School Social Worker Part-Time​/Virtual

Job Description

MN Online High School is seeking a compassionate, collaborative, and student-centered Part-Time School Social Worker to support the social, emotional, and mental health needs of students within our online learning community.

The School Social Worker will work approximately 5-10 hours per week, providing direct support to students, consultation and resources to staff, and leadership in school wide initiatives that promote student belonging, safety, well-being, and connection. The position will also facilitate the school's Gender and Sexuality Alliance (GSA) and participate in the School Safety Team and other relevant committees.

Because MN Online High School serves students virtually, the ideal candidate will be comfortable building relationships and providing support in an online environment while collaborating closely with teachers, administrators, counselors, families, and other school professionals.

• Bachelor's or master's degree in social work from an accredited program, with a master's degree preferred.
• Appropriate Minnesota licensure or eligibility for licensure relevant to the responsibilities of the position.
• Experience working with adolescents in a school, mental health, social service, or community-based setting.
• Knowledge of adolescent social-emotional development and youth mental health.
• Experience supporting diverse student populations and creating environments where students feel respected, safe, and connected.
• Ability to maintain appropriate professional boundaries and student confidentiality.
• Strong communication, collaboration, organization, and relationship-building skills.
• Comfort providing student services, meetings, consultation, and programming in a virtual environment.
• Ability to work independently while functioning as part of a multidisciplinary school team.

Minnesota Online High School (MNOHS) is a small, public online high school open to any Minnesota resident in grades 9 - 12. The mission of MNOHS is to engage, inspire, and educate the whole student for an options-rich future through a challenging, flexible, teacher-developed curriculum; with the encouragement of responsive faculty and staff; within a creative and supportive learning community.

The majority of our students choose MNOHS as their enrolling school (comprehensive enrollment) while some split their enrollment between MNOHS and their home district (supplemental enrollment). Students attend MNOHS for a number of reasons: conflicts with training for athletics or the arts; work or family responsibilities that make attending a bricks-and-mortar classroom impossible; chronic health problems; or difficulty scheduling the courses a student wants or needs at his/her enrolling school.

The MNOHS curriculum emphasizes college readiness by providing students with opportunities to develop creativity, critical thinking, reading, writing, mathematics, and 21st Century skills across the curriculum. Students work on SEL lessons and build relationships at the same time as working on academic content courses.

MNOHS Vision:
At MNOHS, all students define their unique identities and entry points into adult life; their reasons to persist and to stretch toward excellence; and their individual and collective purposes that make school, work and life meaningful. MNOHS supports students to engage with learning not only online but everywhere adults will support their achievement