What are the responsibilities and job description for the Social Worker position at West Delaware County Community School District?
West Delaware Lambert Elementary School is seeking applicants for a Social Worker to start in August 2025.
Qualifications:
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Social Work, Human Service, Education, or a related field is required.
- School social work degree or licensure preferred.
- Experience with youth programming and/or community services preferred.
- Such alternatives as the Board may find acceptable.
- Serve as a member or leader of the building team in developing and overseeing successful tiered support systems to serve all students in grades K-4 and identify those in need of Tier 2 and Tier 3 supports in the area of Social-Emotional, Behavioral, and Mental Health.
- Serve as a liaison between families, school, and community agencies to provide interventions for overcoming a broad range of barriers to school success.
- Assist the school team in providing direct service to students with social-emotional or behavioral needs.
- Collaborate regularly with other professional staff members to identify academic and social/emotional/behavioral goals, monitor student progress, and design intervention to improve achievement.
- Provide assessment and intervention services for individuals and/or groups.
- Identify or develop programming to address barriers to school success, including but not limited to social skills training or anger management.
- Make provision for being available to students and parents for education-related purposes outside the instructional day when required or requested to do so under reasonable terms.
- Maintain professional competence through professional development activities provided by the district and in self-selected professional growth activities.
- Provide active, effective communication and positive relationships with students, parents, community members, staff and administration.
- Demonstrate awareness of and sensitivity to the unique social, cultural, and economic circumstances for students and their racial/ethnic, gender, age, physical and learning differences.
- In collaboration with counselors and administrators, coordinate services with community agencies and assist the family in utilizing these services.
- Use and integrate technology effectively in daily work.
- Maintain confidentiality of student and family data and information.
- Maintain accurate, complete, and correct records as required by law, district policy, and administrative regulation, and protect the confidentiality of the records.
- Attend meetings as scheduled by the Building Principal, Director of Student Services, or Superintendent.
- Contract Length: 197 days of service. Early out every Wednesday for professional development and teacher collaboration. Work day is 7:45-3:45.
- Salary: $55,000
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Benefits:
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Insurance:
- Single or family coverage and between multiple health insurance options
- $50,000 term life insurance
- Coverage will begin the first day of the month following the beginning of the contract
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Flex Benefits Program:
- Flexible spending accounts allow you to save part of your paycheck, before taxes, to pay for eligible costs throughout the year.
- Iowa Public Employees Retirement System (IPERS) is a benefit pension plan. Both the district and the employee contribute to IPERS at a contribution rate of 6.29% member and 9.44% employer.
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Insurance:
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Available Leave
- Sick days
- Personal days
- Critical Illness or Death in Family
- 6 paid holidays
- Possible Loan Repayment Program (Information from Iowa Department of Education website)
Salary : $55,000
