Family and Student Specialist PreK-2 (Social Worker)
Family and Student Specialist PreK-2 (Social Worker)
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25-09-2025
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Job Description
Family and Student Specialist Job Description
Hired by the Executive Director and The Principal
Responsibilities:
Scholar and Family Work
- Provide wrap around services to scholars and families in assigned grades.
- Respond to and alleviate crises for scholars and families by following trauma protocol.
- Respond to Mental Health Crises develop Safety Assessment Plans and involve family and outside agencies as needed.
- Provide individual check in and group counseling to assigned scholars
- Provide services to retention and new scholars at the beginning of the year.
- Use DESSA data to guide individual and group counseling work.
- Support with behavior and problem solving on assigned grade level bands
- Support with recruitment registration and enrollment of incoming scholars
- Develop family partnerships through regular communication and provide linkages to community services and resources.
- Work with high needs families to ensure improved attendance and stabilization of the family by providing family coaching.
- Support families around decisions with CSE and support appointments/meetings as needed.
- Support with family education (individual and workshops) around Special Education and mental health topics.
- Make referrals to outside services as needed and follow-up on referrals.
- Participate in Family Council to increase family voice within the community.
- Monitor attendance and correspond with families according to Attendance Policy.
- Conduct home visits and community visits before the school year starts and during the year as necessary.
- Provide attendance coaching to selected families/scholars and track data monitor improvement.
- Organize and lead at least 2 family events during the school year and support with school wide activities (eg. color run Scholastic Book Fair).
Classroom
- Develop scope and sequence and unit plans for weekly SELT lessons.
- Teach weekly SELT lessons in assigned classrooms.
- Work collaboratively with teachers to plan and execute Social Emotional Learning time lessons.
- Ensure that unit topics and Havens SE approach is infused into the classroom and school wide community.
- Coordinate with instructional and behavioral staff on developing maintaining and evaluating behavioral plans for in-classroom and out-of-classroom behaviors.
- Support teachers as per trauma protocol in understanding impact of trauma and attachment in their classrooms.
Other
- Encourage students positive interactions with other students and adults
- Value and promote peaceful conflict resolution and creative and authentic problem solving; Uphold the schools System of Logical Consequences; Engage in effective and appropriate classroom management
- Keep an organized workspace
- Support the development of Associate Teachers and other colleagues
- Maintain and communicate high academic and personal expectations for all students with families support staff specialty teachers and leaders
- Stay current with regard to education literature
- Participate in a variety of staff development programs including a yearly individualized professional development plan two-week summer PD and individual PD sessions
- Participate in developing and meeting the goals of an individualized professional development plan
- Uphold and promote the schools mission and vision
- Perform other duties as needed to support the ongoing development of Haven Academy (e.g. Lunch and/or recess duty tutoring etc)
Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority
Employment Type
Full-Time
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