Elementary Social Worker

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Summary / Duties

Provide a problem-solving service to children and their families. Serves as a member of diagnostic teams and members of educational planning and placement committees and provides biological, psychological, and sociological assessment information.

Job Goals

• Serve as counselor/consultant to students, parents, and teachers.
• Offer educational group work services to students.
• Offer casework services to children who have been referred and seem unable to adjust or conform to the school setting or management techniques.
• Participate as a member of the school personnel team and make written evaluations at multidisciplinary staffing.
• Make referrals of children or families to appropriate agencies when severe problems hinder adjustment.
• Conduct and assist in-service workshops training with teachers in continuing professional development.
• Confer with school administrators on cases and situations relative to children's adjustments to school experiences and realities of life.
• Collaborate in community planning for crisis intervention and participate with professional groups to reduce social problems.
• Write reports as necessary and exchange information with other agencies on behalf of students, when requested by parents.
  
  

Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Counseling/Social Work
• A Type 73 School Service Personnel Certificate
• Be registered as a Certified Counselor/Social Worker
• Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board of Education may find appropriate and acceptable.