.

School Psychologist 12 Month - Term - Req# 81447

Date: August 30, 2023

Location: Bridgewater, NS, CA, B4V 0A2

Position: School Psychologist (12 month)

Reports to: Coordinator of Student Services

Employee Group: NSTU

Application Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 10/31/2023 at 11:59pm.

Effective Date(s) (mm/dd/yyyy): 08/01/2023 - 12/29/2023

Position Type: 100% Term
- Qualifications:

- Registered with NS Board of Psychology
- Graduate degree in school psychology
- Extensive training and experience in psychology

**Experience**:

- The ability to work and communicate effectively within a team environment
- Advanced technological skills
- The ability to conduct presentations based on current best practices.
- Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to introduce a positive influence to initiatives.
- The ability to contribute to board initiatives.

Task Dimensions:

- Provides consultation services. For example:

- Consulting and working collaboratively with school personnel, parents/guardians, and outside agencies to meet the needs of the child
- Providing parents/guardians with specific information about their child’s development and its relationship to typical child development
- Consulting with teachers, parents and community groups on a variety of topics (e.g. information on specific disorders, interpreting assessment results, understanding student’s strengths and needs and how they relate to classroom functioning)
- Consulting in the program planning process to make appropriate recommendations and plans for students
- Consulting with teachers on effective classroom management.
- Assisting educators in the interpretation of psychological reports from outside agencies (e.g. IWK Health Centre, private practice, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services)
- Provide professional development for school staff as necessary.
- Remain current in best practices related to consultation.
- Provides assessment services. For example:

- Observation in various settings (e.g. classroom, gym, music room, etc),
- Interviewing (e.g. parent/guardian, teachers, student)
- Collecting relevant data ( e.g. school history, developmental history, Student Record review, referral form)
- Performing informal assessments (e.g. work samples, checklists)
- Performing formal standardized testing (e.g. cognitive, achievement, behavioral, adaptive functioning, social-emotional, developmental)
- Interpreting ( e.g. profile analysis, integration of information from a variety of sources)
- Report writing (integration of information from all sources available; presented in an accessible language for school personnel, parents/guardians, students (if appropriate), and other professionals; specific to a particular student.)
- Remain current in best practices related to assessment.
- Provides intervention services. For example:

- Planning and implementing interventions for specific students with identified behavioural and/or academic problems
- Collaborating with program planning teams to develop adaptations, Individual program Plans (IPP’s), and transition plans.
- Delivering supportive programs for student’s social-emotional skill, self-regulation and achievement.
- Offering crisis intervention at the school/board level
- Supporting the school personnel and parents/guardians in the implementation of recommendations and plans
- Providing short-term personal counselling to students
- Developing strategies/interventions for classroom management
- Remain current in best practices related to intervention.
- Complies with the Occupational Health and Safety Act and Regulations.
- Performs other related duties as required.

Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.

SECURITY CHECKS:
The South Shore Regional Centre for Education requires that all newly hired employees provide a satisfactory Child Abuse Register Check and Criminal Record / Vulnerable Sector Checks. If you have current ones less than 3 months old you can attach these checks to your profile / resume.

We thank you for your interest in the posted vacancy. The appointment to this vacancy will be according to Article 47 of the Teachers Provincial Agreement.

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