Specific responsibilities include:
- General program management, supervision, and oversight
- Providing consultation/training periodically to Milestones' staff
- Providing diagnostic & psychological assessments (including personality/projective assessments)
- Writing reports & effectively presenting information, test results, diagnoses, & recommendations at meetings in a manner easily understood by the team (including family) & when appropriate, the student
- Liaison to students' outside psychologists and psychiatrists
- Provide individual & weekly small group therapy (classes up to 8 students) for 5 classrooms (2 elementary and 3 middle school)
- Consult with families occasionally
- Provide crisis intervention in situations requiring immediate psychological treatment
- Evaluate the progress of therapeutic programs and make individual modifications
- Assess mental status (including suicidality) in students and develop plans based on findings
- Write IEP goals, benchmarks, and progress reports for the psychological aspects of the students' IEPs
- Continue to keep up with professional development for current trends in the field (Milestones provides stipends for professional development)
Requirements:
- Ph.D., Psy.D., Ed.D. in Psychology or licensed school psychologist (MA, MS, or CAGS)
- Licensed in the state of Massachusetts
- Knowledge and experience with a variety of assessment instruments, including administration, scoring, and interpretation
- Knowledge and experience of a wide variety of psychological methods. Mindfulness, DBT & CBT, preferred
- Knowledge and experience with students who have autism spectrum disorders and various mental health challenges (e.g., anxiety, OCD, DMDD, or ADHD, etc.)
- Knowledge of special education systems and laws preferred
- Desire to keep abreast of current information on various diagnoses and treatment methods through professional development
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Strong organizational skills & experience with being a team player
- Strong empathy and understanding of both students who have disabilities and parents who have children with disabilities
- Excellent critical thinking, written, and verbal skills
- Ability to maintain emotional stability to cope with human suffering, emergencies, and other stresses
