What are the responsibilities and job description for the Licensed Social Worker position at Carlsbad Municipal Schools?
Position Function Summary
Education and Experience
- Child Find Coordinator/Early Childhood AND/OR
- Elementary and secondary cases and transition coordinator
- 1. Assess the social emotional needs of students receiving special education services, develop a service plan to provide social and/or emotional interventions to students in need, and document the services that are provided.
- Determine the need for social work services based on the data collected during a review of existing documentation, observation, and/or social emotional assessment.
- Provide direct group and/or individual counseling services to students who are referred and who qualify for social work services.
- Participate in the development of the student’s Individualized Education Plan (IEP).
- Participate in the comprehensive evaluation, review, and re-evaluation process.
- Serve as a Functional Behavioral Assessments (FBA) and Behavior Intervention Plan (BIP) team member for students receiving special education services.
- Participate in manifestation determination meetings.
- Maintain accurate and complete records in the student information system and Medicaid School Based Services billing software.
- Develop realistic and attainable social emotional goals and measurable objectives for special education students who are referred and qualify for social work services.
- Monitor student progress towards social emotional goals and adjust intervention style accordingly.
- Support students through crises and work with families to determine the next level of support.
- Complete threat assessment student interviews and serve as a member of the threat assessment team.
- Connect students and their families to resources that will support the student’s social, emotional, and academic growth in the school setting.
- Establish and maintain positive working relationships with community agencies and service providers.
- Utilize appropriate referral procedures for community services.
- Support students with program transitions and ensure continuity of special education support services in the community (referrals to CARC and DVR upon graduation, transition IEP meetings to other schools, etc.).
- Collaborates and consults with school and community service providers regarding the needs of the student.
- Serve as an advocate for students receiving special education services.
- Advocate for the students’ social and emotional needs in the school setting.
- Provides consultation and support to school personnel in dealing with problematic behavior.
- Collaborates with students, administrators, teachers, parents, agencies, and paraprofessionals in planning to meet the needs of individual students.
- Protect student confidentiality in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations.
- Identify barriers to successful social, academic, and extracurricular functioning in the school setting.
- Strive to reduce the negative effects of social, economic, and academic pressures faced by students receiving special education services.
- Promote home/school partnerships by providing support to parents and family members of students receiving social work services.
- Maintain a high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information regarding students, parents, and staff.
Education and Experience
- Maintain accurate and complete documentation of services provided in the Student Information System and in accordance with Medicaid School Based Services standards, when applicable.
- Hold a department-issued license for at least one of the following:
- Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW)
- Licensed Bachelor Social Worker (LBSW)
- Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW)
- Have or eligible for a New Mexico PED School Social Work license.
- Must be able to pass employment verification.
- Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Superintendent may find appropriate and acceptable.