Social Worker

About the Role

Provide educationally related social work services for students with disabilities.

Responsibilities

• Complete routine reports and tasks promptly and efficiently.
• Participate in student planning and program development.
• Implement individual student programs.
• Demonstrate a willingness to examine and implement change as appropriate.
• Work productively with colleagues, parents, and students.
• Demonstrate accurate knowledge of the field.
• Demonstrate appropriate assessment techniques and procedures.
• Demonstrate a professional demeanor as defined by the code of ethics of the education professional.
• Conduct an individualized social-emotional-adaptive assessment of the student, the student’s family, and the educational and social communities.
• Employ appropriate methods of practice that enable students and their families to function adequately within their educational and community settings.
• Utilize ongoing appropriate methods to evaluate services.
• Prepare social or developmental histories for students with disabilities.
• Provide group and individual counseling with students and their families who are receiving special education as identified as a need through assessment.
• Work with problems in student living situations (home, community, and school) that affect their adjustment in school.
• Mobilize school and community resources to enable students to receive benefit from their special education services.
• Attend Multidisciplinary Team meetings as needed to discuss student needs, evaluation data, and to plan for goals and objectives, if appropriate.
• Maintain necessary and appropriate licensure.
• Other duties as deemed necessary by supervisor.

Requirements

• Must have current MSW license.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively with parents, students, and school personnel.

Physical Requirements

• Sitting, standing, lifting and carrying (up to 50 pounds).
• Reaching, squatting, kneeling, prolonged typing.
• Physical ability to type on a keyboard terminal and move light furniture.

Equipment/Technology Handled

Must know how to properly operate or be willing to learn to operate all multimedia equipment including current technology.

Work Environment

• Must be able to work within various degrees of noise, temperature, and air quality.
• Interruptions of work are routine.
• Flexibility and patience are required.
• Must be self-motivated and able to complete job assignments without direct supervision.