National Director of School Psychology

National Director of School Psychology Clinical Excellence and Educational Diagnostics School Psychology | All National Markets | Reports to the Chief Clinical Officer School / District Thrive Therapies Group — National Location All National Markets Open Positions 1 FTE Employment Type W-2 Salaried | Performance Bonus Eligible Start Date Open Compensation W-2 salaried position; $98,000 - $120,000; plus performance bonus eligibility; full benefits package including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) with employer match Licensure Required Full, unrestricted school psychologist licensure or certification; active licensure in Tennessee or relevant state of practice WHY THRIVE THERAPIES Thrive Therapies Group is a tech-enabled pediatric healthcare company delivering specialized clinical care to children with disabilities and those facing barriers to access. We deliver our care where it changes outcomes fastest — inside the schools and districts where children spend their days — partnering directly with district leaders to integrate evidence-based services into the school day. Every clinician under our banner is part of a unified clinical model, accountable to a single national standard of care, working from a shared platform built specifically for the children we serve. At the center of our model is Thrive Clinical, our purpose-built EHR designed from the ground up for pediatric clinical care in school settings. Thrive Clinical is not a generic documentation platform retrofitted for schools. It was built to track student progress, measure mastery gains, capture rich clinical data, and give providers and leaders real-time insight into whether kids are actually getting better. It is the operational backbone of everything we do, and it gets smarter as the clinicians and leaders using it push it forward. We are growing rapidly because the need is staggering and largely unmet. Across the country, children with IEPs are waiting months for evaluations, going without required services, and falling further behind because districts cannot find or sustain the clinical talent to support them. Existing options are not meeting the depth or breadth of what children, families, and schools actually need. We are building the alternative: a clinically excellent, technology-enabled care model designed to scale without compromising the quality of care any individual child receives. The National Director of School Psychology Clinical Excellence is the architect of that standard. THE ROLE This is not a supervisory role in the traditional sense. The National Director of School Psychology Clinical Excellence is a senior leadership position responsible for defining, building, and driving Thrive's national standard of practice across school psychology and educational diagnostics. You are not managing a single region. You are setting the clinical bar that every Thrive school psychologist is measured against, in every school, in every state, across every market we operate or will operate. Reporting to the Chief Clinical Officer, you will lead and develop the layer of Clinical Supervisors who deliver high-touch supervision to pre-licensed school psychologists and tiered providers across our regional markets. They are the coaches on the ground. You are the one who decides what they are coaching toward. You build the playbook. You establish the benchmarks. You define what excellent diagnostic practice looks like at Thrive nationally, and you make sure it holds consistently across a footprint that spans the country and is growing by the month. Because we own our clinical platform, you will also serve as a primary clinical voice in the evolution of Thrive Clinical, partnering closely with product and engineering to shape how the platform measures, supports, and accelerates excellent diagnostic practice. This is not a courtesy seat at the table. You will own clinical requirements for defined areas of the product roadmap. This role requires approximately 50% travel across Thrive's national markets, concentrated around summer intensives, site launches, supervisor onboarding, and targeted in-person work with partner districts. The work happens in schools, in districts, and alongside the teams doing evaluations on the ground every day. WHO YOU ARE A fully licensed school psychologist with deep credibility in psychoeducational assessment, eligibility determination, and special education law, who is ready to take that expertise national A clinical leader who has already managed clinicians across multiple sites or multiple states, and who is ready to take a national footprint as the next logical scope A standard-setter who thinks in systems: you see a gap in diagnostic practice and your first instinct is to build the protocol, the supervision framework, or the dashboard that closes it permanently — and you can show us the artifacts of work you have already done at this scope A leader of leaders, comfortable managing a layer of Clinical Supervisors rather than reviewing every evaluation yourself, and confident holding that layer accountable to a national bar Data-fluent and outcomes-oriented: you measure success in accurate identifications, appropriate placements, compliance rates, supervisor performance, district NPS, and clinician retention — not in evaluation hours logged or referrals processed Fluent in IDEA Part B, state SPED variation across multiple jurisdictions, Medicaid billing for school-based services, and the regulatory texture of running diagnostic operations across multiple states Comfortable holding clinical excellence and operational accountability in the same hand, across multiple states, without dropping either Deeply invested in the evolution of Thrive Clinical as a purpose-built tool for kids in schools: you are not just a user of the platform, you are a driver of what it becomes, bringing the diagnostic insight that makes it more powerful over time An operator with an entrepreneurial mindset who reads a growing national footprint as an invitation to build something lasting, not as a reason to wait for more certainty Hungry to learn, including how AI, data tooling, and a purpose-built EHR can make your national team measurably more effective, consistent, and focused on what matters most: every child getting the right identification and the right support Driven by mission: you measure success in accurate identifications, appropriate placements, mastery gains, and students who finally get the support that was always theirs to have WHAT YOU’LL OWN Set and Own the National Diagnostic Standard Define Thrive's national framework for psychoeducational assessment and eligibility determination, setting the standard for how school psychologists across every market select instruments, conduct evaluations, and document findings Build and maintain the diagnostic frameworks, supervision protocols, and practice standards that Clinical Supervisors implement with their supervisee populations across all regions Ensure that what excellent diagnostic practice looks like at Thrive is documented, measurable, and consistently applied regardless of geography, district, or state Serve as the final clinical authority on diagnostic questions, eligibility interpretation, and assessment protocol disputes across the Thrive network Ensure that Thrive's diagnostic standards account for the full range of student backgrounds, including English language learners, students with complex or co-occurring profiles, and students from diverse cultural and linguistic communities Lead and Develop Clinical Supervisors Nationally Serve as the direct clinical authority above Clinical Supervisors, who deliver high-touch supervision to pre-licensed school psychologists and performance-flagged providers across assigned national markets Build the supervision model that scales from one Cli