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.
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