Social Worker, Family Advocacy & Support Services

Teachers & Licensed Professionals - Position - SCHOOL SOCIAL WORK

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Social Worker will provide individual and group counseling services. Serves on interdisciplinary teams, provides resources and support for parents/guardians. S upports student achievement by implementing strategies that address social/ emotional and behavioral difficulties. Provides crisis intervention, home visitation, consultation, and program development services. Provides social work services that strengthen home, school, and community partnerships.

• Devises, suggests, and acts upon ways and means of implementing needed changes in the school structure, policies, and practices which may enable a child to secure and sustain better relationships and succeed in school.
• Provides principal, teachers, other school staff, children, and their families with information and/or recommendations regarding the individual social and emotional needs of students.
• Interprets to parents and school personnel the services of public and private agencies which may help meet the needs of children.
• Serves as a resource person to faculties, parent-teacher associations, and other school related groups in the areas of mental health and social adjustment.
• Offers and provides social work services to students, parents or school staff members using casework, group work, community organization, and/or family counseling skills.
• Maintains all required documentation, makes home visits, and performs crisis intervention as required.
• Maintains an effective system of record keeping which will ensure confidentiality and accountability.
• Submits Medicaid reimbursement documentation.
• Maintains clinical notes including individual and group session documentation.
• Monitors IEP caseload for attendance concerns and address concerns by engaging student and providing interventions.
• Participates in staff meetings and collaborates with other service providers.
• Serves on School IEP Team and Student Support Team.
• Performs and promotes all activities in compliance with equal employment and nondiscrimination policies; follows federal laws, state laws, school boards policies and the professional standards.

• Master's degree in social work from an accredited college or university including three semester hours of special education coursework.
• One of the following licenses issued by the Maryland Board of Social Worker Examiners:
• An active Graduate or Master's Social Worker license (LMSW); or
• An active Certified Social Worker license (LCSW); or
• An active Certified Social Worker
  - Clinical license (LCSW-C).
• Thorough knowledge of human growth and development.
• Skill in conducting psychosocial and other clinical assessments.
• Knowledge base of social learning theories and theories of social interaction.
• Knowledge of behavior management strategies.
• Knowledge of methods of gathering data.
• Skills in interviewing and in individual, family, and group counseling and consultation.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, oral and written communication skills and human relations skills.
• Excellent skills in organization and documentation.
• Ability to rapidly develop and maintain working knowledge of City Schools' policies and procedures and city resources.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with students, peers, and parents.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Valid driver's license and reliable vehicular transportation.

Full time or Part time Full time

Benefits ?-- This position is eligible for benefits. To review the available options please see the information relevant to the union for this position by viewing the following link:? http://www.baltimorecityschools.org

This position is affiliated with the
Baltimore Teachers Union (BTU)
bargaining unit.?

This position is affiliated with the State Retirement Plan.