Duties
Reports To: Coordinator of Special Services and Principal
Salary: Teacher Salary Schedule
Job Goal: To enhance the educational and psycho-social development of all school-age children and to be involved in social action designated to improve educational and psycho-social conditions for children and families.
Key Duties & Responsibilities Include:
- Provides social work counseling to students.
- Provides psycho-social assessment and diagnosis of behavioral disabilities with recommendations.
- Provides periodic re-evaluations.
- Participates in case conferences involving cooperation with other student personnel workers, school personnel and community agencies.
- Makes referral to public or private agencies with appropriate follow-up.
- Serves as a liaison between school, family and community resources.
- Serves as a source of information regarding community resources.
- Maintain case history records and prepare reports.
- Counsel students whose behavior, school progress, or mental or physical impairment indicate a need for assistance, diagnosing students' problems and arranging for needed services.
- Maintains appropriate school records and provides written reports and communications.
- Participation as a resource person in in-service training and planning.
- An understanding of the IEP process.
- Participates in the Individual Education Plan (IEP) process as required.
- Leadership skills in working with individuals and groups (i.e. initiating individual or group discussion, listening, clarifying and facilitating interactions and sharing of ideas).
- Ability to prepare social and family histories and cooperates on the formulation of committee reports.
- Social work case reporting and writing skills.
- Ability to counsel students, parents, staff and lay persons individually and in groups.
- Skills in conducting effective meetings and conferences (including the resolution of disagreements).
- Skill in socio-environmental analysis and diagnosis on problem students.
- A knowledge of community resources.
- Skill in communicating concepts and information accurately orally or in writing, including formal statistical reports.
- Ability to demonstrate effective liaison relationships with parents, schools and agencies.
- Ability to coordinate activities from many sources for the benefit of an individual student, and to make arrangements for groups of students.
- Ability to aid in program development.
- Skills in supervising and motivating school social work interns.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
- Experience with Rti Interventions and small group SRA reading groups along with experience in working with data teams.
Other Duties as Assigned: Assumes other responsibilities as determined by the Superintendent.
Evaluation: Performance evaluated in accordance with the provisions of the District Evaluation Plan.