School Social Worker Job Town of New Paltz New York USA,Social Work

Ulster BOCES Instructional Services is seeking a School Social Worker to join our team in providing behavioral consultation, assessment, coaching, and professional support to educators and school teams across our component districts. This is a staff-focused position with limited direct student contact. The primary responsibility is to build the capacity of teachers, administrators, paraprofessionals, and school-based teams to effectively understand and respond to students with behavioral and social-emotional needs.

The successful candidate will serve as a behavioral support resource to component district staff—helping school personnel understand the function of student behavior, develop effective interventions, collect and analyze meaningful data (FBA's/BIP's), and implement strategies that support student success. This position is not a counseling or direct-service social work position. While occasional student observation is an important component of the work, the majority of the role involves supporting the adults who work with students.

The School Social Worker will function as a behavioral consultant, coach, and capacity-builder, helping educators support their students. This is a full-time, 10-month position. Appropriate NYS License, Certification and fingerprinting required.

Ulster BOCES offers regionally competitive salary and benefits (see the Ulster BOCES Teachers' Organization contract at https://www.ulsterboces.org/faq-links/employment-contracts for details).

Salary commensurate with experience and training. Salary starting at $67,765 per year.

To be legally employed in this position, you must possess a valid NYS teaching certificate. The teaching certificate requirements can be found at the following link: http://eservices.nysed.gov/teach/certhelp/Cert Requirement Help .do.

Select the following criteria:

Area of Interest:
Administration and Pupil Personnel Services
Subject Area:

Social Work
Grade Level:Pre K-12 - All Grades
Title:

School Social Worker
Type of Certificate:

Provisional or Permanent Certificate

General Responsibilities

To help students resolve such personal, emotional and social problems as they interfere with their adjustment to school and their capacity to enjoythe fullest benefits of the education offered them.

Work Schedule

10 Month Schedule Monday through Friday

Specific Duties

Performs casework service with individual students to correct those personal, social, or emotional maladjustments related to their educational and social progress.

Performs casework service with parents as an integral part of the task of helping students, to increase the parents' understanding, their constructive participation in resolving their child's problems, and their knowledge and use of appropriate resources available.

Consults and collaborates with other school personnel in gathering and giving information on a case, and in establishing and planning for respective roles in the modification of the student's behavior.

Supervises the referral of students to, and serves as liaison with, such outside agencies as the Welfare Department, Child Placement Bureau, Juvenile Court,and the like, as appropriate.

Makes home visits for the purpose of gathering helpful information on a student'sbackground.

Serves as liaison between home andschool when considerable follow-up is necessary, as in welfare cases, foster home children, and disadvantaged students.

Assists students directly toward adjustment to school.

Keeps sufficient records of cases for use by school staff members and outside agencies when appropriate.

Assumes other duties as assigned by the Supervisor.

Minimum Qualifications

Possession of Appropriate NYS School Social Worker Certification
Possession of Appropriate NYS License as a Licensed Clinical Social…