Trauma Informed School Social Worker

Position Title: Trauma-Informed School Social Worker

Term of Employment: 

Full-Time: 10 months

Reports To: Executive Director of Student Services

Pay Information: State Salary Scale

General Responsibilities

Responsible for establishing comprehensive school-based mental health services at separate school sites and integrated throughout the school day within a blended therapeutic and educational environment.  Services include individual, group, and family therapy; community meetings, school-wide behavior management systems, therapeutic recreation, and skills-building activities.  Adjunct services include case management, crisis management, consultation, and collaboration with IEP team members.  Services provided by qualified mental health clinicians and rehabilitation specialists.

Essential Job Functions

• Develop an intake and referral process to services that expands the safety net and assures that no student falls through the cracks.
• Coordinate training for all school personnel, focusing on the intake and referral process to mental health specialists.
• Assist schools in adopting the most successful prevention and intervention strategies that address student needs.
• Provide staff development on mental health and co-occurring disorders among student populations.
• Provide training to students, parents, and partners as requested and needed.
• Provide Tier 2 and 3 students with individualized, intensive counseling services within the school setting.
• Provide clinical psychotherapy services to students with trauma-related symptoms.
• Provide Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) school-based treatment.
• Provide training to teachers to facilitate the identification of student needs for intensive counseling services.
• Coordinate prevention activities with staff and partners for student engagement and empowerment.
• Provide technical support to schools and communities on mental health services, programming, and concerns.
• Perform other duties as requested.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Comprehensive knowledge of school administration principles, practices, and procedures.
• Comprehensive knowledge of student service principles and practices and administrative hearing techniques.
• Ability to develop and present ideas effectively both orally and in written form.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with school officials, school administrators, parents, associates, and the general public
• Ability to work independently and problem-solve challenging situations
• Effective oral and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work well with people.

Minimum Training and Experience

• Master’s Degree in Social Work or related mental health field.
• Licensed with two or more years of experience working with youth.  Licensed school social worker preferred.
• State certification.

Minimum Qualifications or Standards Required to Perform Essential Job Functions

? Physical Requirements: The work regularly requires standing and walking around the

   classroom and school. It requires the ability to communicate effectively using speech, vision

   , and hearing. The work requires the use of hands for simple grasping and fine manipulations.

   The work often requires bending, squatting, reaching, with the ability to lift, carry, push, or pull

   light weights and rarely, the lifting of weights above 30 pounds. The work occasionally

   handles/works with biohazards and/or risks for potential job-related injury, such as those found

   in a laboratory or shop environment. The work requires activities occasionally involving driving

   automotive equipment.

? Data Conception: Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable,

   functional, structural or composite characteristics (whether similar or divergent from obvious

   standards) of data, people or things.

? Interpersonal Communication: Requires the ability to speak and/or signal people to convey

  or exchange information. Includes receiving instructions, assignments, or directions to

  subordinates or assistants.

? Language Ability: Requires the ability to read a variety of correspondence, reports, forms,

   articles, proposals, contracts, etc. Requires the ability to prepare correspondence, reports,

   forms, evaluations, contracts, policies, handbooks, budgets, etc., using prescribed formats and

   conforming to all rules of punctuation, grammar, diction, and style. Requires the ability to speak

   before groups of people with poise, voice control, and confidence.

? Intelligence: Requires the ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define

   problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions; to interpret an extensive

   variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagrammatic form; and to deal with several

   abstract and concrete variables.

? Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures,

   to give oral and written instructions. Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently in a

   variety of technical or professional languages, including educational and legal terminology.

? Numerical Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize mathematical formulas; to add and subtract;

   multiply and divide; utilize decimals and percentages; and apply the principles of descriptive

   statistics, statistical inference, and statistical theory.

? Form/Spatial Aptitude: Requires the ability to inspect items for proper length, width, and

   shape.

? Motor Coordination: Requires the ability to coordinate hands and eyes rapidly and accurately

   in using office equipment.

? Manual Dexterity: Requires the ability to handle a variety of items such as office equipment

   and hand tools. Must have minimal levels of eye/hand/foot coordination.

? Interpersonal Temperament: Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and

   receiving instructions. Must be adaptable to performing under stress and when confronted with

   emergency situations.

? Physical Communication: Requires the ability to talk and hear: (Talking: expressing or

   exchanging ideas by means of spoken words. Hearing: perceiving the nature of sounds by ear.)

   Must be able to communicate via telephone.

Disclaimer

The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work

performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a

comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees for this

job.