About this role
Job Details
Title Social Worker
Description KANSAS CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Job Title: Social Worker – Student Intervention
Job Title Code: 01054
Salary Grade: S614 $54,163
Department: School Leadership
Reports To: Principal
FLSA Status: Exempt
PURPOSE OF JOB
To help students resolve such personal, emotional, and social problems as interfere with their adjustment to school and their capacity to enjoy the fullest benefits of the education offered during the regular school year as well as summer school.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Provide brief solution focused clinical interventions, conflict resolution and brokerage services to students, families and teachers.
- Perform services with parents as an integral part of the task of helping students, to increase the parents' understanding, their constructive participation in resolving their child's problems, and their knowledge and use of appropriate resources available. Provide class room consultation and behavior modification strategies to teachers.
- Provide referrals to all social service agencies to students, families and faculty as needed. Participate as a member of school treatment team.
- Monitor and work with homeless students' attendance to obtain a 95% attendance goal.
- Maintain accurate, complete and confidential consumer files. Present staff in-service or arrange for such in-services.
- Maintain and update current records on students as required by Kansas City Public Schools and State and keep Regional Registry updated.
- Assist unaccompanied youth in finding housing, food and additional social services.
- Provide monthly written status reports on each student.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
None
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Masters Degree in Social Work
- Minimum of two years experience in individual and small group clinical intervention.
- Previous experience working with Local, State or Federal Agencies.
- Strong written and oral communication skills.
- Strong organizational skills
- Ability to work flexible hours.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Multi-cultural and bi-lingual Spanish or Somali, based on population served.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This job requires that the employee be able to: sit, stand, walk, speak, hear, use hands, fingers, and reach with hands and fingers; bend, stoop, and lift objects of at least ten pounds.
TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT
Length of work year: 12 months.
Benefits
Retirement Programs, Health, and Dental Insurance are provided