School Social Worker - Elementary

Starting Date: Aug 3, 2026

School Social Worker

The School Social Worker promotes and enhances the overall academic mission by providing services that strengthen home, school, and community partnerships and address barriers to learning and achievement. The School Social Worker significantly contributes to the development of a healthy, safe, and caring environment. Such an environment is achieved by advancing the understanding of the emotional and social development of children and the influences of family, community, and cultural differences on student success along with the implementation of effective intervention strategies.

The major functions of the school social worker job description incorporate the North Carolina State Board of Education guiding mission that every public‑school student will graduate from high school with a globally competitive education, be prepared for work and postsecondary education, and be ready for life in the twenty‑first century.

Reports to: Director of Student and Family Health

• Assessment of Student, Family, and School Needs
  • Effectively and appropriately assesses and addresses the needs, characteristics, and interactions of students, families, LEA personnel, and community.
  • Conducts assessments and evaluations in accordance with family and student rights.
  • Uses student, family, and school assessment results to identify needs that affect student learning.
  • Uses assessment and evaluation results to develop appropriate interventions for students, families, schools, and communities.
  • Develops long‑term and short‑term intervention plans consistent with curriculum, students’ needs, strengths, diversity, life experiences, and social and emotional factors.
  • Uses a variety of appropriate formal and informal tools and techniques, including observations and interviews, to evaluate the progress and performance of students and families.
  • Addresses the needs of the school, student, families, and community by collaborating with the Student Support Services Team to design a holistic approach to any barriers or problems with the educational process.
• Direct Services / Service Delivery
  • Intervenes for student success via assessment, crisis intervention and response, home visits, conflict resolution, individual and group counseling, consultation, program development, dropout prevention, graduation awareness, and coordination of school and community services.
  • Promotes family support of students’ learning experience within the context of multicultural understanding and competencies.
  • Provides services to students in ways that build upon individual strengths and offers students maximum opportunities to participate in the planning and direction of their own learning experience.
  • Develops and provides training and educational programs that address the goals and mission of the educational institution.
• Advocacy
  • Advocates for appropriate services for students and their families.
  • Advocates and facilitates change that effectively responds to the needs of students, families, and school systems using appropriate statutes, case law, policies, and procedures.
  • Promotes services to students and their families within the context of multicultural understanding and competence that enhances families’ support of students learning experiences.
  • Assists students and their families in gaining access to formal and informal community resources.
  • Utilizes research and technologies to assist students, families, schools, and communities.
• Consultation and Collaboration
  • Consults and collaborates with stakeholders on behalf of students and their families.
  • Consults with stakeholders to facilitate an understanding of factors in the home, local education agency, and community that affect students’ educational experiences.
  • Consults on issues such as attendance, diversity, mental health, behavior management, delinquency, crisis intervention, homelessness, child abuse, neglect, and the importance of confidentiality.
  • Initiates and supports activities to overcome institutional barriers and gaps in services as leaders and members of interdisciplinary teams.
  • Works with internal and external individuals,…