Child Psychologist (Part Time)

Responsibilities

Promote Positive Behavior and Mental Health:

• To work with one particular student group, such as school aged children with learning deficiency
• To assessing and diagnose children's needs, abilities or behaviour using a variety of methods, including psychometric test, interviews and direct observation of behaviour
• To working as part of a multidisciplinary team alongside doctors, nurses, social workers, education professionals, health visitors, psychiatrists, pediatricians and occupational therapists
• To devising and monitoring appropriate treatment / intervention programmes, including therapy, counselling or advice, in collaboration with colleagues
• To developing and evaluating service provision for children, parents, CDC teacher and principal
• To providing consultation to other professions, encouraging a psychological approach in their work
• To provide counselling and supporting carers
• Willingness to listen to concerns about academic, emotional or social problems from the children and stakeholders within UCSI CDC
• To support school aged children to process their problems and plan goals and action by promote positive behaviors
• To meet with parents / guardians and teachers to discuss learning, behavioral, familial and social problems
• To counsel parents on topics like substance abuse and communication
• To study and implement behavioral management techniques
• To research and implement learning programs
• To evaluate and advise school disciplinary practices for troubled school aged children
• Must be well trained to use a variety of approaches / techniques / tools & equipment / methodologies to support school aged children and parents. The areas of scope as below:
  • Student and classroom data collection, analysis and interpretation
  • Annual children performance progress monitoring and assessment
  • School-wide practices to promote learning
  • Resilience and risk factors which associated within
  • Consultation and collaboration with the stakeholders
  • Academic/learning interventions
  • Mental health interventions
  • Behavioral interventions
  • Instructional support
  • Prevention and intervention services
  • Special education services
  • Crisis preparedness, response, and recovery
  • Family-school-community collaboration
  • Diversity in development and learning
  • Research and program evaluation
  • Professional ethics, school law, and systems (if any / upon request by management)

Create Safe, Positive School Climates:

• Prevent bullying and other forms of violence
• Support social-emotional learning
• Assess school climate and improve school connectedness
• Implement and promote positive discipline and restorative justice
• Implement school-wide positive behavioral supports
• Identify at risk students and school vulnerabilities
• Provide crisis prevention and intervention services

Strengthen Family-School Partnerships:

• Help families understand their child's learning and mental health needs
• Assist in navigating special education processes
• Connect families with community service providers when necessary
• Help effectively engage families with teachers and other school staff
• Enhance staff understanding and responsiveness to diverse cultures and backgrounds
• Help students transition between school and community learning environments, such as residential treatment or juvenile justice programs

Improve School-Wide Assessment and Accountability Monitor individual student progress in academics and behavior:

• Generate and interpret useful student and school outcome data
• Collect and analyze data on risk and protective factors related to student outcomes
• Support the principals in plan services at the district, building, classroom, and individual levels

Knowledge / Skills Required (Mental Demands / Physical Demands / Environmental Factors):

• Empathy and a person-centred approach to children and parents
• The ability to recognise your own limitations and respond to difficult situations
• The ability to apply the knowledge of academic psychology and research to clinical problems
• The capacity to be critical and analytical and to work in a self-motivated, independent way
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills in order to deal with people in distress
• The ability to collaborate with colleagues from other disciplines
• The determination to succeed
• A strong understanding of the profession and the role of a clinical psychologist, and an awareness of current Malaysia pre school children mental health issues
• Excellent understanding of the principles of child development and preschool educational methods
• React to change productively and handle other tasks as assigned
• Ability to maintain emotional control under stress
• Ability to evaluate in teaching and learning effectiveness
• Ability to interpret procedures and data
• Strong public relations and interpersonal skills
• Excellent interpersonal relations, oral and written communication skills
• Use excellent written oral English skills when communicating with students, parents, and teachers
• Occasionally prolonged and irregular hours
• Familiarity with safety and sanitation guidelines for classrooms
• Excellent communication and instructional skills
• Ability to act as mediator between children, parents and teachers

Others:

• Identify and attending suitable self development training
• Complete in a timely fashion all records and reports as requested by the Top Management members
• Perform all other duties relating to the above may be assigned to you by your immediate supervisor from time to time