School Psychologist

The Department of Services for Children, Youth and their Families' (The Delaware Children’s Department) primary responsibility is to provide and manage a range of services for children who have experienced abandonment, abuse, adjudication, mental illness, neglect, or substance abuse.  Our services include prevention, early intervention, assessment, treatment, permanency, and after care.

We offer desirable career opportunities, attracting and retaining proud and talented employees who are motivated to think of the child first in all that they do.  The Department is the perfect place to kick-start your career!

For more information, please visit https://kids.delaware.gov/.

Essential functions are fundamental, core functions common to all positions in the class series and are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all job duties for any one position in the class. Since class specifications are descriptive and not restrictive, incumbents can complete job duties of similar kind not specifically listed here.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Support Child Find to identify students who may require special education services or who require interventions within the general education setting     
• Support the school's Multi-Tiered System of Supports and actively engage in the problem-solving process     
• Work closely with building Educational Diagnosticians     
• Conduct psychoeducational evaluations to determine initial and/or continued eligibility for special education services including compiling historical data, obtaining external data (medical, etc.) conducting interviews with the student, parent, current teachers, previous teachers, conducting classroom observations, conducting cognitive assessments, achievement assessments, behavior and social-emotional assessments and other assessments based on individual student need     
• Interpret and analyze data       
• Develop psychoeducational reports and Evaluation Summary Reports, attend the IEP meeting to report results and lead the IEP team in determining initial or continued eligibility for special education services     
• Consult with building administrators, teaching staff, Mental Health Clinicians, etc. as needed to support students within the educational/instructional environment      
• Support staff with data collection, developing IEP goals and progress monitoring relating to individual student behavioral and/or social-emotional needs     
• Review Evaluation Summary Reports received from home schools for all incoming students to determine compliance with federal and state eligibility regulations     
• Conduct initial and/or re-evaluations for students placed in out-of-state programs by DSCYF  and work closely with the Out-of-State Educational Diagnostician     
• Attend all 60-day IEP meetings and others as needed     
• Complete Functional Behavioral Assessments and develop Behavior Support Plans     
• Assist in providing professional development regarding eligibility determination and other as identified     
• Other as needed/assigned by the Supervisor of Special Education or Education Unit Supervisor

Applicants must have education, training and/or experience demonstrating competence in each of the following areas:

1. Educational Specialist (Ed. S.) degree in school psychology or equivalent (e.g. MA)
2. Must currently hold or be eligible for State of Delaware School Psychologist certification and licensure

Pre-employment Drug Testing:  Upon a conditional offer, you must undergo pre-employment drug testing as part of the hiring process.

Criminal background check: A satisfactory criminal background check is required as a condition of hire.  The recruiting agency may require the applicant to pay for the criminal background check as part of the conditional offer of hire.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. The State of Delaware Executive Branch participates in the Federal E-Verify system where the State will provide the federal government with each new hires Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. For more information refer to our job seeker resources.

This position is a classification organized under an exclusive bargaining representative (labor organization).  The candidate selected for this position shall be asked to join and pay dues to the labor organization or may, decline joining the labor organization and not pay dues or a fee.  The labor organization has been elected by employees as their representative for collective bargaining and other work related purposes.

The application and resume are evaluated based upon a rating of your education, training and experience as they relate to the job requirements of the position.  It is essential that you provide complete and accurate information on your application and resume to include dates of employment, job title and job duties.  For education and training, list name of educational provider, training course titles and summary of course content.   Narrative information supplied in response to the questions must be supported by the information supplied on the application including your employment, education and training history as it relates to the job requirements.  

Once you have submitted your application on-line, all future correspondence related to your application will be sent via email.  Please keep your contact information current.  You may also view all correspondence sent to you by the State of Delaware in the “My Applications” tab at Delaware State Jobs.