Position: Casual Psychoeducational Consultant
Location: HDSB Schools
[Burlington, Halton Hills (Acton & Georgetown), Oakville, Milton]
Pay Rate: $80,113.00 - $106,216.00 per year as per the collective agreement
Salary step would be determined based on previous experience
Work Schedule: As needed/10 Months/year (September - June); up to 35 hours per
week during active assignment
The Halton District School Board (HDSB) is one of the fastest growing school districts in Canada. Together, our 10,000+ staff serve more than 66,000 students in more than 100 schools in the communities of Burlington, Georgetown, Halton Hills, Milton and Oakville. We are seeking a Psychoeducational Consultant to join our clinical services team.
Position Overview & Casual Pool Structure
The Halton District School Board (HDB) is seeking qualified candidates to join our
Casual Pool for Psychoeducational Consultants
Important Note Regarding Employment Expectations
This posting is intended to build a qualified casual pool to meet unexpected operational demands and provide short-term coverage for absent permanent employees.
- Pre-screened Status: Candidates admitted to this pool will have successfully completed the full selection process, including interviews, reference checks and a vulnerable sector background check.
- Nature of Assignments: Inclusion in the pool does not guarantee employment or specific hours of work. However, candidates in the pool may indicate their willingness and availability to be called upon for temporary, short-term assignments on short notice.
Benefits of working as a Psychoeducational Consultant with the Halton District School Board:
- Direct opportunity to impact student wellbeing and academic success
- Opportunity to work in a Board where collaboration, inclusion, and innovation are fostered
- Opportunity to actively engage and learn collaboratively with peers
Position Summary
Reporting to the Manager, Professional Services, our Psychoeducational Consultants offer a variety of services in support of students learning, social, emotional and behavioural development. Your role as a school-based Psychoeducational Consultant requires you to demonstrate excellent interpersonal, organizational and time management skills, creativity, flexibility, and commitment in order to improve the lives and educational outcomes for students.
Responsibilities Are Dependent On Assignment And May Include
- Engaging members of the school team with implementing evidence-based, evidence-informed interventions for students
- Knowledge of consulting, and primary, secondary and tertiary intervention programs and techniques. Brief psycho-educational or early therapeutic intervention (individual or group) for students experiencing to enhance wellness (e.g CBT skills, DBT skills motivational interviewing)
- Be adequately prepared and qualified to conduct psychoeducational assessments including cognitive, academic and social/emotional testing with knowledge of psychodiagnostic and neurodevelopmental disorders
- Providing consultations, for students from Kindergarten to Grade 12, in regular classes and special education class settings
- Working as a member of a school multidisciplinary team
Minimum Qualifications
- A Master’s degree in Psychology from an accredited University with an area relevant to the discipline of school psychology
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Proven ability to provide psychological services for children and adolescents
- Experience working as a collaborative member of a multidisciplinary team
- Familiarity with mental health, special needs, and programming
- Reliable transportation and willingness to work within all areas of Halton
Preferred Qualifications
- Registration or eligible for registration with the College of Psychologists and Behaviour Analysts of Ontario
- Experience working in a school board setting
- Experience working with students, including equity deserving youth, parents, educators and other school-based staff
- Proficiency in data management, analysis, report reporting and presenting results
- Experience supporting individuals from a variety of lived experiences (socio-economic, cultural, etc.,)
- Broad understanding of and an inclusive approach to relationship building with diverse stakeholders in the community and in schools
Appointments Are Conditional Upon
- Provision of an original copy of a criminal background check with vulnerable sector screening dated within 6 months
- Agreement to comply with the Board’s policies, procedures and code of conduct
Please submit your cover letter and resume to Apply To Education by DATE through the following Job Category: Management and Professionals - Job Code #
The Halton Region has been growing fast and growth is projected to remain strong for the foreseeable future. The region's population is anticipated to almost double in size by 2051, from a current population of to a projected population of by 2051.
We thank all applicants for their interest in opportunities with the Halton District School Board. Contact will be made with applicants whose experience and qualifications most closely match the requirements of the position. Communication with short-listed applicants will ordinarily be made through the email address provided on the applicants’ Apply To Education profile page or through the applicants’ HDSB email address. Please ensure that contact information provided at the time of application is current.
First consideration for posted vacancies will be given to qualified applicants from the employee group in which the vacancy occurs.
Applicant Self Identification Questions
As part of the recruitment and selection function, the HDSB will collect voluntary self identification data from applicants in accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code, HDSB’s Teacher Hiring Practices Administrative Procedure, HDSB’s Employment Equity Policy and Ontario’s Anti Racism Data Standards:
Personal information on this form is collected under the authority of the Anti-Racism Act, 2017, S.O. 2017, c. 15, in compliance with the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. M.56. In accordance with HDSB’s Employment Equity Policy, personal information collected on this form will aim to achieve an inclusive, diverse and representative workforce. It works to intentionally identify and remove barriers for equity-deserving communities at each stage of the hiring process. Encouraging diversity of the workforce in the school board is vital because the workforce should be reflective and representative of the community.
Requirements
Although hiring policies must adhere to the qualification requirements set out in applicable Regulations (eg. Regulation 298, “Operation of Schools – General”) and any applicable collective agreement provisions, the Board recognizes the importance of the following when developing its selection and evaluation criteria:
valuing applicants’ additional experience, lived experience, skills, backgrounds and perspectives; and
granting first consideration, where the skills, ability, and qualifications of the applicants are relatively equal, to applicants who self-identify as members of historically under-represented communities.
We encourage you to respond to our voluntary applicant self-identification questions. This data will inform our understanding of the diversity of our applicant pool as well as the progress of applicants throughout the hiring process. This data will inform our goals, strategies and actions and our progress towards creating and sustaining an inclusive and equitable workforce. Any information that you provide in response to these questions will be referred to during the hiring process for this position, and will be shared with the hiring manager and/or committee members responsible for the hiring process.
The section includes questions from Ontario’s Anti-Racism Data Standards (Standards, 2017). The Standards were established to help identify and monitor systemic racism and racial disparities within the public sector. The Standards establish consistent, effective practices for producing reliable information to support evidence-based decision-making and public accountability to help eliminate systemic racism and promote racial equity (adapted from Ontario’s Anti-Racism Data Standards, 2017).
Questions about this collection may be directed to Dixon Mohammed - Manager, Recruitment, Selection and Staffing at mohammedd@hdsb.ca
Accommodation
Upon request, we will provide reasonable accommodations for candidates who have temporary or permanent disability, or who otherwise require accommodations based on the protected grounds highlighted in the Ontario Human Rights Code in respect to the recruitment and selection process.
Wellness
The HDSB is committed to providing a respectful and healthy work environment.
