Job description

FULL-TIME SCHOOL SOCIAL WORKER

• Required: Masters in Social Work (MSW)

Approx. Start: August 2023

Location: District Wide

Salary: According to MAEA Salary Schedule

Please apply on Marquette Area Public School's website: https://www.mapsnet.org/district_departments/central_administration/job_opportunities

MARQUETTE AREA PUBLIC SCHOOLS

POSITION DESCRIPTION

SCHOOL SOCIAL WORKER

REPORTS TO: Director of Special Education

RATIONALE: To help students resolve personal, emotional, and social problems that interfere with their adjustment to school and their capacity to enjoy the fullest benefits of the education offered them. To enlarge the educational experience of students by facilitating their best possible adjustment to school through a program of psychological services.

QUALIFICATIONS:

1. Master’s degree from a graduate school of social work program approved by the state board of education. The degree program shall consist of a 2-year graduate course or equivalent, including appropriate methods courses and a minimum of a 500 clock-hour supervised social work practicum.

2. In addition to the requirements of subrule (1), an applicant for temporary approval as a school social worker shall have submitted to the department of education a written recommendation for temporary approval from the approved university school of social work training program. Temporary approval shall be granted a school social worker for the initial year of service.

3. Full approval as a school social worker shall be contingent upon written documentation from the employing school district of satisfactory completion of 1 year as a school social worker with direction from a fully approved school social worker, or as otherwise authorized by the state board of education.

4. A previously approved school social worker who has not been employed as a school social worker in an approved program in Michigan for 5 or more consecutive years shall obtain re-approval from the state board of education as a condition of re-employment.

PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Identifies problems and situations interfering with the ability of children to make optimal use of the educational experience.

2. Provides a problem-solving service to children and their families through individual, group and community social work methods, so as to enable those served to cope with problems adversely affecting the ability of children to make optimal use of the educational experience.

3. Serves as liaison between the school, the home, and the community in building and maintaining positive relationships.

4. Coordinates and develops resources within and outside the school system for use by children, their families and school personnel.

5. Collaborates with principals, teachers and other school personnel to improve use of existing school programs and procedures, as well as to plan and implement new programs and procedures related to the educational, social, and emotional needs of children.

6. Coordinates or serves as a member of diagnostic teams and educational planning and placement committees and provides biological, psychological and sociological assessment information related to planning for children with adjustment problems.

7. Provides to the education planning and placement committees comprehensive, diagnostic evaluations of children suspected of being emotionally impaired, and collaborates with the educational planning and placement committees in the determination of eligibility of

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persons for programs and services for the emotionally impaired in accordance with R340.1706 and R340.1722 of the Michigan administrative code.

8. Serves as consultant to basic classroom program personnel for students with disabilities.

9. Provides direct therapy and intervention services for children identified as emotionally impaired / behaviorally challenged.

10. Participates with school staff in altering situations adversely affecting the personal, socio-emotional and academic development of children.

11. Fosters professional development through in-service education of school social work staff, including interns, paraprofessionals and volunteers, and through planning, conducting, and participating in workshops for these and other school personnel.

12. Performs evaluations as required by administrative rules for special education.

13. Consults and cooperates with school psychologists, guidance counselors, nurses, principals, and classroom teachers in assessing the mental and emotional health of the individual student having school difficulty and in evolving appropriate remedial plans.

14. Works closely with health, welfare, and police agencies to coordinate all services.

15. Keeps complete, up-to-date, and accurate records as required by law, policy and administrative regulations.

16. Works to prevent students from dropping out of school.

17. Confers with parents whenever necessary.

18. Works with teachers and other staff members to familiarize them with the general range of services offered by the Special Education Department, and to improve the educational prospects of students with IEP’s.

19. Advises administrators and faculty on the matters of student discipline.

20. Takes an active role in interpreting the school’s objectives to students, parents, and the community at large.

21. Implements policy on all aspects of the district’s psychological services and mental health programs.

22. Conducts regular meetings with professional staff and other interested parties.

23. Serves on the district’s central testing committee and such other committees involved in intelligence or psychological testing.

24. Participates in special consultations and case conferences with psychologists and other student services personnel.

25. Assists in the development of programs for teachers relating to child behavior, child development, and conferences with parents.

26. Assists in the development of programs for students.

27. Maintains liaison with community mental health clinics, special schools, MARESA and other resources offering therapeutic services.

28. Acts as a liaison between schools and consulting psychiatrists.

29. Serves as MAPS Homeless liaison.

30. Serves as MAPS Crisis Team Manager.

31. Keeps abreast of developments in the field and acts as a resource for Special Education staff and other personnel.

This description is intended to indicate the kinds of tasks and levels of work difficulty that will be required of positions that will be given this title and shall not be construed as declaring what the specific duties and responsibilities of any particular position shall be. It is not intended to limit or in any way modify the right of any supervisor to assign, direct, and control the work of employees under his/her supervision. The use of a particular expression or illustration describing duties shall not be held to exclude other duties not mentioned that are of similar kind or level of difficulty.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $41,010.00 - $71,358.00 per year

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Holidays
• Monday to Friday
• No weekends

Work Location: In person

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