Duties
Position Type:
Bilingual Special Education/Bilingual Social Worker
- Date Posted:
11/1/2024
- Location:
District Wide
- Date Available:
08/06/2025
- Closing Date:
04/30/2025
NOTE: This posting has been opened for application intake for anyone interested in a position with School District U-46 for the 2025/2026 school year. We anticipate the review of applications to begin sometime near the end of January. If you are interested in a role for the current 2024/2025 school year, we encourage you to check out our open vacancies.
| Position / Title: Social Worker |
| Bargaining Unit: ETA |
Department/Location: Specialized Student Services |
| Work Days: 184 |
Reports To: SSS/Building Principal |
| JD Revision Date: 03-08-2024 |
Supervises: N/A |
Function / Position Summary
To provide individual and group social-emotional support to students and families.
Job Duties / Responsibilities
- Provide direct social/emotional support to students; prioritizing special education as mandated by IEPs.
- Assist and provide support to students struggling with social-emotional and behavioral concerns through the MTSS framework.
- Participate in Service Team meetings to represent the social-emotional aspect of the educational setting.
- Assist in the development of behavioral intervention strategies as well as formalized Functional Behavior Assessments and Behavior Intervention Plans.
- Prepare Social Developmental Studies to address the social-emotional status of students. During the case study or re-evaluation process.
- Provide interventions for students in crisis.
- Data collection and recordkeeping to monitor social-emotional wellbeing of students.
- Address parent concerns and provide community resources as necessary.
- Advocate for students with school staff and administration.
- Mobilize school and community resources to support the student in the educational setting.
- Consult with school staff to address social-emotional concerns of students.
- Assist teachers with classroom interventions.
- Contact with community resources.
- Provide professional training and community education opportunities.
- Other duties as assigned.
Education
- Master’s Degree in Social Work. (Required)
- Professional Educator License (PEL) with a School Social Work endorsement. (Required)
- Bilingual - Spanish/English (written/verbal). (Preferred)
Experience / Knowledge
- Knowledge of School Social Work policies and procedures.
- Leadership skills in working with individuals and groups (i.e. initiating individual or group discussion, listening, clarifying, and facilitating interactions and sharing ideas).
- Skills in socio-environmental analysis and diagnosis of students with social / emotional concerns.
- Knowledge of current state laws and regulations regarding proficiency standards.
- Previous School Social Work experience (Preferred).
Terms of Employment
- Nine-month position (184 work days).
- Salary and benefits as established by the Board of Education and The Elgin Agreement