School Social Worker 2024-25 - MTSS/Social Emotional Learning
Primary Function
The School Social Worker works cooperatively with school personnel, parents, student and community agencies, helping to facilitate student educational and interpersonal success.
Supervised By
Coordinator of the Office of Behavioral Learning (or assigned designee)
Essential Functions
- Represents school services at agency meetings and in individual consultation with community providers so that student service needs are coordinated.
- Provides support and advocacy to/for students and families in multiple school settings.
- Fosters relationships with community agencies to partner/collaborate regarding the needs of students and families.
- Act as a liaison between students/families and school/community to coordinate care.
- Gathers information regarding student histories and social/emotional/behavioral needs for consultation with school staff.
- Reviews student behavior with the family and supports schools’ behavior management systems.
- Assists families with community referrals, such as mental health, developmental disability, and other family resources.
- Based on individual areas of expertise, provides support for unique service needs, such as monolingual Spanish-speaking families and students, threat assessment, sexualized behaviors, crisis behaviors, and institutional transition.
- Provides or coordinates in-services to school personnel and parents on relevant topics, when requested.
Additional Functions
Performs other duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications
- Master of Social Work
- Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Clinical Social Work Associate (CSWA), Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) or Teacher Standards and Practices Commission (TSPC) School Social Work License, or willing to pursue within 6 months
- Experience with school social work or previous work experience in child and family-related service fields
- Demonstrated ability to perform school social work tasks including, but not limited to, assessments, interventions, consultation, and referrals as dictated by the needs of students and families
Work Environment
Subject to inside and outside environmental conditions with routine exposure to the weather including seasonal heat and cold. Subject to frequent loud noises in the environment.
Frequent local travel between schools and community agencies.
Physical Requirements
Hearing and speaking to exchange information; seeing to perform assigned duties; sitting, standing and walking for extended periods of time; dexterity of hands and fingers to operate equipment; kneeling, bending at the waist, and reaching overhead, above the shoulders and horizontally, to retrieve and store files and materials, and lifting light objects.
Strength: Sedentary/medium. Exert force to 10-25 pounds. frequently, and up to 10 pounds constantly or a negligible amount of force frequently to lift, carry, push, pull or move objects.
Intermittent bending, twisting, squatting kneeling, crawling, climbing stairs, reaching. On feet throughout the day. Work effectively in an environment which can be both physically and emotionally fatiguing.
Work with students who may exhibit aggressive assaultive behavior, as required of specific job assignment.
Type: Licensed
FTE: 1.0
Status: Temporary, August 27, 2024 - June 13, 2025
Salary is prorated based on FTE: $50,011 – $98,436
Application Procedure: Apply online