School Social Worker

You bring your body, mind, heart and spirit to your work as a School Social Worker.

You know when to move quickly. When to sit quietly. When to laugh loudly.

You effectively use your compassion, empathy, respect, and authenticity to form genuine, trusting relationships with your clients.

You’re great at what you do, but you want to be part of something even greater. Because you believe that while individuals can be strong, the right team is invincible.

Us.

Mount Saint Vincent is the Rocky Mountain region’s premier provider of mental health treatment, foster care services, K-8 education, and trauma-informed training — all focused on children and their families. We also operate a community early learning center that consistently earns a Colorado Shines four-star rating. Our innovative programs help children reach their full potential within their homes, schools and communities.

Benefits are one of the ways we encourage health for you and your family. Our generous package includes medical, dental and vision coverage. But health is more than a well-working body: it encompasses body, mind and social well-being. To that end, we’ve launched a Healthy Living program to address your holistic health. Healthy Living includes financial incentives, digital tools, tobacco cessation, classes, counseling and paid time off. We also offer financial wellness tools and retirement planning.

We.

Together we’ll align mission and careers, values and workplace. We’ll encourage joy and take pride in our integrity.

We’ll laugh at each other’s jokes (even the bad ones). We’ll hello and high five. We’ll celebrate milestones and acknowledge the value of spirituality in healing.

We’re proud of what we know, which includes how much there is to learn.

Your day.

As a School Social Worker you need to know how to:

• Facilitate and run the Affective Education Program within the school. Complete all documentation required for the program.


• Attend all IEP meetings and complete Behavior Improvement Plans (BIP) for students with IEPs.


• Attend 24-hour and 10-day staffings on new students.


• Co-facilitate rounds with the school leadership team.


• Facilitate regularly scheduled Cares and Concerns meetings.


• Support the Day Treatment Milieu in the morning.


• Conduct clinical supervision of paraprofessionals as well as classrooms.


• Serve as the primary therapist on at least one case, including conducting therapeutic sessions, case management, and documentation requirements.


• Assist in Neurosequential Model of Education (NME) Booster creation and facilitation.


• Conduct crisis sessions within the school hours.


• Provide on-call services during school days with back up as needed.


• Coordinate school crises and be responsible for notifying the School Clinical Supervisor and School Director of situations.


• Maintain current certifications (e.g., Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI), CPR, First Aid, AED, Universal Precautions) and trainings (e.g., Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT)).


• Know and implement crisis prevention/intervention techniques (i.e. TCI training, time-out, locked door quiet room) as well as agency procedures (i.e. runaway, injury, emergency).


• Participate in in-service trainings and, when appropriate, provide presentations in the community.


• Provide clinical supervision for graduate students in the mental health field and supervision of Bachelor’s-level interns, if able to meet the instructional criteria.


• Participate in programmatic and policy planning for the agency which may include involvement with outside agencies or committees.


• Responsibly document, using agency forms, on critical incidences (e.g., therapeutic physical managements, medical incidences, state reports) and complete these tasks in a timely manner.

Your experience.

We hire people, not resumes. But we also expect excellence, which is why we require:

• Master’s Degree in Social Work (MSW)


• Current School Social Work certification or near completion


• Current CDE Special Service Provider license (or in process)


• Current Driver’s License and must obtain Colorado Driver's License within 30 days of moving to Colorado


• Motor vehicle record and proof of automobile insurance coverage to be updated annually


• Minimum of three (3) years of experience working in the mental health field with children

Preferred:

• Current clinical license


• Previous supervisory experience


• Previous experience with Restorative Practices/Justice

Your next move.

Now that you know more about being a School Social Worker on our team we hope you’ll join us. At SCL Health you’ll reaffirm every day how much you love this work, and why you were called to it in the first place.