District Licensed Clinical Social Worker

JOB Under the direction of the Director of Student Support Services, the District Licensed Clinical Social Worker will provide social emotional and mental health services to students and their families within the school district. These services include student case management, crisis support, family counseling, individual and group counseling and participation on the District's Multi-Tier System of Supports (MTSS) Team and the Student Attendance Review Board (SARB). The District Licensed Clinical Social Worker will assist school administrators and counselors to identify and assist students, families and schools in overcoming barriers that may interfere with learning outcomes and school attendance concerns through assessment, counseling, consultation, coordination of school and community resources, and program development. The District Licensed Clinical Social Worker utilizes knowledge of human behavior and social, cultural, and community influences to help create a positive and supportive learning environment for students. The District Licensed Clinical Social Worker will also be responsible for overseeing the recruitment, supervision and development of university social work district interns in collaboration with partnering colleges/universities.
EXAMPLE OF DUTIES The outcome of the District Licensed Clinical Social Worker job performance will be as follows:

• Develop a Social Work program, including recruitment and supervision of interns, and program planning and evaluation.
• Effectively oversee a Social Work Intern program, including group supervision and weekly individual supervision of Interns.
• Plan and conduct programs to improve community health and counseling services and prevent at-risk behaviors.
• Improve school climate and culture, through the enhancement of outreach, student engagement strategies and parent education.
• Provide mental health assessment and services to students and their families.
• Case manage a group of students from schools across the district in need of long-term social-emotional counseling and support services.
• Provide family counseling to students and family members when needed.
• Coordinate delivery of services with community agencies, acting as both advocate and liaison.
• Collect and assess information about students through interviews, observation, and review of documents.
• Act as student advocate in order to coordinate required services or to resolve emergency problems in crisis situations.
• Develop and implement treatment plans based on clinical experience and knowledge.
• Collaborate with other staff members to perform clinical assessments and develop treatment plans.
• Conduct classroom observations to provide consultation and intervention strategies to assist teachers in addressing the behavioral, academic and/or social emotional needs of students.
• Conduct house visits when needed to meet with parents and families of students receiving mental health district services.
• Provide coaching and support to counselors and administrators to support students who demonstrate behavioral, social, and/or emotional difficulties.
• Assist parents in better understanding the psychosocial needs of their child by providing in-service trainings and workshops across school sites.
• Provide staff development in the areas of mental health, attendance, student engagement strategies, child abuse and neglect, behavioral management in the classroom, coping with grief and loss, and other areas as needed.
• Serve as district liaison in cases involving the Department of Children and Family Social Services.
• Assist school counselors and administrators in conducting student threat assessments.
• Assist school counselors and administrators with making Psychiatric Emergency Team (PET) recommendations and calls.
• Assist counselors in facilitating student social emotional counseling support groups when needed.
• Participates on School District Positive Behavioral Intervention and Supports (PBIS) Team.
• Prepare records, summaries, and reports in compliance with the standards and requirements of the district. Collaborate with the Student Support Services Department to meet the needs of foster and homeless youth; students with attendance concerns and other at-risk student sub groups.
• Serves on monthly district Student Attendance Review Board (SARB) meetings to problem-solve student chronic absenteeism.
• Supervise and support social work and/or counseling interns to meet the social /emotional needs of students at the school site.
• Prepare and maintain accurate records and filing systems.
• Communicate clearly through all mediums.
• Maintain confidentiality of student records and information.
• Work with public and outside agencies.
• Prepare reports, presentations, materials and present in a group setting.
• Work independently under general supervision.
• Supervise assigned classified staff.
• Assist with other district level projects overseen by the Student Support Services Department and/or the larger Educational Services Division.

SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION 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 the essential functions.

• Ability to understand speech at normal levels in person or on the telephone; ability to communicate so others will be able to clearly understand a normal conversation in person or on the telephone; ability to operate audiovisual equipment, computer, typewriter, copy machine and other office and classroom equipment with dexterity.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, bend, turn, talk and hear, and taste and smell. The employee frequently is required to use hands to write, finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls.
• Ability to occasionally lift/carry supplies and printed material weighing up to 25 pounds. The employee must occasionally lift arms above shoulders to point, reach, touch, pull or lift. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance, and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Ability to see for purposes of observing students and reading instructional materials, tests, student records, and other printed matter. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.