Trauma Informed School Social Worker
Trauma Informed School Social Worker
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Job Description
Position Title: Trauma Informed School Social Worker
Term of Employment:
FullTime: 10 months
Reports To: Executive Director of Student Services
Pay Information: State Salary Scale
This position is grant funded by Project Fast through December 2027.
General Responsibilities
Responsible for establishing comprehensive schoolbased mental health services at separate school sites and integrated throughout the school day within a blended therapeutic and educational environment. Services include individual group and family therapy; community meetings school wide behavior management systems therapeutic recreation and skills building activities. Adjunct services include case management crisis management consultation and collaboration with IEP team members. Services provided by qualified mental health clinicians and rehabilitation specialists.
Essential Job Functions
- Develop an intake and referral process to services that expands the safety net and assures that no student falls through the cracks.
- Coordinate training for all school personnel focusing on intake and referral process to mental health specialists.
- Assist schools in adopting the most successful prevention and intervention strategies that address student needs.
- Provide staff development on mental health and cooccurring disorders among student populations.
- Provide training to students parents and partners as requested and needed.
- Provide Tier 2 and 3 students individualized intensive counseling services within the school setting.
- Provide clinical psychotherapy services to students with trauma related symptoms.
- Provide Screening Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) school based treatment.
- Provide training to teachers to facilitate identification of student needs for intensive counseling services.
- Coordinate prevention activities with staff and partners for student engagement and empowerment.
- Provide technical support to schools and communities on mental health services programming and concerns.
- Perform other duties as requested.
Knowledge Skills and Abilities
- Comprehensive knowledge of school administration principles practices and procedures.
- Comprehensive knowledge of student service principles and practices and administrative hearing techniques.
- Ability to develop and present ideas effectively both orally and in written form.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with school officials school administrators parents associates and the general public
- Ability to work independently and problem solve challenging situations
- Effective oral and written communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to work well with people.
Minimum Training and Experience
- Masters Degree in Social Work or related mental health field.
- Licensed with two or more years of experience working with youth. Licensed school social worker preferred.
- State certification.
Minimum Qualifications or Standards Required to Perform Essential Job Functions
Physical Requirements: The work regularly requires standing and walking around the
classroom and school. It requires the ability to communicate effectively using speech vision
and hearing. The work requires the use of hands for simple grasping and fine manipulations.
The work often requires bending squatting reaching with the ability to lift carry push or pull
light weights and rarely the lifting of weights above 30 pounds. The work occasionally
handles/works with biohazards and/or risks for potential jobrelated injury such as those found
in a laboratory or shop environment. The work requires activities occasionally involving driving
automotive equipment.
Data Conception: Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable
functional structural or composite characteristics (whether similar or divergent from obvious
standards) of data people or things.
Interpersonal Communication: Requires the ability to speak and/or signal people to convey
or exchange information. Includes receiving instructions assignments or directions to
subordinates or assistants.
Language Ability: Requires the ability to read a variety of correspondence reports forms
articles proposals contracts etc. Requires the ability to prepare correspondence reports
forms evaluations contracts policies handbooks budgets etc. using prescribed formats and
conforming to all rules of punctuation grammar diction and style. Requires the ability to speak
before groups of people with poise voice control and confidence.
Intelligence: Requires the ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define
problems collect data establish facts and draw valid conclusions; to interpret an extensive
variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagrammatic form; and to deal with several
abstract and concrete variables.
Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to record and deliver information to explain procedures
to give oral and written instructions. Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently in a
variety of technical or professional languages including educational and legal terminology.
Numerical Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize mathematical formulas; to add and subtract;
multiply and divide; utilize decimals and percentages; and to apply the principles of descriptive
statistics statistical inference and statistical theory.
Form/Spatial Aptitude: Requires the ability to inspect items for proper length width and
shape.
Motor Coordination: Requires the ability to coordinate hands and eyes rapidly and accurately
in using office equipment.
Manual Dexterity: Requires the ability to handle a variety of items such as office equipment
and hand tools. Must have minimal levels of eye/hand/foot coordination.
Interpersonal Temperament: Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and
receiving instructions. Must be adaptable to performing under stress and when confronted with
emergency situations.
Physical Communication: Requires the ability to talk and hear: (Talking: expressing or
exchanging ideas by means of spoken words. Hearing: perceiving nature of sounds by ear.
Must be able to communicate via telephone.
Disclaimer
The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work
performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a
comprehensive inventory of all duties responsibilities and qualifications required of employees to this
job.
Employment Type
Full-Time
