Social Worker, Child Development​/Support

Job Summary

The school social worker is responsible for helping to create a culture of academic and social excellence at Milwaukee College Prep’s three campuses. The main responsibility is to assist teachers and students by providing strategic services that identify and address social-emotional-environmental issues that interfere with the educational process. By working with parents/guardians, teachers, school principals, and community-based resources, the school social worker implements strategies that promote students’ positive school adjustment.

• Identifies and assesses academic problems through analysis of factors impinging on student adjustment, including factors in the 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.
• Completes psychosocial assessments to assist in the determination of special education services.
• Determines and implements appropriate therapeutic strategies to effect changes in behavioral-social interactions of students and their families.
• Provides individual and group therapeutic counseling to students and their families.
• Provides parent/guardian educational workshops on identified issues related to child development, stress reduction, discipline and safety, and teacher/parent/student communication.
• Collaborates with school staff and other school system personnel to implement strategies that promote student learning, including monthly meetings with Deans of Students to discuss behavior issues and strategies.
• Participates as a member of the IEP, RTI, and other school-based teams to develop interventions for promoting students’ academic and behavioral success. Provides RTI behavioral interventions (Tiers 2 and
  3) and completes progress monitoring documentation or supports teachers to do so.
• Serves on school-based committees to address educational issues, adjustment problems, safety issues, and program development for students.
• Provides crisis intervention services.
• 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.
• Conducts classroom meetings, psycho-educational social 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.
• Conducts home visits related to establishing communication and positive connections between parents/guardians and the school around identified issues.
• Completes risk assessments and functional behavior assessments on referred students.
• Completes classroom 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.
• Reviews daily attendance of students and monitors chronic attendance concerns.

• Provide model for students of exemplary conduct.
• Attend meetings and professional development activities when required.
• Other duties as assigned by the principal.

• Alignment with Milwaukee College Prep’s core beliefs and educational philosophy.
• Passion for working with children and tenacity in ensuring each scholar’s success.
• Enthusiasm and positivity.
• Develops programs to address parent/guardian participation in the school and student engagement in the educational process.

The majority of this job involves sitting, mostly indoors. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Education:
  
  Bachelor’s degree in Social Work required;
  Master’s preferred. Ongoing professional development preferred.
• Experience:
  
  Prior experience working with children, preferably in a school setting, preferred.
• Licensing:
  Must obtain Mandatory Child Abuse Reporting Certification annually prior to first day with scholars. School Social Worker License.