Social Worker, Itinerant (Home School location Fair Haven School)

Duties And Responsibilities

• Integrated intervention efforts that emphasize primary prevention
• Early screening and intervention: Observations, collaboration with school staff, Parental Contact
• Approaches to intervention that target multiple risk factors in home, school, and community settings and involve parents, teachers, and administrators
• Counseling services to IEP and regular education students
• Crisis intervention
• Development of IEP: Goals, objectives, present levels
• Participant at PPT meetings
• Collaboration with community agencies
• Support to parents/guardians
• Medicaid Billing
• Support to Culture and Climate as member to such school wide systems: PBIS, SSST, SPMT, Restorative Practices facilitator
• Approaches that seek to improve individual and system factors contributing to academic success: Collaboration and planning with teachers and other related school staff members
• Classroom Lessons: Second Step, Social Skills, Mindfulness, etc.
• Staff Presentations: DCF training, SEL, IDEA related topics, etc.
• Develops and Facilitates Social Skills Groups: self-esteem, anger management, executive functioning skills, etc.
• Works closely with building administrators: Leadership team member, crisis team leader, etc.
• Conducting Evaluation: Initials, Re-evaluations, Annuals, FBA's and BIP's
• Data-informed decision making and intervention fidelity

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will have:

• Masters Degree in Social Work
• Connecticut Certification in Social Work (071)