Position:                     Social Worker

Supervisor:                Principal/Supervisor of Social Workers

General Job Description:  Provide educationally related social work services for students  Work with at-risk students, families, teachers, administration to remove barriers to learining.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Complete routine reports and tasks promptly and efficiently. Enforces confidentiality with use of release of information and other supportive documentation.
• Participates in student planning and program development based on SAT(Works with school level Student Assistance Teams)
• Implements individual student programs based on SAT
• Demonstrates a willingness to examine and implement change as appropriate
• Works productively with colleagues, parents, and students
• Demonstrates accurate knowledge of adverse childhood events and trauma informed care as it relates to student educational achievement.
• Demonstrates appropriate assessment techniques and procedures
• Demonstrates a professional demeanor as defined by the code of ethics of the education professional
• Participation in family nights

Additional Duties and Responsibilities:

• Conduct an individualized social-emotional-adaptive assessment of the student, the student’s family and the educational and social communities.
• Research, design, and implement building wide behavioral intervention strategies
• Employ appropriate methods of practice that enables students and their families to function adequately within their educational and community settings.
• Utilize on-going appropriate methods to evaluate his/her services
• Prepare social or developmental histories for students
• Provide group and individual counseling with students and their families
• Work with those problems in student living situations (home, community and school) that affect their adjustment in school
• Mobilize school and community resources to enable students to receive benefit
• Identify, inform, and update school personnel and parents of available resources. Make referrals to appropriate agencies and follow up with those agencies
• Attend meetings as needed to discuss student need, evaluation data and to plan for goals and objectives, if appropriate
• Obtain training in behavioral interventions, prevention curricula, and practices.
• Maintain necessary and appropriate licensure
• Other duties as deemed necessary by supervisor

Qualifications:   Must qualify for PED Social Worker license, effective verbal and written communication skills,strong leadership skills, and the ability to work effectively with parents, students and school personnel.  Bilingual a plus.

Physical Requirements: Sitting, standing, lifting and carrying (up to 50 pounds), reaching, squatting, kneeling, prolonged typing, physical ability to type on a keyboard terminal, and moving light furniture may be required.

Equipment/Technology Handled: Must know how to properly operate or be willing to learn to operate all multimedia equipment including current technology. 

Work Environment: Must be able to work within various degrees of noise, temperature, and air quality.  Interruptions of work are routine.  Flexibility and patience are required.  Must be self-motivated and able to complete job assignment without direct supervision.  Flexible work hours are required including nights.

Terms of Employment: Salary and work calendar established yearly by the district.