Lead District Social Worker

Essential Functions

• Identifies and assesses concerns and needs for students in regard to academic and/or behavioral problems through the analysis of factors impeding student adjustment including factors in the home, school and community.
• Serves as a liaison between families and schools to positively promote collaborative processes in educational planning for students.
• Uses district data to provide educational training for parent/legal guardian(s) and school staff on issues or concerns, as identified by need assessment results.
• Locates and mobilizes community resources to support the educational program.
• Identifies resources for families such as counseling, basic needs, and medical needs and provides connection with these resources.
• Affords support to all District Social Workers in managing district Social Worker service delivery that is consistent throughout the School System.
• Provides support to the Counseling and Intervention Supervisor with annual training for all district employees.
• Aids in the development and implementation of district policies and procedures for social programs.
• Collaborates with the Counseling and Intervention Supervisor and the School Safety Supervisor to coordinate the establishment of guidelines, procedures, and training for safety procedures for schools and staff.
• Coordinates on-the-job training for new Social Workers.
• Relays important information to school Social Workers and administration.
• Provides updates on related resources.
• Collects information and data for required district and state reports.
• Determines methods for documentation.
• Establishes process by which to identify student needs.
• Participates in evaluation of program through collection and review of data.

Minimum Qualifications

• L.M.S.W (Licensed Master of Social Work) from a school fully accredited by the Council on Social Work Education and State of Tennessee Division of Health-Related Boards or such advanced licensures as LCSW, LAPSW, LPC/MHSP, and/or school social worker licensure by the Tennessee Department of Education.
• A minimum of three years of school-based experience preferred.
• Ability to write clear, concise and accurate reports, including statistics.
• Proficiency in use of computer applications to include spreadsheets, databases and word processing.
• Strong group processing and presentation skills.

Performance Aptitudes

• Data Utilization: Requires the ability to review, classify, categorize, prioritize, and/or analyze data.
• Human Interaction: Requires the ability to provide guidance, effective supervision, assistance, and/or interpretation to others regarding the application of procedures and standards to specific situations.
• Equipment, Machinery, Tools, and Materials Utilization: Requires the ability to operate, maneuver and/or control the actions of equipment, machinery, tools, and/or materials used in Performing Essential Functions.
• Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a wide variety of reference, descriptive, and/or advisory data and information.
• Mental Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; the ability to calculate decimals and percentages; the ability to utilize principles of fractions; and the ability to interpret graphs.
• Functional Reasoning: Requires the ability to apply principles of rational systems, philosophies, laws, regulations, and procedures; to interpret instructions furnished in written, oral, diagrammatic, or schedule form; and to exercise independent judgment to adopt or modify methods and standards to meet variations in assigned objectives.
• Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness and creativity in situations involving evaluation of information against measurable or verifiable criteria and the goals and priorities of planning and development programs.
• Physical Ability: Tasks require the ability to exert light physical effort in sedentary to light work, but which may involve some lifting, carrying, pushing and/or pulling of objects and materials of light weight (up to 50 pounds).
• Sensory Requirements: Some tasks require the ability to perceive and discriminate visual cues or signals. Some tasks require the ability to communicate orally.
• Environmental Factors: Performance of essential functions may require exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as rude/irate customers.
• FLSA: Exempt