Anticipated: District Social Worker

• Assists students with academic learning by providing strategic services that identify and address the social-emotional-environmental issues that interfere with the educational process.
• Working with parents/guardians, teachers, school principal and community based resources, the school social worker implements strategies that promote a positive school experience for all students.
• Identifies and accesses academic problems through analysis of factors impinging on student adjustment including factors in home, school, and community.
• Serves as a liaison between families and the school to positively promote collaborative processes in educational planning for students by encouraging parent/guardian participation in the school setting.
• Provides individual and group counseling.
• Collaborates with school staff and other school system personnel in implementing strategies to promote student learning.
• Participate as members of school based teams to develop interventions for promoting students' academic success.
• Provides crisis intervention services in conjunction with school safety team.
• Provides social work case management for students and families.
• Provides staff consultation on behavioral-emotional-environmental issues affecting student participation in the learning process.
• Conducts staff development on issues related to social-emotional-environmental factors that impact learning.
• Develops programs to address parent/guardian participation in the school and student engagement in the educational process.
• Conducts classroom meetings, social interaction skills groups, and classroom presentations on identified areas of concern for the students.
• Maintains required clinical records and submits appropriate documents for statistical reports with adherence to program standards in school social work.
• Completes risk assessments on referred students.
• Completes classroom student observations.
• Serves as liaison with community agencies and assists in fostering communication between schools, parents/guardians, and community leaders.
• Locates and mobilizes community resources to support the educational program.
• Attends meetings and professional development activities as required.
• Develop and coordinate specialized programmatic activities for the program to assist with addressing student social and educational needs.
• Develop and maintain a current list of resources that includes self-help/support groups to ensure comprehensive services are provided to students and their families.

1. Master's Degree
2. A professional educator license with a school social worker endorsement

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