SOCIAL WORKER

Salary Schedule

About the Role

To provide school social work services and referrals to students and families that will meet the social and emotional needs of students and promote a successful learning capacity for all students. To work in collaboration with student services personnel, both district and school-based.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in social work from an accredited college or university.
• Certification or eligible for certification by the Florida State Department of Education.
• Must have and maintain a valid state of Florida driver’s license and/or have access to transportation.

Skills

• Ability to communicate effectively using written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to use effective positive interpersonal skills.
• Knowledge of state and federal laws related to school attendance, child abuse, and HIPAA.
• Knowledge of community resources and community contacts.
• Knowledge of and the ability to interact with individual, group, and family dynamics.
• Ability to analyze reports, social histories, and behavior assessments.
• Commitment to a core set of beliefs about learning, teaching, and ongoing professional learning.
• Knowledge of effective social work theories and practices.
• Ability to provide effective social work practices.
• Ability to make sound decisions.

Responsibilities

• Manifests a professional code of ethics and values.
• Responds to internal and external customers in a timely, accurate, courteous, and empathetic manner representing OCPS in a positive light.
• Model the routine, intentional, and effective use of technology in daily work, including communications, organization, and management tasks.
• Collaborate and meet regularly with the school’s Student Services Team to support all tiers of mental health support and resiliency initiatives.
• Participate in and support the multi-tiered system of supports (MTSS) process to assist with addressing student needs in all areas (i.e., attendance, academic, behavioral, social, health, and mental health, etc.). This includes but is not limited to MTSS, ACST, IEP, 504, and discipline meetings, as appropriate.
• Serve as a representative at appropriate meetings and activities pertaining to the delivery of school social work services and ensure that federal, state, and district requirements are met.
• Conduct assigned portions of evaluations of students for ESE services in accordance with social work areas of responsibility.
• Provide instructional lessons on resiliency topics such as Child Safety Matters and lessons following specific disciplinary infractions.
• Provide direct individual and group counseling services (this may include counseling as a related service on Individual Evaluation and 504 plans).
• Support Threat Management Teams and serve in an appropriate capacity as defined by the district.
• Support students who exhibit self-harm or suicidal ideation and ensure appropriate interventions are implemented.
• Collaborate with school-based attendance team to support all tiers of support related to attendance and truancy.
• Connect families with community resources and information to meet student and family needs.
• Conduct home visits for the purpose of assessing areas that may interfere with learning and/or appropriate educational placement.
• Support district crisis response.
• Provide timely documentation through district tracking and accountability systems (digital and cumulative) as part of job responsibilities.
• Responsible for keeping up to date on current technology, as job appropriate, being used by OCPS. With the support of the district, attends training to ensure skill level in various technologies is at the level required to perform in current position.
• Participate in and provide professional learning for OCPS employees and community members in accordance with social work areas of responsibility as needed.
• Provide support and assistance to graduate interns and newly hired school social workers.
• Follow the district’s policies and procedures as related to all HRMD guidelines and the district’s instructional initiatives.
• Follow the district’s policies and procedures as related to fixed assets.
• Develop leadership in subordinates.
• Responsible for maintaining timely and accurate information and accountable for the quality of information maintained by those they supervise.
• Responsible for self-development and keeping up to date on current research, trends, and best practices relevant to the area of responsibility.
• Performs other duties as assigned by the principal or director.

Reports To

Depending on job location, the Director at the district level or Principal at the school level.

ADA Compliance

• Physical Ability: Tasks involve the ability to exert very moderate physical effort in light work, typically involving some combination of stooping, kneeling, crouching, and crawling, and which may involve some lifting, carrying, pushing, and/or pulling of objects and materials of moderate weight (12-20 pounds).
• Sensory Requirements: Most tasks require visual perception and discrimination. Some tasks require oral communications ability. Some tasks require the ability to perceive and discriminate sounds.
• Environmental Factors: Tasks are regularly performed without exposure to adverse environmental conditions such as dirt, dust, pollen, odors, wetness, humidity, rain, fumes, temperature and noise extremes, machinery, vibrations, electric currents, traffic hazards, animals/wildlife, toxic/poisonous agents, violence, disease, or pathogenic substances.

Evaluation

Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with provisions as set forth in the OCPS Instructional Personnel Evaluation System procedures manual.