School Social Worker

Overview

Chelsea is seeking a Social Worker to join the Student Support Team. A successful candidates are those excited to work in a dynamic school environment that values collaboration and teamwork. This position requires a great deal of case management, referral management and coordination with other staff, adult supporters, and community agencies. Bilingual candidates (English/Spanish) are preferred.

Social workers in the Phoenix Charter Academy Network are charged with operating within these Key Areas:

• Internalize mission and make this central to all decisions and actions inside and outside of the school in addition to upholding the scholar code of conduct at all times.
• Meet with individual scholars in accordance with their individual needs, or IEPs or 504 plans, to provide counseling toward identified goals so that school success is possible.
• Create and maintain relationships and formal partnerships with local mental health and family counseling agencies as well as other partners who may be able to offer services to Phoenix scholars and families in need.

• In collaboration with the other Social Worker(s):
  Be the clinical part of the Student Support Team, provide consult to SS staff assisting scholars with or without IEPs and 504s in crisis (both in the moment and with appropriate follow up) and with ongoing behavioral interventions.
• Create personal, warm relationships with all scholars, even those that are not targeted for social work intervention, sending a clear message that the academic work is central to the mission of the school and all relationships in the school are in place to support the academic success of scholars in college and post-secondary endeavors.
• Work collaboratively with BEST teams and outside psychologists to acquire assessments and higher level of care for scholars.
• Outreach to parents and adult supporters to discuss and address clinical needs of scholars;
• Manage intakes and reporting, including counseling intakes and Medicaid paperwork;
• Assist staff and personnel who have heard scholar disclosures with managing, processing and dealing with confidential and privileged information that scholars may disclose;
• Coordinate and case manage scholars hospitalized or in other residential settings or treatment programs;
• Attend IEP and other meetings to assess and address scholars in need of or receiving special education services;
• Design and implement social-emotional support groups addressing needs identified in current scholar body;
• Provide psycho-education to personnel regarding social and emotional disabilities and well-being;
• Collect all data relative to Social Work, use this data to support scholar achievement and organizational strategies and share data with staff as part of Professional Development;
• Work with school nurse and Student Support Team regarding medication issues, scholars who are pregnant, and scholars with chronic illnesses;
• Support new scholar orientations and occasional Student Support Center shifts.
• Work as part of Student Support Team during summer: retention work, re-engagement work, training new staff, etc.
• Participate in all meetings with Student Support Team to ensure the Phoenix scholar’s support growth goals are being met.
• Commit to growing professionally through consistent and constant feedback and reflection; remain humble and relentless. Be committed to professionally developing through feedback, tackling challenging tasks, and professional development meetings/trainings.

• Education:
  
  Bachelor's in Related Subject (School Psychology or Counseling)
• Years of
  
  Experience:
  
  2+ Preferred (May include Practicum and related graduate fieldwork)
• Preferred Licensure:
  School Social Worker/School Adjustment Counselor (MA License, Initial or Professional)
• Spanish/Portuguess language skills highly preferred
• Employment is based on qualifications for the role as well as a successful background check

Phoenix Charter Academy aims to show the world what all young people can do, and to defy the limitations of societal assumptions, classism, and racism. Phoenix Charter Academy was founded on the unwavering belief that all students can succeed at high levels. While this mantra is typical of high-performing schools, particularly those in the charter sector, Phoenix truly endeavors to reach every student, focusing on a growing number on the margins of the traditional public district education system: students who have dropped out of high school, students who are parenting children of their own, students who are or have been involved with the juvenile justice system, students who are older and new to the country and cannot gain access to public schooling, and students who are under-credited relative to the number of years they have spent enrolled in high school.

We believe that these students, like all students, are completely capable of developing the skills necessary to set themselves up for lifetimes of economic prosperity and success. We support our students with…