Social Worker, Family Advocacy & Support Services

Position Summary

Position performs specialized social work in an educational setting to enable students to achieve optimal learning by collecting, interpreting, and synthesizing information about a student’s development, medical history, educational history, adaptive functioning, community environment, family dynamics, economic differences, and significant crises that influence academic and behavioral functioning.

• Provides casework services to students in the schools that require assistance due to family, financial, or educational issues.
• Develops, plans, and seeks resources to address the issues which are causing difficulty for the student and his/her family.
• Provides direct counseling services to students, as needed.
• Provides therapeutic intervention services to individuals, groups, parents and families.
• Facilitates group counseling.
• Collaborates with community agencies to coordinate services for students.
• Promotes regular school attendance and parental responsibility for attendance.
• Provides crisis intervention services.
• Provides case management services in combination with other Special Services staff.
• Provides prevention programs in areas such as substance abuse, teen pregnancy, and school drop-out.
• Provides consultation on behalf of children to families, Special Services staff, school personnel, and community agencies as appropriate.
• Serves as a member of a diagnostic team and/or educational planning and placement committee.
• Communicates case findings and recommendations to teachers and other school personnel as needed.
• Serves as a liaison between the school/family/community.
• Works in partnership with parents, schools, and community to assist in the individual child's adjustment to school.
• Makes home visits when appropriate.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Master’s degree in Social Work, Counseling, or related field required.
• Oklahoma licensure or under supervision for licensure as one of the following:
  Licensed Master’s Social Worker (LMSW) Licensed Social Worker (LSW) Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW)
• One year of graduate practicum experience in school setting or at least two years of post-Master’s degree experience working with families and children.
• Knowledge of the needs of special education students. This may include at least one three-hour graduate course in special education or at least one year post-MSW experience working with children with special needs.
• Knowledge of the needs of parents. This may include at least one three-hour graduate course in parent education or parent counseling or at least one year post-MSW experience working with parents and children.

• Able to sit and/or stand for extended periods of time,
• Exhibit manual dexterity to enter data into a computer,
• Ability to see and read a computer screen and printed material with or without vision aids,
• Hear and understand speech at normal classroom levels, outdoors and on the telephone,
• Speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly in normal classrooms, outdoors and on the telephone,
• Physical agility, able to bend, stoop, sit on the floor, climb stairs, walk and reach
• Ability to lift, push, pull up to 25 pounds