District Social Worker (Temporary Grant Funded)

Job Title:  District Social Worker ( Temporary Grant Funded)

Supervisor:  Director of Special Programs

FLSA: Exempt

Contract Days:  200 days

Job Summary:

To provide access to all available community health and human support services for parents and their children. To provide services that strengthen home, school, and community partnerships. Under general supervision, address barriers to learning and achievement while ensuring that the district vision, mission, and goals are achieved. 

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in social work from an accredited college or university
• Current Social Work license is required.
• Demonstrated aptitude for the work to be performed
• Such alternatives to the above qualifications as District Administration may find appropriate and acceptable  

Essential Duties:

• Performs casework service with parents as an integral part of the task of helping students, increasing parental awareness and understanding regarding constructive participation in resolving the issues of the child and their knowledge and use of appropriate resources available
• Consults and collaborates with other school personnel in gathering and exchanging information on cases and in establishing and planning for respective roles in the modification of the student's behavior 
• Serves as liaison between home and school when considerable follow-up is necessary, as in welfare cases, foster home placements, and meeting the needs of disadvantaged students
• Keeps sufficient records of cases for use by school staff members and outside agencies when appropriate 
• Provides counseling and supportive services designed to enhance the behavioral, social, and emotional functioning of students in a school setting
• Completes home visits, conducts individual, group and family counseling sessions and attends IEP and other educational team meetings as needed
• Provides advanced assessment, intervention and case management for students that will increase school success and reduce discipline referrals, out-of-school suspensions, administrative hearings, and more restrictive placements
• Effectively and appropriately assesses and addresses the needs, characteristics, and interactions of students, families, LEA personnel, and community
• Develops long-term and short-term intervention plans consistent with curriculum, student needs, strengths, diversity, life experiences, and social/emotional factors
• Maintains current knowledge of federal and state laws and regulations and abides by said laws and regulations with emphasis on persons with disabilities, child welfare, mental health, confidentiality, and student and parent rights
• Performs other related duties as required

Physical Requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. Must exhibit manual dexterity to enter data into a computer; to see and read a computer screen and printed material with or without vision aids; hear and understand speech at normal workplace levels, outdoors and on the telephone; speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly in normal workplaces, outdoors and on the telephone; physical agility to lift up to 25 pounds.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Duties are normally performed in a school/classroom environment. Duties may be conducted in work-related community settings and/or occasionally performed on study trips away from the school.

Salary Scale: Classified Scale 18:  200 (grant funded position) https://5il.co/1wzny

Updated 8/2024