SY 2025-2026 Licensed Social Worker

Job Description

Job Description

Description : JOB DESCRIPTION :

Social Worker

Gestalt Community Schools

SUMMARY

In partnership with Gestalt Community Schools, the Social Worker actively supports school leadership teams, support staff, and school staff to provide therapeutic services to individual scholars and scholar groups to assist in reducing social, emotional, and behavioral barriers that impede learning. The Social Worker is responsible for implementing educational programs; assessing problems and determining appropriate types and methods of treatment; implementing intervention methodologies; establishing processes to support mental health in an educational setting (i.e. supporting T1, T2, and T3); development and implementation of various protocols and systems to ensure social and emotional development; in addition to functioning in such areas as counseling, protective services, and family services.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES

• Promote the general well-being of scholars.
• Use web-based data systems or programs to assess the needs of scholars to enhance their school performance.
• Offer mentioning and suggestions for teachers and other school personnel.
• Collaborate and provide professional recommendations to multidisciplinary support teams and scholar support teams.
• Assist and provide crisis intervention and threat assessments for scholars in crisis.
• Conduct home visits as a method to access the family and conduct interviews in response to school referrals.
• Provide direct services via case management to scholars.
• Develop and provide professional development to individual schools regarding school-related concerns, educational-related, and mental-health related needs of scholars.
• Participate and collaborate with a school’s positive behavior intervention support (Acknowledgement and Reward System) teams which is a component of the multi-tiered system of support.
• Assist in the coordination of the Response to Intervention-Behavior Framework (RTI-B) which is a component of the multi-tiered system of support.
• Consult with doctors, therapists and medical professionals including external partners
• Administer social services that supports and protects scholar.
• Other duties as assigned SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY

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