Special Education Clinician - Connors/Montello Elementary Schools

SUMMARY:The Special Ed Clinician plays an integral role in the school in assessment intervention family engagement consultation collaboration and leadership at all tiers of socialemotional intervention in the : $43350.73 $81769.12 Stipend (SY25/26)Lewiston Public Schools offers a robust employee benefits package for fulltime employees including: health insurance with up to 85% of the premium paid by the employer; dental vision life short and longterm disability insurance; flexible spending and dependent care accounts; Maine Public Employee 403(b) and 457 retirement plans; 15 paid sick days per year; tuition reimbursement and more!ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES (Other duties may be assigned)The clinician adheres to the ethics and values of the social work profession and uses their code of ethics to guide ethical decisionmaking. The clinician demonstrates the core values of service social justice dignity and worth of the person importance of human relationships integrity and clinician will have knowledge of and comply with all local state and federal mandates related to informed consent privacy and confidentiality access to records and access to education and special education as clinician conducts assessments of individuals families and systems/organizations with the goal of improving student social emotional behavioral and academic outcomes. They will use data and assessment to guide service delivery and evaluate their practice to improve and expand clinician understands and uses evidenceinformed practices in their interventions to enhance positive educational experiences. Interventions will be applied within the multitier framework including schoolwide prevention programs to teach positive behavior promote social emotional development and ensure a school climate conducive to learning; small group and shortterm interventions focused on improving early academic and socialemotional engagement to reduce problem behavior; and individual and longterm intervention to students with serious academic behavioral or socialemotional problems that have not responded to tier 1 or tier 2 clinician maintains accurate data and records that are relevant to planning implementation and evaluation of social work clinician serve as leaders and consultants to facilitate an understanding of factors in the home school and community that affect students educational experiences. The clinician provides training and engages parents school personnel and other professionals and community members in the removal of barriers to learning. The clinician provides leadership and collaboration in the implementation of comprehensive schoolbased and schoollinked programs to promote student wellbeing and positive academic clinician participates in individual and group supervision professional development and is part of the professional learning community to advance their skills and RESPONSIBILITIES:Provide BHP clinical supervision if assigned to a specialized program (i.e. selfcontained day treatment)QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS: To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential and/or EXPERIENCE:Masters degree from a graduate school of social work or counseling LICENSES REGISTRATIONS:LCSW LMSWcc LCPC LCPCcLANGUAGE SKILLS:Ability to read analyze and interpret general business periodicals professional journals technical procedures or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports business correspondence and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from individuals and ABILITY:Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written oral diagram or schedule SKILLS and ABILITIES: Existing knowledge of behavioral interventions and strategies and capable of sharing this knowledge to 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 performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to stand and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to walk. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds for example school supplies and books. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust 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 noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to Public Schools provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination of any type without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoff recall transfer leaves of absence compensation and training.