**Anticipated** School Social Worker - Middle School (6-8)
Department: Core Instruction • FLSA Status: Non-exempt • Reports To: Core Instruction Administration • Primary Reporting Location: Assigned School Building Level, Middle – Grades 6‑8 • Date Available: SY27 • Bargaining Unit & Classification: OPTA & Certified • Supervisory Responsibilities: None
About the role
School Social Workers are ethically driven master's level practitioners with the unique ability to improve student academic outcomes by improving students' social-emotional well being and school climate, supporting teachers and administration, assisting families with their child's social-emotional needs, and identifying local resources and intervening in crisis situations. School Social Workers have the skill set necessary to assist in working with children with behavioral challenges. School Social Workers have a positive effect on the students they work with leading to positive educational outcomes. The ideal candidate will work in support of the district's equity commitments as expressed in Board Policy 7:12: Ensuring Racial and Educational Equity.
Responsibilities
- Perform casework service with individual students to address personal, social, or emotional needs related to their educational and social progress.
- Perform case work service with parents to increase parents' understanding, their constructive participation in resolving their child's problems, and their knowledge and use of appropriate resources available.
- Consult and collaborate with other school personnel in gathering and giving information on a case or classroom group, and in establishing and planning for respective roles in the modification of students' behavior.
- Supervise the referral of students to, and serve as liaison with, such outside agencies as the Department of Children and Family Services and the Juvenile Court as appropriate.
- Serve as liaison between home and school when considerable follow-up is necessary, as in welfare cases, foster home children, and disadvantaged students.
- Assist children directly toward adjustment in school.
- Keep all necessary records as required.
- Other duties as assigned by the Principal.