School Social Worker at William A. Diggs Elementary School

• Terms of Employment: 10-MONTH
• Exemption Status: EXEMPT
• EACC Salary Scale RS1_MA

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Education and Work Experience

• Master’s Degree in Social Work required.
• LCSW-C Certified Social Worker, preferred.
• Must be licensed by Maryland State Board of Social Worker Examiners prior to appointment.

• A Maryland State Department of Education professional certificate as a School Social Worker, preferred.

• Two years post-Master’s experience providing clinical social work services in a clinical setting dealing with children/adolescents and their families, preferred.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to speak and write effectively.
• Evidence of exemplary human relations skills.
• Demonstrated ability to plan and organize accordingly.
• Demonstrated knowledge of appropriate counseling skills.

Essential Job Functions

• Provides individual and small group guidance with students and parents to development educational and career plans.

• Offers responsive services to meet the needs and concerns of individual students and to provide support during crisis situations.

• Acts as a consultant to educational staff and parents in creating plans to meet student needs. Provides professional development on a variety of issues related to student success and effective parenting.

• Develops an effective referral service that utilizes system-wide and community resources.

• Works collaboratively with school and system staff to develop both prevention-based and responsive programming and services.

• Supports the planning and implementation of school-based and system-wide initiatives.

• Serves as an active and prepared member of the student support team (SST) and participates in IEP and 504 meetings as needed.

• Uses data to evaluate the effectiveness of the counseling program and to guide future program direction.

• Uses data to assess student success and to identify areas in need of attention.

• Utilizes an organized system for monitoring student progress and communicating this progress to students and parents.

• Maintains communications and acts as a liaison with parents, parent groups, student groups, civic associations, and other community organizations.

• Takes a leadership role in providing an inviting environment that offers opportunities for all students to be successful.

• Works closely to keep administration informed of issues impacting student academic achievement as well as other aspects of the school environment.

Environmental Factors & Physical Requirements

The environmental factors and/or physical requirements of this position include the following: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to have ordinary ambulatory skills sufficient to visit other locations; and the ability to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, and manipulate (lift, carry, move) light to medium weights of 10-50 pounds.

Requires good hand-eye coordination, arm, hand and finger dexterity, including ability to grasp, and visual acuity to use a keyboard. The employee frequently is required to sit, reach with hands and arms, talk and hear.

Charles County Public Schools reserves the right to re-advertise and modify the content of vacancy announcements at any time; however, this may be the only notice for this position during the noted advertisement period.

The Charles County public school system does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age or disability in its programs, activities or employment practices.

For inquiries, please contact Michael Blanchard, PsyD, Title IX/ADA/Section 504 Coordinator (students) or Nikial M. Majors, Title IX/ADA/Section 504 coordinator (employees/ adults), at Charles County Public Schools, Jesse L. Starkey Administration Building, P.O. Box 2770, La Plata, MD 20646;

301-932-6610/301-870-3814. For special accommodations call 301-934-7230 or TDD 1-800- 735-2258 two weeks prior to the event.