What are the responsibilities and job description for the Long-term Social Worker Substitute position at Herscher Unit 2?
Long-term Social Worker/Counselor
Herscher Intermediate School
25-26 School year 1st Semester
Reports to: Director of Special Education
SUMMARY: To help students achieve maximal social and emotional functioning by serving those children whose social, emotional, and /or behavioral problems interfere greatly with their ability to profit from school experience.
DUTIES
- Provide consultation and in-service training to school personnel.
- Responsible for providing the social-development study in a case study evaluation and for participating in the identification of those children who require social work intervention.
- Assist student directly toward adjustment to school.
- Responsible for servicing as a liaison between the home and the school, and for providing parental education and counseling as appropriate in relation to the child 's problem.
- Facilitate the effective utilization of existing community resources to meet the needs of school children.
- Keep informed of new developments in the field.
- Participate in case conferences when referred students are involved, or as requested.
- Attend multi-disciplinary staff conferences.
- Participate with the administrative team regarding general principal, department head and district meetings.
- Coordinate developmental screening for 3 and 4 year-old children.
- The school social worker shall perform all duties necessary to the position and such other duties as may be fixed by the Director of Special Education.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Master 's Degree in Social Work
- Type 73 School Service Personnel Certificate
- Be registered as a Certified Social Worker
- Such alternative to the above qualifications as the Board of Education may find appropriate and acceptable.
