Special Education Social Worker

Summit Management Consulting•Portage, MI

23h•Remote

About The Position

School social workers assist students with academic learning by providing strategic services that identify and address the social-emotional-environmental issues that interfere with the educational process. Working with parents/guardians, teachers, school principal/principal’s designee, and community-based resources, the school social worker implements strategies that promote students’ positive school adjustment.

Requirements

Master’s degree in School Social work and LMSW required.
Must possess or be eligible to possess a valid State of Michigan Certification and Approval as a School Social Worker.
Knowledge of principles, methods, and procedures for diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of physical and mental issues.
Understanding of group behavior and dynamics, societal trends and influences, ethnicity, and cultures.

Nice To Haves

Experience as a school social worker preferred.
Familiar with the basic concepts of positive youth development and experience working in diverse communities.

Responsibilities

Provide social work service time for students receiving special education.
Counsel individual students and student groups, regarding issues including mental health, poverty, substance abuse, physical abuse, rehabilitation, social adjustment, and childcare.
Interview students individually or with families, assessing their situations, capabilities, and problems to determine what services are required to meet their needs.
Serve as a liaison between school and students, homes, family services, child guidance clinics, courts, protective services, doctors, and other contacts, to help children who face problems such as disabilities, abuse, or poverty.
Consult with parents, teachers, and other school personnel to determine causes of truancy and misbehavior, and to implement solutions.
Participate as members of the IEP, IAT, PBIS and other school-based teams to develop interventions for promoting students’ academic success.
Counsel students whose behavior, school progress, or mental/physical impairment indicate a need for assistance, diagnosing students’ academic success.
Address legal issues, such as child abuse and discipline.
Demonstrate a relentless drive to improve the minds and lives of students in and out of school.
Provide consistent rewards and/or consequences for student behavior to ensure that students observe the school’s core values, high expectations, and code of conduct.
Implement activities to help students meet academic and social expectations.
Provide crisis intervention and behavior management to build students’ ability to meet the school’s high expectations.
Other duties as assigned.