Demonstration Specialist - School Social Worker LCSW​/Transition Specialist

Position Title

Licensed Clinical Social Worker - Transition Specialist - Demonstration Specialist

A. Harry Moore School – New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ, United States

$63,833.23 – $

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A. Harry Moore School is the special education laboratory school of New Jersey City University. We provide services for students, ages 3-21, with multiple disabilities. The school offers the advantages of working in a public school with the additional benefit of being connected to a large, urban state university. We offer tuition reimbursement, competitive salaries, benefits, school hours and holidays, and a dynamic team of special educators and therapists.

Job goal:
To help students with disabilities achieve personal fulfillment by providing them guidance and counseling services to enable students to create their own personal, educational, and occupational transition plans.

• Assists students in evaluating their aptitudes and abilities through a systematic transition from school to employment or school to college by identifying needs, interests, and preference.
• Develops appropriate job sites and works with the students and staff at AHM in scheduling student placements.
• Serves as liaison between the school and students' places of employment by monitoring their job performance and assisting in their job retention.
• Review and coordinate any transportation needs through the Special Services Department.
• Train teachers in the development of individualized transition plans and work closely with parents and students in the development of these plans.
• Attend conferences with parents/guardians, Child Study Team members and instructional staff, as necessary, to review and update students' transitional goals, objectives and activities.
• Maintain an up-to-date manual covering all school-to-career transition procedures and activities. Establish working relationships with post-secondary support agencies and service providers to facilitate transition planning. Develop and submit monthly reports to the Administration documenting student progress and program outcomes.
• Participate in professional improvement programs and activities as requested by the Administration.
• Maintain up-to-date student transition portfolios.
• Work with teachers, administrators, and other professional staff members by providing information and assistance that will be beneficial to students' overall growth and development.
• Assist staff in the resolution of school related issues and problems pertaining to students.
• Develop and teach a self-advocacy curriculum.
• Provide a transition orientation program for students with disabilities from middle to high school, which may include orientation programs for students, parents, and staff.
• Keep the staff and community informed about the transition program.

• Under the direction of the
  
  A. Harry Moore administration, provide services to students with multiple disabilities ages 3-21 including:
• Assesses a student in terms of personal and family history, social-economic and cultural differences.
• Develops and maintains appropriate written reports and records.
• Responsible for planning, implementing and evaluating transition education and services at the school and system level.
• Participates on a multi-disciplinary team, and consults with a student's team regarding clinical issues, sharing pertinent information to foster each student's social-emotional growth.
• Maintains an ongoing relationship with student families for the purpose of assisting the family in utilizing appropriate community resources; assisting the family with transition planning, applying for guardianship, and assisting the family and/or students to facilitate social adjustment.
• Initiates, facilitates and maintains liaison with community agencies and other resources to meet special needs. Refers parents and child to agencies when appropriate.
• May counsel students in individual or small group sessions.
• Strives to maintain and improve professional competence and to keep abreast of latest professional practices/methods in Special Education.
• Observes pupils in classrooms, school activities, and/or related service sessions, as appropriate.
• Attends and participates in meetings as deemed necessary.
• Assumes other related duties/assignments during the assigned working day, as the administration deems necessary.
• Serve as a resource and/or mentor to other professionals, college students and parents.
• Adhere to the policy and procedures of
  
  A. Harry Moore School and the NJ Department of Education.

• LICENSE:
  Valid N.J. Educational Services Certificate (School Counselor and/or School Social Worker Endorsement). Appointees will be required to possess a driver's license valid in New Jersey only if the operation of a vehicle, rather than employee mobility, is necessary to perform essential duties of the position.
• Demonstrated knowledge of laws and regulations governing special education.
• Effective problem-solving, human relations and…