SANGA CONSULTING INC is hiring: School Social Worker in Detroit

JOB TITLE: School Social Worker

REPORTS TO: Principal

EMPLOYED BY: Sanga Consulting, Inc.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Master’s degree in school social work with a school certification and relative licensure; full licensure, preferred

• Meet all requirements established by the Michigan Department of Education for School Social Workers

• Approval issued through the Office of Special Education

• Knowledge of best practice and research-based intervention practices delivered in a Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS/RTI)

• Successful experience working with at-risk students

• Knowledge of group dynamics, facilitation, and restorative practices

• Ability to analyze, implement, track and report intervention plans and strategies

• Spanish language fluency, preferred

• Submit to a criminal background check and be found without a record

JOB DESCRIPTION:

The School Social Worker is responsible for push-in, co-taught behavioral strategy instruction to build socio-emotional competency in all students. The School Social Worker will also provide behavioral support to students exhibiting at-risk behaviors a minimum of two times per week around key coping strategies and social skills for high-yield school relationships and subsequent academic growth.

PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Collaborates with classroom teachers to team-teach social-emotional skills/strategies and interventions through co-teaching and small group instruction to support academic progress for all children

• Prepares a variety of, primarily, small group lesson outlines and plans for quality, research-based behavioral/social-emotional strategies where students are actively engaged in learning

• Delivers quality lessons covering quality, research-based strategies where students are actively engaged in learning

• Coordinates collaborative planning with classroom teachers to support continuity and alignment of learning

• Works with staff/students to guide and support them in understanding the behavioral support process

• Meets with parents on an as-needed basis to provide community outreach support including traveling with parents to access resources, provide resume and job search support, and provide document translation as needed

• Utilizes community resources to identify and organize workshops for families aligned with parent needs/requests

• Works with students to develop plans for behavioral improvement

• Serves as an advocate for students to help resolve classroom issues; specifically, the School Social Worker works with students to help them understand their specific behavior needs and then teaches the students how to advocate for themselves with staff

• Researches interventions specific to individual caseload student needs and develops SMART goals

• Maintains data specific to the behavioral support process for caseload students in special education

• Communicates and forms partnerships with parents

• Develops and tracks data for Behavioral Intervention Plans

• Maintains confidentiality with all student records and information

• Supervises and monitors students during lunch periods as scheduled by the Assistant Principal or designee

• Performs other duties as assigned as related to the job description

To apply, please visit our school's website at https://www.theeaacademy.org/departments/human-resources/careers/