Send Resume to Date July 7 2025POINTS OF INTERESTFour day work week: Focus is open Monday through Thursday; Stable successful school environment with over 12 years of successful academic offerings Professional effective friendly staff and administration Administrative staff members are former teachersFulltime with excellent retirement benefits (STRS) health dental life and vision insurancePRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY:Promotes maximum development of all students by prevention/alleviation of problems that interfere with the tasks of learning through knowledge of human behavior social systems and social work skills. POSITION SUMMARYThe School Social Worker is a fulltime nonsupervisory position. The School Social Worker works to reduce barriers to education. The School Social Worker will work with the faculty staff community and family to assist students with social emotional behavioral and academic concerns. The School Social Worker will provide various individual and group services to meet the needs of the student population. The School Social Worker will also serve on the Administrative Team of the school and bring expertise to the educational process with an indepth understanding of the psychosocial development of students and how the influences of family community and cultural differences. The School Social Worker reports to the Supervisor of Support Services and the School Director. A School Social Worker or Licensed School Social Worker is responsible for supporting students and advocating for their emotional mental and physical wellbeing. Their duties include counseling students connecting atrisk youth with helpful resources assisting in the development and maintenance of the 504. and conducting home visits to provide additional support. ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONSUses assessment skills to determine the special needs of input for program planning and evaluation and contributes to the development of departmental and systemwide appropriate social work methods in situations affecting the students educational an advocacy role to ensure that the students educational social emotional and material needs are met by established laws rules and consultation and inservice experiences for teachers and staff and engages in the mutual exchange of information with community as a liaison between homeschool communities and promotes effective resource utilization and positive relations with various time resources and workload to meet responsibilities and maintains accurate case records and evidence of professional growth and development and adheres to a professional code of JOB FUNCTIONSMember of the administrative teamConduct an assessment of student needs and issuesDuties include promoting regular school attendance conducting home visits when needed advocating for studentsProvide culturally competent servicesConduct groups as needed for topics such as selfesteem anger management impulse control social skills pregnancy prevention parenting and substance abuseProvide crisis intervention services as neededProvide short/longterm case management services to individual students documenting as appropriateResource person and refer to community agencies as appropriate coordinating of servicesAssist in developing and implementing maternity plans for appropriate studentsReport suspected child abuse/neglect to appropriate authoritiesOversee and intervene in issues of attendance for students; assisting as needed to ensure daily attendancePromote parental involvement in the schoolsServe as a liaison between the school/family/communityParticipate in referrals and case management of students/families involved in the court systemIdentification of barriers to educational achievement