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Social Worker - IDEA Valley View (22-23)

Employer
IDEA Public Schools
Location
Cincinnati, OH, United States
Salary
Competitive

Job Details

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. The goal is to work with a large group of at-risk scholars and have them independently master coping skills to address and overcome mental, behavioral, and academic challenges as well as 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.
  • 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)
  • 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)


97.5% Scholar ADA for scholars in caseload
  • Collaborates with Registrar to get daily list of absences to contact families.
  • Develops a tiered system to track infractions and have an action step for each infraction to be addressed.
  • Communicates with family to figure out root cause of absenteeism and develop solutions to address concerns


98% On Track to Graduate for scholars in caseload
  • Reviews grades with scholars in individual check ins to create an action plan to address concerns.
  • Collaborates with teachers of concern to develop a plan to address failing grades concerns.
  • Communicates with families regarding weekly progress as needed.

90% compliance: Documents 5 direct service hours a day in Apricot 360
  • Implements appropriate programs, groups and initiatives to target at-risk populations (according to the assessment of data).
  • Plan individual school and/or system-wide programs to promote a positive and caring school climate.
  • Collaborates with community agencies to coordinate services within the school system.
  • 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.
  • Students in Tier 3 of RTI process on caseload and will receive weekly, one-to-one support, per RTI intervention plan.
  • Utilize Panorama Survey data to assess campus climate and culture.
  • Leads and coordinates 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.
  • Documents all interventions and crises/critical incidents in district-wide documentation system.

90% of assigned teachers use MTW curriculum with fidelity (as defined by students interact with video program 4 days a week)
  • Lead teacher and campus training on Move This World curriculum and implementation expectations.
  • 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 daily 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

Please submit your application online through Jobvite. It's in your best interest to apply as soon as possible.

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.

Company

IDEA Public Schools believes that 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 currently serves nearly 66,000 college-bound students in 120 schools across Texas and Louisiana and is gearing up to open schools in Florida for the 2021-2022 school year.

Interested in learning more about working at IDEA Public Schools? 

Visit us at www.ideapublicschools.org/careers.

Company info
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Telephone
956-377-8000
Location
2115 W. Pike Blvd
Weslaco
TX
78596
US

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