SYShort-Term : School Social Worker Livingston Road

SY2025-26 Short-Term Hire:
School Social Worker

Livingston Road

Ingenuity Prep prepares PreK, Elementary, Middle school students in Ward 8 to succeed in college and beyond as impactful civic leaders. Our innovative instructional model promotes small group learning for students, collaborative teaching teams, and robust coaching and professional development opportunities for teachers. Our teacher career ladder rewards strong performance over time, giving teachers the opportunity to earn higher levels of base compensation and bonuses as they demonstrate effectiveness with their students and colleagues.

Our instructional leaders are charged with supporting teachers by providing clear expectations, ongoing feedback, and targeted development.

We are looking for an outstanding experienced School Social Worker to join our school for the remainder of the school year as a short-term hire. As a member of the Ingenuity Prep Student & Family Support Team, the School Social Worker will support students and families, empower teachers, and serve as a critical partner in ensuring that students have the services they need to be successful both academically and socially/emotionally.

This position is an in-person short-term hire role from February 2026 to June 2026; work hours are 7:30 - 4:00pm daily (Monday-Friday).

• Mission:
  We’re closing the opportunity gap. Students and families in Southeast D.C. have too few options for high-quality elementary, middle, and high schools. Ingenuity Prep aspires to right this systemic injustice providing an exemplary educational option for Southeast D.C.’s students and families.
• Model:
  We pair high expectations with high support. Too often, our students are underestimated. At Ingenuity Prep, an innovative teacher development model, paired with best‑in‑class training from strong instructional leaders, allows us to grow great teachers who, ultimately, lead high‑expectation and high‑support classrooms.
• Results:
  Our students are defying expectations
  . Ingenuity Prep’s students outperform their neighborhood peers on rigorous, national, college‑track assessments. Already out‑performing many of their more privileged peers around the city, and in the coming years, Ingenuity Prep’s students will provide an expectation‑defying and achievement‑gap‑closing proof point — showing what our kids are capable of when we provide the right opportunities, expectations, and support.

• Provide effective individual and group services to students - including special education services - that emphasize improved academic and social‑emotional outcomes.
• Identify students in need of counseling and social services.
• Conduct FBAs and Social History reports; develop, monitor, review, and modify behavior intervention plans.
• In collaboration with the school’s instructional leadership, empower teachers and staff by providing them with behavioral strategy support, professional development, and supporting resources; provide support for coordinating special education services.
• Provide consultation to the Director of Student Wellness on Ingenuity Prep’s social and emotional learning curriculum and PBIS programming; provide consultation on the school’s character development program.
• Identify and address factors leading to attendance/behavior challenges; develop strategies to deal with those challenges, including individualized attendance/behavior contracts and supporting home visits.
• Provide recommendations for interventions that address attendance/behavior issues through partnerships with the school and students’ families.
• Maintain accurate documentation of services provided.
• Possess a thorough understanding of and abide by the profession’s Code of Ethics.

• You believe deeply in Ingenuity Prep’s mission, and in our ability to achieve ambitious goals.
• You have a Bachelor’s degree, as well as a MSW or DSW.
• You hold one of the following social work licenses: LMSW, LGSW, LCSW, LICSW, LMFT, or LPC.
• At least two years of experience serving as a social worker, ideally in a school setting is preferred.
• You are highly skilled in engaging and supporting young…