<p>Job Description:</p> <p>ESSENTIAL DUTIES and RESPONSIBILITIES:</p> <p>Duties/Responsibilities</p> <ul> <li>Conduct comprehensive psychological evaluations as part of the initial, targeting, and three-year review process for students with significant behavioral, emotional, social, and adaptive concerns. </li><li>Participate in Planning and Placement Team (PPT) meetings to review evaluation results and plan for future educational programming. </li><li>Develop and co-facilitate general and topic-specific social-emotional counseling groups, such as weekly whole-classroom group sessions, trauma-specific interventions, and social skills groups. </li><li>Develop, assess, and maintain systems-level behavioral and social-emotional programming. </li><li>Maintain and modify systems-level data collection, analysis, and management systems (e.g., SWIS, student success sheets, Google Looker Studio) according to school and student needs and behavioral presentations. </li><li>Support staff in utilizing data-based decision-making to implement or modify instructional procedures. </li><li>Support the development of functional behavioral assessment procedures including data collection, analysis of collected data, developing a functional analysis, conceptualizing the conditions under which behavior occurs, and reporting on findings in oral and written form. </li><li>Support the development of behavior intervention plans (BIPs) based on a functional assessment, support staff training for implementation, and monitor progress of intervention and modify as needed. </li><li>Conduct parent, and staff training as appropriate. </li><li>Assist in crisis response efforts, including suicide risk assessments, threat assessments, behavior, crisis counseling, and emergency physical management (Safety Care), while promoting proactive strategies to create a safe and supportive school environment. </li><li>Consult and collaborate with administrators, special education teachers, school social workers, associate instructors, BCBAs, speech and language pathologists, occupational therapists, physical therapists, nursing staff, outside providers, and families. </li><li>Comply with all company policies and procedures. </li><li>Other duties as assigned. </li></ul> <p>Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.</p> <p>QUALIFICATIONS:</p> <ul> <li>Qualified candidates must be enrolled in and a candidate in good standing within a doctoral program (Ph.D. or Psy.D.) in Clinical or School Psychology. </li><li>Must have successfully completed pre-internship expectations as defined by their respective programs. </li><li>Preferred qualifications: Masters degree in psychology or a related field, behavior analysis, or education/special education. </li></ul> <p>TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS</p> <p>Motor Vehicle Operator's License or ability to provide transportation to job sites, meetings, trainings, and professional learning opportunities as required.</p> <p>PHYSICAL DEMANDS & WORK ENVIRONMENT:</p> <p>The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.</p> <ul> <li>Standing (frequently, 1/3 - 2/3) </li><li>Walking (frequently, 1/3 - 2/3) </li><li>Sitting (frequently, 1/3 - 2/3) </li><li>Reach with hands and arms (occasionally, less than 1/3) </li><li>Stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl (occasionally, less than 1/3) </li><li>Lifting up to 10 lbs. (occasionally, less than 1/3) </li><li>Carrying up to 10 lbs. (occasionally, less than 1/3) </li><li>Moderate Noise (examples: business office with typewriters and/or computer printers, light traffic) </li></ul> <p>DISCLAIMER STATEMENT:</p> <p>The above is intended to describe the general content of and requirements for the performance of this job. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of duties, responsibilities or physical requirements. Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.</p> <p>To access the job description and salary range please click https://www.crec.org/careers/jobs.php</p> <p>JOB ID 13365 @ CREC: External Job Opportunities | Careers | Hartford, Connecticut</p>