Social Worker-Elementary
Job Posting for Social Worker-Elementary at Algiers Charter
SCHOOL SOCIAL WORKER
Reports to Principal
Position Description & Expectations
- Provide crisis intervention, counseling services and support coordination
- Build trusting relationships with students, families, and school personnel
- Maintain confidentiality of student and family issues
- Provide home visits to meet families to address barriers to learning if needed
- Collaborate with all school personnel to assess students social/ emotional obstacles to success
- Coordinate services for students and families which may involve referrals to community support agencies
- Help families understand school policies, services and programs
- Assist teachers and principals in developing plans to help students with academic and behavior barriers
- Mediate matters as it relates to the student’s needs between school and family
- Ability to work with a team of teachers and other ancillary staff members in crisis situations
- Follow up on student issues referred by parent, teacher, administrator or students
- Develop, facilitate, coordinate prevention activities and intervention services
- Serves as the chairperson and/or member of the Student Assistance-Support team
- Member of the Positive Behavior Intervention and Support team/RTI behavior support team
- Participate in the identification of students who are in need of exceptional services
- Participate in the Individualized Education Program process and development
- Monitors school attendance and develop methods to promote school attendance
- Maintains case files and records to track/monitor that status of student progress
- Provide professional development and in-services to school personnel
- Advocates for children and reports any abuse of a child to the appropriate authorities.
- Assists in coordinating community outreach initiatives for the school.
- Perform related duties assigned
Minimum Qualifications:
- Licensed Master’s Social Worker (LMSW) in the State of Louisiana, with a minimum of three years of post-master’s experience in a social work setting, providing social work services, in particular working with children, youth and families required.
- Ancillary Certification from the Louisiana Department of Education as a Qualified School Social Worker
Physical Demands: the physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be required to sit, walk, stand, talk, and hear.
- Repeating motions that may include the wrists, hands and/or fingers.
- Ability to work off ladders to a height of 30 ft.
- Ability to lift a minimum of 60 pounds.
- Ability to work evening and/or weekend hours when necessary.
Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- May work prolonged or irregular hours.
- Frequent district wide travel; occasional statewide or out-of-state travel.
- The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
- Rotating within a school environment.
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