School Social Worker

Responsibilities

• Promotes mental health and well-being of all students by providing individual and group psychoeducational counseling, implementing district crisis protocols, and linking students and families to community mental health services.
• Serves as the liaison between school, family, and community agencies, including advocacy on behalf of students.
• Serves as a parent advocate and engages parents in the educational process through a multi-tiered system of supports, including home visits.
• Consults with classroom teachers, administrators, and other stakeholders to provide insight and understanding regarding a student’s needs or behaviors.
• Develops comprehensive, diagnostic assessments of students’ social, emotional, and interpersonal relationships within the school, home, and community.
• Serves on intra/interdisciplinary teams at each school to assist students experiencing attendance, academic, social, emotional, and/or health problems.
• Identifies barriers to student attendance and engages parents in implementing interventions to maximize student achievement.
• Collaborates with internal and external resource providers to develop a comprehensive service and delivery system.
• Provides and participates in professional developmental opportunities.

Qualifications

• Three (3) years of increasingly responsible experience in social work preferred.
• Field work placement in a school setting or related human service area (e.g., community mental health, social service agency, etc.) or school social work experience preferred.
• Florida Professional Educator Certificate or Florida Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) certification.

Other Information

• Experience: Three (3) years of increasingly responsible experience in social work preferred.
• Field work placement in a school setting or related human service area (e.g., community mental health, social service agency, etc.) or school social work experience preferred.
• Certification as a school social worker may be earned in accordance with School Board Policy.
• Language Skills: Reads and interprets general business and professional journals, technical procedures, or regulations. Writes reports, correspondence, and manuals. Effectively presents and responds to questions from managers and the public.
• Mathematical Skills: Works with math concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of geometry and trigonometry. Applies concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
• Reasoning Ability: Defines problems, collects data, establishes facts, and draws valid conclusions. Interprets an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deals with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Computer Skills: Knowledge of relevant and current computer software programs.
• Physical Demands: Physical Activities: Standing, walking, sitting, climbing, kneeling, keyboarding, talking, hearing, depth perception, near acuity, far acuity, stooping, and field of vision. Lifting Demands: Up to 10 pounds. Reaching Activities: Both dominant and non-dominant hand; overhead.
• Environmental Conditions: Noise Intensity: 3, moderate.

Experience

• Three (3) years of increasingly responsible experience in social work preferred.
• Field work placement in a school setting or related human service area (e.g., community mental health, social service agency, etc.) or school social work experience preferred.

Education

• Florida Professional Educator Certificate or Florida Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) certification.

Salary

Our district salary schedules are available at: https://www.hillsboroughschools.org/employeerelations