School Psychology Intern

Chesterfield County Public Schools; United States; Presencial; USD 22.000 - 32.000; A tiempo parcial

Descripción de la vacante

Chesterfield County Public Schools seeks an Intern Psychologist to provide professional educational and psychological services for students during the 2027-2028 school year. The role includes academic and behavioral interventions, psycho-educational assessments, and collaboration with teachers, parents, and administrators.

The intern will support crisis intervention, participate in referral and eligibility meetings, and work with a multidisciplinary team under supervision of a licensed school

Formación

• Advanced knowledge of the concepts, principles and methodologies of school psychology including psychological evaluation using intelligence, personality, psycho-motor function, behavioral and personality instruments.
• Advanced knowledge of federal and state regulations and guidelines related to special education and pupil services programs.
• Demonstrated ability in individual and group decision-making, problem analysis and conflict resolution and to collaborate with other therapeutic and instructional personnel.

Responsabilidades

• Provides academic and behavioral intervention services for students in collaboration with classroom teachers.
• Develops and refines skills in understanding and applying research data and research studies as it relates to interventions and support at the school level.
• Consults and assists teachers to determine and implement appropriate academic and behavioral interventions in classrooms.
• Consults with other psychologists to enhance and broaden the internship experience.
• Consults and collaborates with parents, teachers, students and administrators.

Conocimientos

School psychology

Psycho-educational assessments

Interventions

Collaboration

Educación

Graduate student in school psychology

Descripción del empleo

Our outstanding teachers, support staff members and leaders are top-notch educators whom others seek to emulate, and quite simply – we would like for you to consider joining us.

General Description

Under supervision, provides professional educational and psychological services to students to include classroom interventions, student assessments and placement recommendations, individual and group counseling, consultation services to staff and parents and crisis intervention. Complex work is performed within specific program objectives and policies; the employee communicates with teachers and other school personnel to plan work and coordinate with others to ensure service effectiveness. Contacts are made regularly and frequently with instructional and administrative personnel, as well as, with community resource personnel.

Job Description

*This is for the 2027-2028 school year.

• Provides academic and behavioral intervention services for students in collaboration with classroom teachers.
• Develops and refines skills in understanding and applying research data and research studies as it relates to interventions and support at the school level.
• Consults and assists teachers to determine and implement appropriate academic and behavioral interventions in classrooms.
• Consults with other psychologists to enhance and broaden the internship experience.
• Consults and collaborates with parents, teachers, students and administrators.
• Serves as a liaison between home, school and community.
• Coordinates community resources to address child and family needs.
• Performs psycho-educational assessments of students, observations, data collection, interpretation and analyses.
• Participates in referral and eligibility meetings of students to identify strengths and weaknesses and to develop student interventions.
• Assists teams in determining the eligibility of students for various programs.
• Provides written evaluations that are reviewed and co-signed by supervisor, as required by state, federal and local guidelines.
• Works with a critical incident team in the schools, including reaction to illness, death and abuse.
• Provides individual and group counseling services.
• Develops and coordinates various psychological services available to students and staff.
• Provides training to staff and parents.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Budgetary Responsibility: N/A Report Preparation: N/A Equipment Operation: Intern Psychologist must be knowledgeable and proficient with technology skills. General office equipment.

Contacts: Students, parents, school staff and outside community agencies.

Work Direction/Supervision: N/A Decision-Making: Performs work tasks under the supervision of a VDOE licensed school psychologist.

Formal Policy-Setting Responsibilities: N/A Physical Demands: 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. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, printed materials related to test delivery, and talk and hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, sit and drive. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close and distance vision and depth perception.

Work Environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee performs work in various locations within the public school system. Frequent travel is required within the school system. Work may require transport of some materials from location to location. The noise level in the work environment is quiet to moderate.

Qualifications

Advanced knowledge of the concepts, principles and methodologies of school psychology including psychological evaluation using intelligence, personality, psycho-motor function, behavioral and personality instruments; of child growth and development, learning organization, measurement, research and statistics and of intervention strategies. Advanced knowledge of federal and state regulations and guidelines related to special education and pupil services programs. Demonstrated ability in individual and group decision-making, problem analysis and conflict resolution and to collaborate with other therapeutic and instructional personnel.

Additional Job Requirements

Interns must be enrolled in a graduate level school psychology program. Applicants considered for employment must successfully complete the following background investigations/tests: Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Criminal History Investigation State Police Criminal History Investigation Child Protective Services (CPS) Investigation Tuberculosis Screening/Test.

Compensation

Compensation $19.60 per hour

Benefits

Chesterfield County Public Schools offers a wide variety of benefits to employees. Benefit offerings may differ based upon full-time and part-time employee status. Chesterfield County Public Schools assures Equal Employment Opportunities for employees as required by Federal and State Orders and Laws. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential tasks. This job description is intended to accurately reflect the position activities and requirements. However, administration reserves the right to modify, add, or remove duties and assign other duties as necessary. It is not intended to be and should not be construed as an all-inclusive list of all the responsibilities, skills, or working conditions associated with the position and does not imply an employment contract.

As one of the largest and most innovative school divisions in the nation, Chesterfield County Public Schools is committed to creating a better tomorrow through authentic and captivating learning experiences. With work guided by the values of equity, integrity, teamwork and ingenuity, we believe that a better tomorrow is created one student at a time. Through our strategic plan, Imagine Tomorrow, our focus is to create an infinite learner mindset while encouraging students and staff to exemplify personal responsibility and supportive relationships. We think our schools are pretty amazing, but we aren’t the only ones. Our award-winning school division – which includes six National Blue Ribbon Schools, seven National Title I Distinguished Schools and six Middle Schools to Watch – is often cited as the reason people choose to live and work here. Educators from outside of our school division routinely visit our nationally-recognized schools to learn more about what we are doing, how we are doing it and why we are doing it.

Our outstanding teachers, support staff members and leaders are top-notch educators whom others seek to emulate, and quite simply – we would like for you to consider joining us.

You have a choice to make, and we would like for you to choose Chesterfield.