Social Worker, Special Needs ​/ Learning Disabilities

FAIRFIELD COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT

SOUTH CAROLINA

JOB DESCRIPTION, MAY 2024

• Position Type:
  Student Support Services/ Social Worker
• Date Posted: 3/26/2025
• Location:
  
  Fairfield Middle
• Closing Date: 01/06/2026

Under limited supervision, the social worker provides social casework and counseling services to students and families. Performs related work as required. Reports to the Principal and/or Executive Director of Operations and Student Services.

• Serves with multi-disciplinary team.
• Identifies and provides assistance to ameliorate and resolve social, emotional, and environmental problems which influence students' health or ability to function and perform in the school setting.
• Assesses, plans, intervenes and evaluates difficult psychological problems.
• Provides advanced social work services to students and families in an interdisciplinary clinical setting.
• Serves as an advocate for all students.
• Participates in IEP meetings, if necessary.
• Serves as liaison between the school and community agencies.
• Collaborates with school guidance counselors, nurses, teachers, administrators, and other stakeholders to solve student problems or concerns.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Master's degree in a social work program accredited by the Council on Social Work Education or from a social work or social welfare program offered by a regionally accredited institution. Experience as a professional Social Worker. Requires license by the S.C. Board of Social Work Examiners. Comprehension and application of federal, state, & other laws. Grammatically accurate written and oral skills to communicate ideas clearly & concisely.

Ability to work effectively as a team member.

Physical Requirements: Requires light work that involves walking or standing most of the time and involves exerting up to 20 pounds of force on a recurring basis.

Data Conception: Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable, functional, structural or compositional characteristics (whether similar to or divergent from obvious standards) of data, people or things.

Interpersonal Communication: Requires the ability of speaking and/or signaling people to convey or exchange information. Includes receiving assignments and/or directions from supervisors and giving instruction and/or assignments to students.

Language Ability: Requires the ability to read a variety of policy and procedure manuals, curriculum materials, texts, computer manuals, etc. Requires the ability to enter data into computer and prepare reports, records, teaching materials, correspondence, etc., with proper format, punctuation, spelling and grammar, using all parts of speech. Must be able to speak with poise, voice control and confidence and to articulate information to others.

Intelligence: Requires the ability to apply principles of rational systems to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists; to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in oral, written, diagrammatic or schedule form. Requires the ability to use influence systems in classroom teaching. Requires the ability to make routine independent judgments in the absence of supervisor;

to acquire knowledge of topics related to primary occupation. Must have the ability to comprehend and interpret received information and the ability to comprehend and implement basic office machinery functions.

Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, to follow and give oral and written instructions; to counsel and teach students. Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently with students, teachers and parents, and with persons of varying ages and educational/cultural backgrounds.

Numerical Aptitude: Requires the ability to add and subtract totals, to multiply and divide, to determine percentages and decimals, to determine time. Must be able to use practical applications of fractions, percentages, ratio…