Full time- School Social Worker Job-Virtual –Wayne, PA

We are seeking a qualified School Social Worker for a school-based position located near Wayne, PA. This position is full-time, 40 hours per week for the 2022-2023 school year.

The School Social Worker will be working with a K-12 grade caseload and will be providing services that may include:

• Facilitate team meetings with the identified student’s teachers and parents for the purpose of completing a Functional Behavioral Assessment.
• Work with the treatment team (Behavioral Health Technician and Mobile Therapist) to design Behavior Interventions Plans; address classroom organization, effective instruction, social skills instruction, and ethical issues; School-wide Positive Behavioral Support; and factors that affect effectiveness including social validity and treatment integrity.
• Work with individual teachers, groups of teachers and/or the entire staff on issues such as: crisis intervention, learning and collaboration issues, and factors that can affect development and implementation of interventions.
• Provide clinical supervision for the assigned Behavioral Health Technicians, providing guidance and support in delivery of services.
• Promote highly specialized positive behavior interventions in which “at risk” students thrive.
• Use ongoing assessments to maintain a record of student progress.
• Develop a repertoire of assessment strategies consistent with instructional goals, teaching methods, and individual student needs to more accurately assess student behavior skills and understandings.
• Regard assessment as a joint venture through which both student and teacher understanding is enhanced.
• Create fair and equitable assessments to assess higher-order thinking and problem solving as well as individual skills, knowledge, and understandings.
• Model good assessment processes that assist students in assessing their own work and behavior.
• Provide recognition of a variety of student accomplishments and positive behaviors.
• Work cooperatively with building administrators to promote positive student behavior by providing professional development that targets research, strategies and modeling of instructional practices to support teachers in their implementation of positive behavior support in their classrooms.
• Continually supervise students to ensure a safe, non-threatening, nurturing environment where students can thrive..

Day to Day:

• Mild to moderate caseload, K-12
• Full 2022-2023 school year

Requirements:

• Master’s in social work from an accredited college
• Must hold PA SSW License Cert.
• Must have PA PEL Cert.
• School-based experience is preferred but not required

To Apply:

National Hiring Manager
(813)-906-2293