EC2 has a multi-disciplinary team, the psychologist serves as a crucial coordinator and integrator within a multidisciplinary approach, ensuring that children with additional needs receive the care and education they need.
The psychologist collaborates closely with immediate colleagues and stakeholders. His/her responsibility is to facilitate communication, provide psychological expertise, and help bridge any gaps between different service providers. Additionally, he/she acts as a sparring partner, offering guidance, support, and expertise to colleagues and external professionals. By promoting shared understanding and coordinated efforts, he/she ensures that the child’s needs are met in a holistic and integrated way.
1. Core tasks
-Perform psycho-educational diagnostics.
-Assess psychological needs and strengths of students in the school environment.
-Provide therapy services to students.
-Counsel students with socio-emotional or specific behavior challenges.
-Contribute to the individual plans of students (guidance plan, IEP, IDP).
-Observe interaction between teacher/assistant and student and provide strategies.
-Support contact between schools, parents and stakeholders.
2. Planning tasks
-Assesses the individual needs of children and students in the local schools in the field of behavior, well-being, cognitive ability and development.
-Assessments for transition K2 – Gr 1 and Gr 6 – SCS.
-Assist in navigating special education processes (ISE program).
3. Guidance tasks
-Assess school climate and improve school connectedness
-Advise and give guidance to teachers based on the psycho-educational needs of the students.
-Provide assistance to teachers in the design and implementation of appropriate interventions and accommodation for students.
-Presents information, demonstrates and teaches behavior modification skills to teachers and teacher assistants.
-Gives guidance to children with special behavior or developmental needs in the classroom and in the ISE classroom.
-Connect families with community service providers when necessary.
4. Organization tasks
-Evaluate and/or translate research into practice and understand research design and statistics in sufficient depth to plan and conduct investigations and program evaluations for improvement of services.
-Participate in building or program activities and meetings as appropriate.
-Maintain consistent and accurate documentation for student files.
-Create protocols and formats for clear and precise documentation.
-Use the vision of EC2 as a guiding compass, directing the team’s efforts toward a common goal and ensuring that all actions and decisions align with the overarching values and mission.
-Lead and develop Social Emotional Learning programs (SEL)
5. Knowledge and experience
-Able to work in a multidisciplinary team.
-Maintains regular contact with teachers, parents, and colleagues.
-Creates a safe and positive learning environment for children.
-Gives constructive feedback.
-Able to monitor and report on progress verbally and in writing.
-Makes observations and uses creative ways to teach new skills to teachers.
-Maintains professional ethics and systems.
6. Requirements
-Relevant master’s degree in psychology, special pedagogy or behavior sciences. (or Orthopedagogiek)
-Ample work experience with children with behavior and developmental challenges.
-Able and qualified to give individual counseling/therapy.
-Has knowledge of trauma sensitive therapy and/ or coaching and teaching
-Has knowledge of the current student care system on Saba or will comply with it shortly.
-Able and qualified to perform psycho-educational diagnostics.
-Experienced in positive psychology / pedagogy.
Details
• Full-time position (40 hours/week) (part time can be discussed)
• Salary scale OOP BES (Onderwijs Ondersteunend Personeel BES): Depending on experience, Scale 10 or 11
• A Certificate of Good Conduct (VOG) with an educational profile and references will be required
• The initial contract is for one year, with a possibility of extension based on a positive review and availability of funding.
• Applications are open until May 1st 2026
In return, you’ll join a caring and committed team that puts children at the heart of everything we do. You’ll also have the unique privilege of working in one of the most inspiring settings imaginable — a beautiful island full of life and learning. Interested?
Send your motivation letter and CV (including references) to the director of EC2 Ms. Merlijn Verstraeten