Central Office / Education Center

Closing Date:
10/26/2018

   School Culture and Safety
School Social Worker
Grant Funded One Year Position - Total of 6 positions

ABOUT CPS:
Cincinnati Public Schools serves 35,000 students preschool to 12th grade in over 62 schools across a 90-square-mile district in Southwest Ohio. Cincinnati Public Schools is the best-performing large urban district in Ohio and ranks among the top 2 percent of Ohio districts for students' learning and growth and offers families high-quality school choices and academic programs.
The district's innovative approach to education, its investment in effective and caring educators and employees, and vast array of collaborative partnerships have accelerated school performance to the highest level in decades - ensuring that students in preschool to 12th grade thrive and graduate prepared for successful lives in the 21st century.
Cincinnati Public is looking for creative, innovative, passionate, problem-solvers to join our team. We seek to have a positive impact on our children and families every day and are looking for staff members who want to not only do an excellent job with their career field but also serve as a role model for the children in CPS. We invite you to become a member of our CPS work family.
JOB SUMMARY:
As a vital part of Cincinnati Public School's overall goal of supporting social emotional development for each student, the School Culture and Safety Social Worker is responsible for supporting Positive Behavior Intervention Supports (PBIS) in assigned school(s). To this aim, the School Culture and Safety SW will serve as the building PBIS liaison between district administration and building staff, ensuring programs and resources are meeting expectations and that outcomes are consistently tracked. Services will include consulting with PBIS teams, ongoing coaching, staff development, implementing social emotional learning programs, ensuring program fidelity, and collecting behavior data.

The overarching goal of this initiative is to decrease negative behavior incidents and increase student engagement and achievement by creating a safe, stable, and supportive environment in which students can excel.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 4 year degree in Social Work or related field
• LISW required
• Experience working in a school setting.
• PBIS training preferred.
• Demonstrated knowledge of mental health, child mental health community resources, working with families in poverty, working with diverse populations, and trauma-informed care.
• Experience implementing evidence-based social emotional programs with small groups of students.
• Willingness to embrace systems-level work in positive school culture practices.
• Sound understanding behavioral data collection and assessment.
• Ability to provide ongoing consultative support to school teams on PBIS.

REPORTS TO: School Culture and Safety Manager

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Serve as the liaison between district PBIS team and school teams. Works collaboratively with district personnel, building administration, teachers, parents, and students.
• Assist and support the implementation of PBIS through consultation, ongoing coaching, and classroom support.
• Support, coordinate, and provide staff training related to social-emotional learning, classroom management, and anti-bullying, through formal trainings, team meetings, written communications and ad hoc conversations.
• Implement an evidence-based social emotional learning curriculum with small groups of students.
• Schedule classroom observation and consultation visits at a frequency based upon the needs of the classroom and program in order to ensure PBIS fidelity.

• Implements systems to share and track information.
• Furthers professional growth by seeking feedback, reflecting on and assessing own practice.
• Demonstrates the ability to relate to persons with diverse educational, socio-economic and ethnic background and demonstrates ability to share information objectively and non-judgmentally.
• Performs other duties as assigned to assist in providing services to children and families.
• Participate in regularly scheduled staff meetings.

OTHER PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Adhere to professional ethics, boundaries, and confidentiality.
• Communicate in an effective and timely manner.
• Adapt to handle stressful situations.
• Establish positive relationships among stakeholders.
• Ability to be flexible with daily schedules and responsibilities.
• Fluency with Microsoft Office, Google Apps, email, and other relevant technology.

SALARY RANGE:

Salary: School Social Worker per CFT Agreement

All interested applicants should submit a resume and application online at:
http://www.cps-k12.org/ , click on employment, then Apply Online.

The intent of this job description is to provide a representative level of the types of duties and responsibilities that will be required of positions given this title and shall not be construed as a declaration of the total of the specific duties and responsibilities of any particular position. Employees may be directed to perform job-related tasks other than those specifically presented in this description.

Cincinnati Public Schools is an equal opportunity employer and is subject to federal regulations pertaining to employment. The district has a continuing non-discrimination policy which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, or veteran status. We hire only United States citizens and aliens lawfully authorized to work in the United States.

CINCINNATI PUBLIC SCHOOLS IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER