Social Worker Early Intervention
New Bedford, NJ - USA
Job Summary
Looking for a rewarding career that makes a difference in childrens lives Look no further and join the team at Meeting Street! Meeting Street is a special place of learning where children of all abilities have the opportunities to reach their fullest potential.
Full-time employees receive:
- Competitive Pay
- Generous PTO
- 13 paid holidays
- Medical dental vision and MORE
Salary range: $50960 to $68486 annually
Meeting Street is currently looking for a Social Worker for 30 hours per week.
Duties:
- Uses approved instruments to provide developmental screening within their native language assessment and evaluation for children birth to three years of age as part of a multidisciplinary team to determine eligibility.
- Demonstrates competence in interpreting results of screening and evaluation in terms of the childs functional capabilities with an emphasis on self-help skills fine and gross motor development mobility sensory integration behavior play and oral-motor functioning and explains results to families in a mindful manner incorporating health literacy.
- Creates adaptation of the environment for infants or toddlers and selects designs and fabricates assistive devices to facilitate development and promote the acquisition of functional skills with respect to the familys culture and traditions.
- Develops and implements appropriate treatment plan (IFSP) with the family and EI team.
- Develops therapeutic activities and programs to prevent or minimize the impact of initial or future impairment delay in development or loss of functional ability.
Meeting Street believes the dignity of each person is paramount. We recognize that our communitys future strength rests firmly on our commitment to our values of respect compassion integrity inclusivity and excellence. To uphold these commitments we expect all employees to recognize and properly respond to racism and other forms of injustice.
It is our policy to recruit hire train transfer and promote employees and to ensure that all other employment practices (i.e. salary and benefits administration education and training programs and social and recreational programs) are administered without regard to race color religion marital status gender sexual preference or orientation gender expression or identity age national origin or ancestry legally recognized disability citizenship status genetic information veteran status military status socioeconomic background homelessness or any other characteristic or category protected by law. It is also our policy to protect employees and applicants from any coercion retaliation or discrimination for filing a complaint or assisting in any investigation pursuant to the equal opportunity laws.
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- Minimum of 1-year related experience working with infants and toddlers from birth to age 5.
- Licensed as a Social Worker in Massachusetts.
- Valid pediatric CPR and First Aid certification.
- Provisional Early Intervention licensure; completion of CEIS portfolio within three years of hire.
- Early Intervention services are provided in the childs Natural Environments which include the home childcare settings and the community or other immediate environments natural the child and familys environment.
- Employees must be able to provide reliable transportation to meet job needs as well as proof of a current drivers license.
- Able to get to the childs level climb stairs deal with weather conditions lift bending and squatting.
- Position hours: Monday: 9:00AM to 2:00PM; Tuesday: 11:30AM to 6:00PM; Wednesday: 9:00AM to 3:30PM; Thursday: 8:30AM to 2:30PM; Friday: 8:30AM to 2:30PM
Required Experience:
IC
About Company
Meeting Street is where children of all abilities thrive through individualized attention from highly trained professionals who work as a team to bring…