School Social Worker

Position Type:
Special Education Certified/Social Worker

Date Posted:
5/18/2018

Location:
All Building

Date Available:
August 2018

Closing Date:
When Filled

  Geary County USD 475
Job Description

Classification: Certified
Division/Department:
Job Category: Special Education
FLSA:
Title: School Social Worker

Qualifications: *M.S. in Social Work and Kansas License to Practice

Reports To: Executive Director of Special Education

BASIC FUNCITON/PURPOSE
School social workers seek to be change agents in the schools they work by partnering with administrators, staff, and students around the areas of mental health, behavior, and social/emotional functioning. School social workers provide a variety of services for students and staff, advocate for the needs of students, and address system and environmental factors that could be contributing to negative academic outcomes.

CRITICAL SKILLS:

1. Ability to maintain regular and good work attendance and come to work on time.
2. Ability to work constructively and cooperatively with others.
3. Ability to respond to information requests in a courteous, timely and helpful manner.
4. Ability to manage job responsibilities while meeting established deadlines.
5. Ability to access, input, and retrieve information from a computer.
6. Ability to maintain confidentiality of student and staff information.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The employee performing the duties of this position is frequently required to walk, sit, talk, hear, bend, stoop, and reach. The employee may be occasionally required to manually lift, move, or carry up to 50 pounds. The employee is required to interact with staff and meet the demands of several different people. The employee is responsible for the work output of others. The employee occasionally works extended hours. Vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES
The candidate:

• Complete psychosocial assessments for initial IEP's, including completing a record review, social history, interviews, classroom observations, and standardized assessments (such as the BASC-2).
• Complete the social/emotional section on all IEP forms.
• Completes all necessary paperwork including, but not limited to: IEP and supporting documents, data collection, Medicaid and regular logs, assessment summaries
• Determine how much social work time each student needs upon completion of the psychosocial assessment.
• Write a social/emotional goal for the IEP if providing social work services
• Attend all IEP meetings for the students on your caseload.
• Update all social/emotional goals every 9 weeks.
• Collaborate with teachers on a daily basis to implement behavioral strategies and provide support as needed.
• Assist/Support teachers with determining appropriate consequences based on individual student needs.
• Assist/Support the teachers with interpreting behaviors (i.e. is the behavior a manifestation of the students disability or is it due to environmental factors or a combination of both?).
• Engage students, through discussion, that are having behavioral difficulties as they occur.
• Assist/Support teacher's process with students about their behavior.
• Provide resources and information regarding mental health and behaviors to teachers and paraprofessionals that is specific to individual students in the program.
• Assist/Support teachers with the training of paraprofessionals in behavioral areas.

• Provide weekly social work services as listed on the IEP.
• Social work services can be provided in individual meetings or group sessions.
• Each service should be individualized to address current student needs and the IEP goal as a whole.
• Monitors progress systematically, and adjusts interventions based on data showing effectiveness/ineffectiveness of interventions with families
• Maintain continuous communication with parents through home visits, phone calls, e-mail, parent meetings, etc.
• Work collaboratively with area agencies.
• Review progress toward IEP outcomes, re-evaluate and summarize progress, and revise IEP's within required timelines
• Demonstrate skills for accessing technology for communication and completion of job-related tasks
• Other duties as assigned by supervisor

Term of Employment: Teacher contract (+10 days)

Salary Range: Determined by placement on teacher salary schedule

Evaluation Frequency: Job performance will be evaluated a minimum of 1 time per year.
Updated 4-5-18

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Geary County USD #475 does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or age in its programs and/or activities and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups. For questions or complaints based on race, color, national origin, sex or age, please contact the USD 475 Director of Human Resources, 123 N. Eisenhower, Junction City, KS 66441. Telephone: 785.717.4000. For questions or complaints based on disability, please contact the USD 475 Director of Exceptional Student Services, 123 N. Eisenhower, Junction City, KS 66441. Telephone: 785.717.4000