Quad Preparatory School

Upper School Post-Doctoral Fellow in Clinical Psychology (2020-2021 School Year)

Updated: January 18, 2020

Classification: Exempt

Reports to: Upper School Chief Psychologist

The Quad Preparatory School is an alternative, non-profit, K-12 college preparatory school dedicated to the education of twice-exceptional students, bright and creative children who learn differently. Quad Prep is a young, fast-growing school founded in 2013 that is a vibrant professional and collegial learning community for employees.

The Quad Preparatory School transforms the lives of twice-exceptional people – those who are gifted and learn differently – by redefining the experience of school. Our personalized model fully integrates social and emotional learning with challenging academics, empowering our students to rise to the level of their extraordinary talents. Through our innovative programs we are leading a larger movement in service of both twice-exceptional people and society at large.

Our teachers, clinicians, and staff joined together to craft our statement of values, which we are proud to share:

• Quad Prep is a kind and joyful learning community where everyone is celebrated for who they are.

• We ignite students’ strengths and passions and allow for safe academic pursuit at the highest levels by learning from mistakes.

• We are trustworthy and steadfast, and our high academic expectations challenge students to grow uniquely as people and in the way they learn.

• We widen our students’ perspectives, giving them the tools to know themselves and find success in the future of their choosing. 

• We never give up on each other and are driven by the ethos of “not if, but how.”

The Quad Preparatory School is looking for a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Clinical Psychology to join our team of Upper School clinicians in providing effective, integrated school-based intervention. The post-doctoral fellow will be supervised in carrying a caseload of school-age students in grades 6th to 12th. The post-doctoral fellow’s role includes supervising psychosocial teachers or undergraduate trainees  in carrying over clinical strategies throughout the school day and implementing psychosocial frameworks. The post-doctoral fellow will receive internal trainings on frameworks adopted at the Quad Prep, including Collaborative and Proactive Solutions and the Social Thinking methodology; additional professional development includes weekly didactics, attendance at the annual Breakthroughs in Twice Exceptional Education conference hosted by Quad Prep, and two weeks of staff training prior to the beginning of the school year. The clinical team at Quad Prep is highly collaborative, a trait that the post-doctoral fellow must uphold to provide personalized support to each enrolled student. While the post-doctoral fellow position is a one-year position, our growing program has opportunities at times for staff trained on site to grow into a licensed professional position. 

Expectations:

• Provide individual and group counseling to a direct caseload students, and complete session notes and other data tracking of student goals. 
• Co-lead social cognition and academic seminar groups, and provides psychosocial guidance in classrooms.
• Co-teach seminars with academic teachers according to school’s integration model.
• Lead sub-specialty area/project of the clinical team, to be determined by supervisor; examples include Teacher Child Interaction Therapy implementation, research/data collection, psychosocial curriculum implementation.
• Supervise undergraduate or pre-graduate level psychosocial interns, psychosocial teachers, and/or paraprofessionals; evaluate performance of pre-graduate level psychosocial interns; oversee psychosocial interns’ and psychosocial teachers’ data tracking of students’ goals through Daily Report Cards
• Conduct weekly supervision/consultation with supervisees and ensure responsibilities of supervisees are carried out.
• Perform timely risk assessment and ensure all follow-up.
• Before start of school year, along with the child’s psychosocial team, identify goals for each student to begin tracking immediately upon commencement of school year.  Assure the development and timely revision of each student’s plan to allow for tracking of goals.
• Schedule monthly collaborative calls with each student’s outside providers and student’s parents (all parties on same call), and collaborate with parents and outside providers as frequently as needed.
• Participate in weekly Psychosocial Team meetings with all faculty and staff.
• Organize daily after-school meetings with faculty and staff to cover any changes needed for the following day.
• Advise and coach teachers and staff in regards to each child's individual therapeutic needs, the psychosocial curriculum and psychosocial clinical best practices; collaborate with other clinicians on students’ teams to determine best approach for each student.
• Competently utilize Google Suite, in particular Google Drive and Docs.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Competencies:

1. Passion for working with children
2. Desire and ability to work with students with special needs
3. Ability to connect with middle school and high school- age children
4. Knowledge of various clinical interventions and use of a collaborative approach to meet the unique needs of each child
5. Effective oral and written communication skills
6. A solid understanding of adolescent-age children’s academic, social, and emotional development
7. Attention to detail
8. Maintaining confidentiality and privacy
9. Ethical conduct
10. Time management and the ability to multitask
11. Teamwork and collaboration
12. Patience and flexibility

Work Environment: 

This job operates in a school setting. The school is located on the fifth and sixth floors of a building with one elevator. This role requires working in various locations around the school and the potential for accompanying students to a local park or outings in the community.

Physical Demands: 

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and listen. This position is very active and requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, and stooping all day. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move items under 20 pounds. During fire drills, the employee, unless physically unable, will need to use the stairs to go to ground level from the fourth floor. Typing is required for composing emails and writing reports. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Position Type and Expected Hours of Work: 

This is a full-time position in an educational facility which is open eight hours a day. The 2020-2021 school year contract begins July 1, 2020. Clinicians work 12 months out of the year according to the August-June academic calendar and with vacation time in the summer after a full year of employment. Occasional evening or weekend hours may be required. In general, though, hours are Monday-Friday 8 A.M.-4 P.M

AAP/EEO Statement: The Quad Preparatory School is based on an inclusive philosophy that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender, age, disability, marital status, creed, sexual orientation, familial status, citizenship, veteran or military status, or any other characteristic protected by law in its hiring procedures and policies.