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We are looking for an outstanding experienced School Social Worker to join our school. As a member of the Ingenuity Prep Student & Family Support Team, the School Social Worker will support students and families, empower teachers, and serve as a critical partner in ensuring that students have the services they need to be successful both academically and socially/emotionally.

WHAT WE’RE ABOUT

• Mission: We’re closing the opportunity gap. Students and families in Southeast D.C. have too few options for high-quality elementary, middle, and high schools. Ingenuity Prep aspires to right this systemic injustice providing an exemplary educational option for Southeast D.C.’s students and families.
• Model: We pair high expectations with high support. Too often, our students are underestimated. At Ingenuity Prep, an innovative teacher development model, paired with best-in-class training from strong instructional leaders, allows us to grow great teachers who, ultimately, lead high-expectation and high-support classrooms.
• Results: Our students are defying expectations. Ingenuity Prep’s students outperform their neighborhood peers on rigorous, national, college-track assessments. Already out-performing many of their more privileged peers around the city, in the coming years, Ingenuity Prep’s students will provide an expectation-defying and achievement-gap-closing proof point — showing what our kids are capable of when we provide the right opportunities, expectations, and support.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

The School Social Worker will:

• Provide effective individual and group services to students - including special education services - that emphasize improved academic and social-emotional outcomes.
• Identify students in need of counseling and social services.
• Conduct FBAs and Social History reports; develop, monitor, review and modify behavior intervention plans
• Support identification of students in need of counseling and social services.
• In collaboration with the school’s instructional leadership, empower teachers and staff by providing them with behavioral strategy support, professional development, and supporting resources; provide support for coordinating special education services.
• Provide consultation to the Director of Student Support on Ingenuity Prep’s social and emotional learning curriculum; provide consultation on the school’s character development program.
• Work to ensure that Ingenuity Prep’s attendance monitoring and interventions are highly effective.
• Maintain accurate documentation of services provided.
• Possess a thorough understanding of and abide by the profession’s Code of Ethics.

WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR

Ingenuity Prep might be the right fit for you if:

• You believe deeply in Ingenuity Prep’s mission, and in our ability to achieve ambitious goals.
• You have at least two years of experience serving as a social worker, ideally in a school setting.
• You are highly skilled in engaging and supporting young children.
• You are dedicated to building relationships with our students’ families, and engaging them as meaningful partners in our work with students.
• You are a systematic thinker who has successfully built processes and systems that have helped instructional leaders and teachers be more efficient and effective in their work.
• You believe effective schools are full of joy and rigor.
• You are always looking to grow your own expertise and practice, and seek out resources and best practices from others.
• You have a Bachelor’s degree, as well as an MSW or DSW. 

Salary: $65,000-70,000/year

MORE ABOUT US

Ingenuity Prep offers among the strongest compensation and benefits packages of any public charter school in Washington, D.C. Our compensation and benefits package includes:

• Highly competitive compensation.
• 100% of medical and dental premiums for employees paid for by Ingenuity Prep, along with 100% of dependent premiums.
• 100% of employee’s short­ and long-term disability and life insurance plans paid for by Ingenuity Prep.
• A minimum of two weeks maternity/paternity leave at 100% pay for all staff -- regardless of gender. Over time, that increases to as much as six weeks -- all at 100% pay.
• A 100% match -- up to 3% -- on your 401K retirement plan.
• A 100% Ingenuity Prep-paid cell phone plan. You can even bring your current number into our plan.
• MacBook Air computer for professional and personal use.

Ingenuity Prep does not make hiring decisions on the basis of race, color, creed, ethnicity, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, socio-economic background, age, disability, veteran status, religion, political affiliation or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law.