Description
The Elementary Level T3 Student Support Program (or Tier 3) is an inclusion-based model of support for students with mental and behavioral health needs that interfere with daily school functioning and access to the general curricula. The goal of this program is to provide students with multidisciplinary emotional, behavioral, social, and academic support. Student have a regular schedule for their school day with their general education teachers, wrapped with program support.
Students receive a combination of individual therapeutic interventions; specific in-class support for academic functioning; and group instruction regarding social skills, emotional regulation, self-reflection, and coping skills for school-based stressors.
The goal of this program is to foster skills development in the areas of emotion regulation, academic resiliency, and socialization. By doing so, the intention is to decrease “out of class time” due to symptom interference, and increase each student’s ability to receive academic instruction.
Position Overview
This position is for the staff psychologist role in the Andover Public Schools elementary level T3/SSP program. This psychologist will oversee program operations at one elementary school. They will be partnered with a T3/SSP Sp.Ed. teacher and work with their multidisciplinary school-based team to support students (i.e. BCBA, social worker). Of note, we hope applicants will desire working within layered team supports. The APS psychology team works together in a peer supervision model, the admin supervisor of the psychology team is a neuropsychologist, and the T3/SSP psychologists in district are included on the district level broad mental health team alongside social work colleagues. In addition, each school building that has the T3/SSP program also has an additional psychologist who manages general building needs, such as the majority of
Responsibilities
- School-based case management of T3/SSP students
- Individualized program design
- Therapeutic Interventions
- Consultation to teachers/staff
- Progress monitoring
- Testing/Assessment for T3/SSP students
- Note: There is a second psychologist conducting most assessments.
- Work with multidisciplinary supports (i.e. social workers, BCBAs, SLPs, OTs, nursing)
- Prevention planning
Qualifications
- School Psychology certification by MA Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) is mandatory.
- Masters Degree or higher in psychology or related field is mandatory.
- National Certification in School Psychology (NCSP) is strongly preferred.
Supplemental Information
Application Materials:
- 3 letters of recommendation
- 2 or more redacted psychoeducational assessment reports
- Preference for a sample assessing SLD and a sample assessing social/emotional challenges.
- 1 or more FBA reports
- 1 or more BIPs
- 1 or more work samples related to intervention planning, progress monitoring, etc.