School Social Worker

Position

0925 School Social Worker

Salary Range: $86,291-$146,876 per annum (Full-time / School Year). Appointment Type:
Temporary Contract. Length:  School Year.

• School Climate and Systems Work:
  Provide a mental health perspective to (a) enhance school climate and (b) build, sustain, and integrate service-delivery systems in collaboration with the school community of students, staff, families, and service providers.
• School-wide Needs Assessment:
  Assess current status of needs and resources of school community to inform program implementation; consult with teachers, administrators, staff, and parents regarding social and emotional needs of students.
• Coordinated Multi-Disciplinary Student Support Structures:
  • Participate in coordinated multi-disciplinary student support structures including the Student Assistance Program (SAP) and Behavioral Response to Intervention (RtI) team.
  • Coordinate SAP to identify student needs and create intervention plans according to SFUSD SAP manual.
  • Utilize Response to Intervention framework to guide service delivery. Lead school site efforts to integrate the Student Assistance Program, Student Success Team, and Behavioral Response to Intervention frameworks to best support student needs, ensuring data-driven decision making, fidelity of interventions, and progress monitoring to evaluate effectiveness of interventions.
• Relationship-Building and
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Build and maintain positive relationships externally between the school, families and other community members and internally among students and staff.
• Staff Professional Development and Parent/Caregiver Training:
  Develop and provide training to school community on social and emotional factors that impact students’ learning (NASW SSW Standard 10).
• Crisis Response:
  • Act as ongoing member of the school site crisis response team.
  • Consult with administrators regarding planning and implementation of district crisis response protocol as outlined in the SFUSD School Crisis Response Manual.
  • Support school community in the event of individual or school-wide crises.
• Student Attendance:
  Collaborate with school staff and the Pupil Services Office to develop and implement student attendance improvement strategies that include family involvement.
• Mental Health Assessment and Intervention Services:
  Work in collaboration with school community to provide mental health assessment and intervention services from a strengths-based ecological perspective (NASW SSW Standards 12, 13).
• Individual Student Supports:
  Provide support for individual students.
  • Assess home, school, personal, and community factors that may affect a student’s learning.
  • Provide case management, organizing, coordinating, and sustaining activities and services designed to optimize functioning of students and/or families.
  • Provide short-term, goal-oriented individual mental health interventions when social-emotional needs impact academic learning or ability to participate in school day; facilitate connection to more extensive services if needed.
  • Provide direct individual crisis response interventions (e.g., suicide assessment, child crisis consultation, child protective services reporting).
• Mental Health Groups:
  Facilitate mental health and/or psycho-educational support groups for students.
• Student Success Team (SST) Process:
  Assist in coordination and facilitation of SST meetings per SFUSD SST manual.
• Teacher Consultation:
  Consult with teachers and staff to develop optimal classroom learning environments for students; develop behavior plans and support classroom management.
• Special Education Support:
  Collaborate with Special Education Department to support coordination and implementation of on-site behavioral and mental health-related services; document pre-referral behavioral and mental health interventions, include progress monitoring data, and inform referral process for assessment that determines eligibility for special education services.
• Department and District Responsibilities:
  • Professional Development Advancement of the Profession:
    Strengthen professional skills and contribute to advancing the professional community.
  • Attend and/or facilitate…