School Psychologist

Regional School District No; Harwinton (CT); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Regional School District #10 is seeking a School Psychologist for Harwinton Consolidated Elementary School to support students across the school community. The role emphasizes interventions, counseling, and instructional support to strengthen social-emotional skills and mental health competencies.

The ideal candidate will address barriers to learning with proactive, preventative, and responsive services, collaborating with families, teachers, BTs, and related service providers.

Qualifications

• Strong communication skills (verbal and written).
• Proactive, preventative, and responsive services for students.
• Experience with students with mental health or behavioral challenges.
• Ability to collect/analyze data to guide interventions.
• Collaboration with families, teachers, and related service providers.

Responsibilities

• Address barriers to learning through proactive and responsive services for students, families, and staff.
• Provide direct and indirect services including counseling, interventions, and instructional support.
• Collaborate with teams to promote inclusive practices and positive behavioral supports.

Skills

Verbal & written communication

Collaboration with stakeholders

Professional services quality

Student mental health support

Data-driven decision making

Teamwork with BTs & service providers

Education

CT Endorsement for School Psychologist

Job description

School Psychologist – Harwinton Consolidated Elementary School

The School Psychologist plays a vital role in supporting the healthy development of students within the entire school community, with a particular focus on students in our RISE and BEST programs. The Psychologist provides both direct and indirect services through interventions, instructional support, and counseling to help students build social-emotional skills and strengthen mental health competencies.

A key responsibility of this position is addressing barriers to learning by offering proactive, preventative, and responsive services to students, families, and the school community. The Psychologist is a key member of the team and must have strong collaboration and communication skills to work effectively with all stakeholders including students, families, teachers, BTs, and related service providers.

The ideal candidate will have experience working with students who present with significant mental health or behavioral challenges and who may be at risk of more restrictive placements. This individual will be skilled at teaching coping and social skills, developing student resilience, and fostering inclusion so that students can succeed within the least restrictive environment.

Qualifications

• CT Endorsement for School Psychologist
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Contribute to a positive school climate
• Ability to provide high quality professional services and sound practice to the whole school community.
• Experience working with children and adolescents with a variety of learning, behavioral, and social challenges including emotional disturbance, autism, intellectual disabilities, high functioning autism, and/or school refusal
• Ability to provide a variety of intervention approaches across the mental health spectrum.
• Ability to collect and analyze quantitative and qualitative data and make appropriate changes in response to that data
• Work proactively and collaboratively with team members for individual student and whole-school outcomes
• Knowledge or practice in the areas of Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS), and/or Scientifically Research Based Interventions (SRBI)
• Ability to work collaboratively with teams, community service providers, state agencies, outside service providers and families
• Demonstrate teacher‑leadership qualities to bring initiative and innovation to the department in the above areas

Regional School District #10 is an Equal Opportunity Employer and by policy does not discriminate against a person because of age, race, color, religion, sex, national origin and handicap or gender identity.