School Social Worker

Community Leadership Academy•Commerce City, CO

8d•Onsite

About The Position

Community Leadership Academy and Victory Preparatory Academy are seeking a licensed School Social Worker who wants to help students succeed academically, socially, and emotionally. This is a highly student-centered position for someone who enjoys working directly with children and adolescents, partnering with families, and collaborating with a strong multidisciplinary school team. You will help students build the organization, self-management, emotional regulation, attendance, relationship, and problem-solving skills they need to participate successfully in school and become increasingly independent over time. The goal is straightforward: Help students get on track, stay on track, and develop the skills to increasingly manage their own success. The focus is not on doing things for students, but on teaching students strategies they can eventually use for themselves. This role supports students in building the skills, habits, and confidence they need to participate successfully in school as a whole. This position is central to our work to strengthen coordinated student supports across Community Leadership Academy and Victory Preparatory Academy. A major focus of this role is helping students develop practical skills that support success across every class. You will also help students strengthen social-emotional skills that support learning. Attendance challenges are often connected to other barriers. The School Social Worker will help identify those barriers and work with students and families to build practical strategies for improved attendance and engagement. Strong student support includes strong family partnerships. A strong student-support system should not depend on one person. You will help teachers and staff strengthen their ability to support students.

Requirements

Candidates must hold or be eligible to obtain the appropriate Colorado license or credential required to serve as a School Social Worker.
Strong communication skills.
Strong organization skills.
Strong documentation skills.
Strong collaboration skills.
Strong family-engagement skills.
Strong problem-solving skills.

Nice To Haves

Experience with school social work.
Experience with MTSS.
Experience with executive functioning.
Experience with attendance support.
Experience with special education.
Experience with student wellness.
Experience with social-emotional supports.
Experience with school-based intervention.

Responsibilities

Help students build organization, self-management, emotional regulation, attendance, relationship, and problem-solving skills.
Help students organize assignments and materials.
Develop better study routines with students.
Manage time and deadlines with students.
Help students recover from missing work.
Improve attendance and engagement.
Teach students how to ask for help appropriately.
Strengthen emotional regulation.
Build healthier peer relationships.
Improve communication and problem-solving skills.
Develop stronger routines.
Build confidence.
Help students become more independent at school.
Identify students who may benefit from targeted support.
Provide individual and small-group interventions.
Strengthen self-determination and self-advocacy.
Teach executive-functioning and organizational skills.
Support attendance and school engagement.
Build emotional regulation and self-management skills.
Monitor student progress.
Participate in MTSS and student-support problem solving.
Collaborate around applicable IEP, BIP, and student-support strategies.
Connect families with appropriate school and community resources.
Help staff use practical and consistent student-support strategies.
Strengthen coordination among school professionals.
Work with students on assignment tracking, planner and calendar use, time management, prioritization, task initiation and completion, attention and persistence, breaking larger assignments into manageable steps, study habits and test preparation, missing-work recovery, managing deadlines, preparation for class, and consistent school routines.
Help students strengthen emotional regulation, self-awareness, healthy coping strategies, conflict resolution, communication skills, peer relationships, personal boundaries, problem-solving, responsible decision-making, help-seeking, and confidence and school engagement.
Help identify barriers to attendance and work with students and families to build practical strategies for improved attendance, reduced tardiness, stronger school routines, increased classroom participation, greater connection to school, and increased responsibility for school success.
Build productive relationships with families.
Help families understand strategies being used at school.
Coordinate appropriate referrals when additional services are needed.
Help connect families with community resources.
Strengthen continuity between school and outside supports.
Collaborate with the Registered Nurse when health or wellness concerns affect successful school participation.
Help teachers and staff strengthen their ability to support students through practical consultation, consistent routines and strategies, regulation and de-escalation techniques, executive-functioning supports, early identification of student needs, strategies that build student independence, and professional learning and collaboration.

Benefits

$70,000 Salary
189-Day Work Calendar
9 consecutive days around Fall Break
9 consecutive days around Thanksgiving
17 consecutive days around Winter Break
A 4-day February weekend
9 consecutive days around Spring Break
Labor Day and Martin Luther King Jr. Day off
Summer beginning in May
No scheduled workdays in June
Predictable School-Based Hours 7:30 AM–4:00 PM
Staff Beverage Station
Full-time employees are eligible for the school’s employee benefits package.
Retirement benefits
Scheduled school holidays and breaks
Personal time off in accordance with school policy.
Opportunities for professional learning in school behavioral health, student wellness, MTSS, executive functioning, and school social work.