Uplift Michigan Online School is looking for a School Social Worker to join our team!
Summary/Objective
School Social Workers assist students with academic learning by providing strategic services that identify and address the social-emotional-environmental issues that interfere with the educational process. Working with parents/guardians, teachers, school principal/principal’s designee, and community-based resources, the school social worker implements strategies that promote students’ positive school adjustment.
Essential Functions
- Provide social work service time for students receiving special education.
- Counsel individual students and student groups, regarding issues including mental health, poverty, substance abuse, physical abuse, rehabilitation, social adjustment, and childcare.
- Interview students individually or with families, assessing their situations, capabilities, and problems to determine what services are required to meet their needs.
- Serve as a liaison between school and students, homes, family services, child guidance clinics, courts, protective services, doctors, and other contacts, to help children who face problems such as disabilities, abuse, or poverty.
- Consult with parents, teachers, and other school personnel to determine causes of problems such as truancy and misbehavior, and to implement solutions.
- Participate as members of the IEP, IAT, PBIS, and other school-based teams to develop interventions for promoting students’ academic success.
- Counsel students whose behavior, school progress, or mental/physical impairment indicates a need for assistance, diagnosing students’ academic success.
- Address legal issues, such as child abuse and discipline.
- Demonstrate a relentless drive to improve the minds and lives of students in and out of school.
- Provide consistent rewards and/or consequences for student behavior to ensure that students observe the school’s core values, high expectations, and code of conduct.
- Implement activities to help students meet academic and social expectations.
- Provide crisis intervention and behavior management to build students’ ability to meet the school’s high expectations.
- Knowledge of principles, methods, and procedures for diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of physical and mental issues.
- Understanding of group behavior and dynamics, societal trends and influences, ethnicity, and cultures.
- Other duties as assigned.
Schedule
This role requires work between 8 am and 4 pm, Monday through Friday, and additional hours as needed. This is a full-time salary position that requires 40 hours plus, if necessary to complete the required tasks. This is a remote position, but the hours are not flexible.
In-person commitments are a requirement. These include:
- State Testing
- Field trips
- Professional development
- Graduation
Required Education and Experience
Master’s degree in School Social work and LMSW required. Must possess or be eligible to possess a valid State of Michigan Certification and Approval as a School Social Worker. Experience as a school social worker preferred. Familiar with the basic concepts of positive youth development and experience working in diverse communities.
Physical Demands
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. This position is very active and requires standing, walking, bending, kneeling, stooping, crouching, crawling, and climbing all day. The employee must frequently lift and/or move items over 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
Offers benefits such as…
– Medical, dental, and vision benefits available.
– Volunteer Life Insurance
– Short Term Disability
– 401K and Roth
– And more!
