Description

Position at IDEA Public Schools

Role Mission: Social Workers work directly with our at-risk scholars to ensure that they graduate from IDEA and go to and through college by providing them individualized emotional, behavioral, and mental health support. Social Workers manage a caseload of at-risk scholars and provide individual and group interventions to support them independently master coping skills to address and overcome mental, behavioral, and academic challenges. Social workers also support students and families with the removal of barriers to persistence, attendance, and academic success through connections to community resources.

What You'll Do -- Accountabilities

90% Persistence for scholars in caseload

• Partners with lead team members and teachers to identify at-risk students and create caseload
• Schedules individualized and group recurring sessions to address mental health needs.
• Establishes individualized counseling goals for scholars.
• Uses knowledge and understanding of the reciprocal influences of home, school, and community to intervene for scholar success via such practices as assessment, crisis intervention, home visits, conflict resolution, individual and group counseling, consultation, program development, dropout prevention and coordination of school and community services.
• Informs Lead Team of potential persistence concerns. Educates lead team on how to identify the caseload and is responsible to assign roles for lead team members for interventions with at-risk students.
• Design and/or lead professional development on crisis, trauma, positive behavioral prevention and intervention techniques and social-emotional skill development for applicable audiences (minimum 1 per quarter)
• Plan individual school and/or system-wide programs to promote a positive and caring school climate.
• Lead, or coordinate with community partnerships to present parent information sessions on crisis, trauma, parental support, behavioral support, or mental health support for families (minimum 1 per quarter).
• Design, coordinate, and or lead monthly parent training, workshops, or information sessions related to social-emotional, behavior, or community resource support (minimum 1 per quarter).
• Leads staff professional development related to self-care, trauma-informed practices, relevant developmental needs of students, and other SEL-related topics in coordination with other student support team members.

97.5% ADA for scholars in caseload

• Collaborates with Registrar to get daily list of absences to contact families.
• Contacts families as prescribed in escalation matrix to determine barriers to attendance and any resources needed.
• Utilizes the Mission List Tracker to communicate with families to figure out root cause of absenteeism and develop solutions to address concerns.
• Conducts home visits as necessary to collaborate with families and support attendance.

Earns an "A" on Social Work report card

• Collaborates with key stakeholders on campus to support implementation of mental health, social emotional learning, and counseling supports.
• Creates referral, intake, and termination campus protocol.
• Meets direct service requirements for both individuals and groups.
• Creates Quarterly Reports to demonstrate impact
• Campus meets student participation in both beginning and end of year Social Emotional Learning Survey
• Creates analysis report and presentation of bi-annual SEL Survey Data
• Facilitates 2 staff trainings (1 per semester)
• Facilitates 4 parent workshops (1 per quarter)

90% compliance: Documents 4 direct service hours a day in Apricot 360

• Documents all interventions and crises/critical incidents in district-wide documentation system.
• Collaborates with community agencies to coordinate services within the school system.
• Utilize Panorama Survey data twice a year to assess campus climate and culture.
• Member of crisis response team on the campus to provide and ensure student or family social/emotional needs are being met.
• Connects student and families to community resources to get the support needed. Is the liaison between community support person and campus to share information to wrap services around the student.

90% of assigned teachers use MTW curriculum with fidelity (as defined by students interact with video program 3 days a week)

• Co-Lead teacher and campus training on Move This World curriculum and implementation expectations with School Counselor/Student Success Advisor.
• Identify and utilize best practice strategies to invest and create a culture of excitement around the integration of an SEL curriculum in the daily schedule.
• Conduct regularly rotating observations of Move This World blocks using observation rubric. Provide teachers feedback on observation rubric at least 1x/month.
• Track curriculum progress and send campus weekly PTG MTW update with glows and grows.
• Conduct BOY and EOY assessment on SEL competencies, school climate, safety, and sense of belonging. Review data and create action steps to address campus needs.

We look for Team and Family who embody the following values and characteristics:

• Believes and is committed to our mission and being an agent of change: that all students are capable of getting to and through college
• Has demonstrated effective outcomes and results, and wants to be held accountable for them
• Has a propensity for action, willing to make mistakes by doing in order to learn and improve quickly
• Works with urgency and purpose to drive student outcomes
• Thrives in an entrepreneurial, high-growth environment; is comfortable with ambiguity and change
• Seeks and responds well to feedback, which is shared often and freely across all levels of the organization
• Works through silos and forges strong cross-departmental relationships in order to achieve outcomes
• We believe in education as a profession and hold ourselves to high level of conduct, professionalism and behaviors as models for our colleagues and students

What You Bring -- Competencies

Qualifications:

• Education: Master's degree in Social Work required
• Licensure: Social work license required
• Experience: Teaching experience preferred; Ability to write and speak Spanish preferred

Knowledge and Skills:

• Strong organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills
• Ability to adjust and adapt to a multitude of situations in the school environment
• Ability to build solid student and family relationships

What We Offer

Compensation:

Salaries for people entering this role typically fall between $55,063-$65,525, commensurate with relevant experience and qualifications and in alignment with internal equity. This role is also eligible for a performance bonus based on individual and organizational performance and goal attainment.

Other Benefits:

We offer a comprehensive benefits plan, covering the majority of the employee premium for the base medical plan and subsidizing the majority of costs for a spouse/domestic partner and children. Other benefits include dental and vision plans, disability, life insurance, parenting benefits, flexible spending account options, generous vacation time, com-muter benefits, referral bonuses, professional development, and a 403(b) plan. We also offer an inclusive environment where staff are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work every day. IDEA may offer a relocation stipend to defray the cost of moving for this role, if applicable.

To Apply

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About IDEA Public Schools

At IDEA Public Schools, we believe each and every child can go to college. Since 2000, IDEA Public Schools has grown from a small school with 150 students to the fastest-growing network of tuition-free, Pre-K-12 public charter schools in the United States.

IDEA Public Schools boasts national rankings on The Washington Post and U.S. News & World Report's top high schools lists. IDEA serves nearly 75,000 college-bound students in 137 schools across Texas, Southern Louisiana and Florida and is on-track to maintain its legacy of sending 100% of its graduates to college. Be on the lookout for IDEA schools opening near you-with new launches in Jacksonville, FL (2022). Cincinnati, OH (2022), and Arkansas (2023)!

When you choose to work at IDEA, you are part of our IDEA Team and Family. You will work alongside team members who set and reach ambitious goals every day, are excited to continue to grow with IDEA, and work relentlessly to make college for all a reality.

IDEA Public Schools does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, sex or disability, in admission or access to, or treatment of employment in its programs and activities. Any person having inquiries concerning the organization's compliance with the regulations implementing Title VI of Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section 504), or Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), may contact IDEA Human Resources at (956) 377-8000.