School Social Worker

Full Time
Detroit, MI 48216
Posted
Job description
JOB TITLE: School Social Worker at Escuela Avancemos Academy
REPORTS TO: Administration
EMPLOYED BY: Sanga Educational Partners

QUALIFICATIONS:
  • Master's degree in school work with a school certification and relative licensure; full licensure, is preferred.
  • Knowledge of best practice and research-based intervention practices delivered in a Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS/RTI).
  • Successful experience working with at-risk students.
  • Knowledge of group dynamics, facilitation, and restorative practices.
  • Ability to analyze, implement, track and report intervention plans and strategies.
  • Spanish language preferred.

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JOB SUMMARY: The School Social Worker is responsible for push-in, and co-taught behavioral strategy instruction to build socio-emotional competency in all students. The school social worker will also provide behavioral support to students exhibiting at-risk behaviors a minimum of two times per week around key coping strategies and social skills for high-yield school relationships and subsequent academic growth.

PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES:
  • Collaborates with classroom teachers to team teach social-emotional skills/strategies and interventions through co-teaching and small group instruction to support academic progress for all children.
  • Prepares a variety of, primarily, small group lesson outlines and plans for quality, research-based behavioral/social-emotional strategies where students are actively engaged in the learning.
  • Delivers quality lessons covering quality, research-based strategies where students are actively engaged in the learning.
  • Coordinates collaborative planning with classroom teachers to support continuity and alignment of learning.
  • Facilitate after-school restorative learning opportunities for identified students 1-2 times a week.
  • Work with staff/students to guide and support them in understanding the behavioral support process.
  • Meet with parents on an as-needed basis to provide community outreach support including traveling with parents to access resources, providing resume and job search support, and providing document translation as needed.
  • Utilize community resources to identify and organize workshops for families aligned with parent needs/requests.
  • Work with staff and students to develop plans for behavioral improvement.
  • Serve as an advocate for students to help resolve classroom issues.
  • Research interventions specific to individual caseload student needs and develop SMART goals.
  • Maintain data specific to the behavioral support process for caseload students in special education.
  • Serves as McKinney Vento Homeless Liaison and attends professional development offered by the local ISD or MDE.
  • Communicate and establishes effective working partnerships with families.
  • Develop and data tracking for Behavioral Intervention Plans.
  • Maintain confidentiality with all student records and information.
  • Supervise and monitor students during lunch periods as scheduled by the assistant principal or designee.
  • Perform other duties as assigned as related to the job description.

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