Social Worker

Job Description:
Part-Time School Social Worker
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master in Social Work, three years experience working with children and families, especially in a school setting.

Position Responsibilities:
Assessment
-Conducts assessments in accordance with parent/guardian and student rights. Uses student, family, and school assessments to effectively and appropriately identify needs that impact student learning and develop appropriate interventions.Develops short- and long-term intervention plans consistent with school curriculum and culture; students' needs, strengths, diversity and life experiences; and social and emotional factors.Uses a variety of appropriate tools and techniques to evaluate progress of students and families.

Service Delivery
- Uses knowledge of student situation and understanding of the reciprocal influences of home, school, and community to intervene for student success.
- Provides services to students in ways that build upon individual strengths and offers students maximum opportunities to participate in their own learning experience.
- Promotes services to students and families that are provided within the context of multicultural understanding and competence.
- Utilizes evidenced-based practice and research to assist students, families, the school, and communities.
- Conducts outreach and promotes collaboration among community providers that have diverse offerings and facilitate student and family access to these services.
- Adheres to appropriate statutes, case law, policies, and procedures.
- Works with the principal on such issues as attendance, confidentiality, ethnicity and diversity, mental health, behavior management, crisis intervention and child abuse and neglect.

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