High School Psychologist

Singapore American School

**Job Description**:
HIGH SCHOOL SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGIST

**Minimum Position Qualifications**:

- Education Specialist (Ed.S), advanced certification, and/or Doctorate Degree as a Nationally Certified School Psychologist, clinical psychologist, or licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) or equivalent
- State and/or national certification as a school psychologist (National School Psychology Certification Board - NCSP - or equivalent) and/or licensure in clinical social work
- Successful experience as a school psychologist, clinical psychologist or social worker, and/or mental health professional
- Minimum 3 years successful professional experience working in complex, high achieving public or private high school(s).

SAS is committed to providing each student with an exemplary American education with an international perspective. We are seeking faculty and staff who wish to collaborate, innovate, and make a caring, positive difference within the SAS community.

**Specific Roles and Responsibilities**:
Social Emotional
- Collaborate and lead, when applicable, on crisis management across a range of scenarios from individual to whole school with school leadership and/or school counselors
- Provide individual, short term counseling to high risk students as needed.
- Lead prevention and awareness lessons, classes, seminars, etc in collaboration with high school team members to support social-emotional learning and well-being.
- Collaborate with teachers, parents, counselors and administrators to support student social-emotional learning.
- Identify resources and coordinate services with other professionals and/or agencies to address students’ behavioral, academic, or social needs.
- Participate in a Professional Learning Community with SAS Personal Academic Counselors..

Learning
- Aid in determination of eligibility for support services including administering and interpreting psychological-educational evaluations as needed for the purpose of identifying specific learning needs, including areas of strength and weakness that may be linked to targeted intervention strategies.
- Clearly communicate, both orally and in evaluation reports, assessment results to parents, students and faculty.
- Collaborate with teachers, parents, counselors and administrators to find effective strategies to support student learning, behavior, and mental health.
- Assist in the design and implementation of interventions linked to a wide variety of student needs.
- Case management of students who require in-direct services (i.e., accommodations).
- Lead and facilitate Student Support Meetings regularly to problem solve and develop personalized interventions to support student progress and learning.
- Become familiar with the SAS curricular benchmarks and academic expectations to evaluate student concerns in context of the learning environment and expectations.
- Collaborate with teachers and counselors to conduct functional behavior assessments and link to targeted behavioral supports for students.
- Understand and facilitate processes for requesting appropriate accommodations from the College Board or other external assessment organizations.
- Liaise with the admissions team to determine appropriate placement and services for applicants to SAS.
- Promote data-driven procedures and evidence based practices to evaluate effectiveness of programs and services.
- Lead progress monitoring of individual and division-wide student progress in academics and behavior.
- Generate, interpret and share useful student and school outcome (learning and behavior) data and evidence.
- Contribute to school-wide initiatives to analyze, improve, and streamline support services procedures. This includes leadership and participation in developing an MTSS process.
- Participate in a Professional Learning Community with SAS psychologists and/or learning support teachers.

Professional
- Adhere to standards of professional practice in the delivery of school psychological services.
- Uphold ethical standards in the absence of relevant laws and policies that govern practice as evidenced in the National Association of School Psychologists Practice Model.
- Participate in professional organizations and maintain credentials.
- Continually seek to improve professional knowledge and skill and remain current in best practice procedures in the field of school psychology.

Other Responsibilities
- Engage with the administration in a committed effort to improve one’s own skills
- Openly support and abide by all school policies and procedures
- Model the ‘Core Values’ in your interactions with the school community
- Liaise with the Principal, taking on tasks as assigned, including all school goals

Personal
- Demonstrate commitment to personal continuous professional growth and development
- Continue involvement with students in various capacities
- Develop and maintain effective working relationships
- Represent SAS with students, parents, staf