Duties
Full-time social worker to help with compliance and IEP and social work groups in the building.
- Actively identifying and addressing systemic barriers to learning.
- Serving as change agents to bring stakeholders together in collaborative efforts to create an environment that is conducive to effective problem-solving and learning.
- Conducting needs assessments and progress monitoring.
- Developing, implementing, and evaluating programs that address educational and behavioral concerns.
- Training staff in the foundations, evidence-based instructional strategies, implementation, and evaluation of RTI practices.
- Assisting administrators and staff to understand the familial, cultural and community components of students' responses to instruction, learning and academic success.
- Evaluating student progress specific to behavioral, emotional, and mental health concerns and the effects on academic progress.
- Continuing the traditional school social work role of serving as the liaison to families, the community and other stakeholders to ensure open communication and continuing dialogue.
- Facilitating and coordinating the delivery of educational and mental health services with and by community agencies and service providers.
- Being informed liaisons to parents, assisting them to effectively participate in their child's education and to strengthen their parenting skills.
- Helping parents to understand their child's developmental and educational needs and expand their knowledge base of RTI practices and strategies.
- Consulting with all stakeholders to ensure that the intervention plan devised is appropriate to the needs of the targeted student or students.
- Ensure that the team process and decisions are implemented in accord with the goals and desired outcome of the team and the evidence-based strategies chosen.
- Assisting team members to understand mental health and behavioral concerns of students identified as needing assistance and the potential impact of chosen interventions.
- Providing relevant training regarding problem-solving steps and decision-making.
- Serving as a resource to educators and other team members on understanding the process and requirements of RTI initiatives.
- Early intervention with struggling learners to link them with appropriate resources.
- Ongoing progress monitoring.
- Comprehensive formal and informal ecological assessments including academic functioning, social/emotional and mental health functioning, adaptive functioning, and family and community interactions.
- Working with District and Building administration on development and implementation of Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS).
- Development and monitoring of Behavioral Intervention Plans (BIP).
- Comprehensive family services. Individual counseling services.
- Small group counseling.
- Community liaison to ensure adequate and appropriate resources for students and families in need.
- Helping students to develop and maintain personal, social and academic competencies.
- Consultation to and with educators and administration to ensure understanding and support of struggling learners.
- Crisis response for students in critical need (e.g. suicide ideation, self-harm, family crisis, homelessness).
- Maintain accurate, complete and correct records as required by Law, District policy and administrative regulations.
- Assist in upholding and enforcing school rules, administrative regulations and Board Policy.
- Make provisions for being available to students and parents for education-related purposes outside the instructional day when required or requested to do so under reasonable terms.
- Attend and participate in meetings involving the faculty and other participant that are of reasonable length and address relevant educational topics as a legitimate function and obligation of professional educators.
- Cooperate in selection of books, equipment and other instructional materials.
- Develop, Implement and monitor student IEP needs in compliance with state and federal law and district procedures.
Qualifications
Illinois licensure with School Social Worker endorsement(s) required.
Bilingual and/or ESL endorsement(s).
Additional Notes
Applicants will be reviewed by District 300's Educational Services.