SUMMARY

Assess students for special education eligibility, instructional interventions and coordinate placement and service delivery.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following:

• Collaborate with campus RTI Committee regarding data collection, analysis, interventions, and assessment planning prior to Special Education referral.
• Prepare for and conduct all ARD meetings within state adopted timelines.
• Complete full individual evaluations and re-evaluations within state adopted timelines.
• Coordinate and consult with school staff, related service providers, parents, medical professionals, and community agencies regarding the assessment of student, implementation of the IEP, and movement toward more restrictive environments.
• Development of students’ transition plan, including coordinating outside agencies and training for students and parents.
• Maintain accurate paperwork to reflect 100% compliance with federal, state, and local guidelines as reflected by district accountability system.
• LSSPs file Medicaid tickets per departmental timelines.
• Disseminate to appropriate staff accurate and appropriate information regarding up-to-date special education legal requirements and/or changes and how those changes affect student placement.
• Support Special Education department initiatives (PBMAS & SPP related actions)
• Assist with planning and presentation of professional development programs for special education personnel.
• Assist with planning and presentation of professional development programs for general and special education personnel as requested by administration.
• Participate in department meetings and planning to ensure compliance and delivery of best practice services.
• Assist in the revision of special education operating guidelines, forms and procedures.
• Perform other tasks as may be assigned by Supervisor/Superintendent.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

None

QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to effectively manage professional staff and parents, counseling students with anxiety and depressive disorders, psychological assessments.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

Master’s Degree; and at least six hours of Special Education course work and six hours of testing course work.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Ability to read, analyze, and interpret educational periodicals, professional journals, educational procedures, or governmental laws and regulations.  Ability to write reports, educational correspondence, and procedure manuals.  Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from administrators, faculty, parents and students.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers and decimals.  Ability to draw and interpret bar graphs.  Ability to formulate and interpret statistical data such as mean, mode, median, and standard deviation.  Ability to apply determination of test reliability and validity analysis of variance correlation techniques, sampling theory factor analysis.

REASONING ABILITIES

Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.  Ability to interpret and extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

Registered Educational Diagnostician or Licensed Specialist in School Psychology and/or nationally certified school Psychologist.

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 stand and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to sit; use hands to finger, handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; prolonged standing; frequent kneeling/squatting, bending/stooping, pushing/pulling, and twisting.  The employee is occasionally required to walk. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, and ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those and employee encounters while performing 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 frequently required to travel within the district to multiple campuses.  The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.