Leavenworth U.S.D. #453 is currently seeking applications for a Social Worker for the2025-26 school year. Applicants should hold or be eligible for a valid KS teaching license with a School Counselor endorsement or a valid Kansas Social Worker License. Interested applicants should fill out the online application and attach any applicable documents.
Purpose: The Social Worker provides comprehensive school social work services to parents students and school staff addressing barriers that limit a student from receiving the full benefits from their educational experience.
Reports To: Building Principal
Supervises: NA
Salary: Based on Negotiated Agreement Salary Schedule
License: Licensed Social Worker by the Behavioral Science Regulatory Board
Qualifications
- Minimum of three years successful experience as a Social Worker or demonstration of qualities consistent with a master Social Worker
- A valid license with the Behavioral Science Regulatory Board in Social Work
- Masters degree in Social Work from an accredited college/university
- Possession of a valid drivers license
Essential Job Functions
- Provides social work to students and parents
- Makes referral to public or private agencies with appropriate follow-up
- Serves as a liaison between school family and community resources
- Serves as a source of information regarding community resources
- Updates and maintains appropriate confidential school records and provides written reports and communications
- Understands and has knowledge of potential services available to students and parents and proper processes for requesting such services
- Ability to think outside the box and develop plans and identify services to best serve and meet a students individual needs
- Proactively plans and prepares for beginning of the day student triage
- Organizes student groups
- Proactively schedules parent conferences visits and shares information pertaining to the student
- Ability to access the student and provide support and assistance the student after an incident has occurred
- Participate in the SIT process as necessary
- Ability to work with and collaborate with The Guidance Center
- Willing to travel locally using own transportation (mileage reimbursed) which includes the ability to conduct home visits as a method to access the family and lead interviews in response to school referrals
Physical Requirements/Environmental Conditions
- Ability to sit and stand for prolonged periods of time
- Ability to enter data into a computer to see and read a computer screen and printed material with or without vision aids
- Ability to hear and understand speech at normal classroom levels outdoors and on the telephone
- Ability to speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly in normal classrooms outdoors and on the telephone
- Ability to travel between work locations
- Physical agility to lift up to 25 pounds to shoulder height and 50 pounds to waist height
- Ability to bend stoop sit on the floor climb stairs walk and reach overhead
- Regular attendance and/or physical presence at the job.
General Responsibilities
- Contributes to safe and orderly work areas
- Works to help ensure student achievement
- Builds positive school/community relations
- Works to develop constructive peer and student relationships
- Works to develop effective and efficient performance
- Practices responsible fiscal facility and resource management
- Models positive professional attributes
- Sees that district policies are observed during all activities
- Keeps abreast of new information innovative ideas and techniques
- Obtains advance approval of the Principal for all activities and expenditures
- Adheres to all District policies and procedures including the USD453 Negotiated Agreement
- Adheres to all district health and safety policies including all precautions of the Bloodborne Pathogens Exposure Control Plan
- Other duties as assigned by the Superintendent or other Administrative Staff
Contract Length: 186 Days