Posting: Special Education Social Worker- Eastpointe Community Schools
March 9, 2023
Eastpointe Community Schools
Special Education Social Worker
Position Description:
- To address the psychological and social well-being of students, ranging from PreSchool through Elementary.
- To provide information and counseling to help students, parents and school staff to work together in solving problems by communicating and providing referrals to other resources.
- Services are designed to assist families, students, and educational professionals in providing quality interventions, which allow students to reach their highest educational, developmental and social potential.
Minimum Job Qualifications:
- Fully certified as a School Social Worker in the state of Michigan, required
- Required SSW 310 Experience in a school setting with young children
- Preferred Ability to organize and effectively facilitate working with students in a group setting to meet their emotional needs
- Maintain accurate and confidential records
Essential Performance Responsibilities:
Responsible for direct and indirect intervention including:
- counseling on an individual, group, or family basis;
- consulting with administrators, teachers, parents, and other professionals about student problems and appropriate change strategies;
- networking with school programs and community agencies to obtain the highest possible student success.
Our Social Worker will skillfully demonstrate:
- Strong desire and ability to achieve outstanding student achievement results in a short amount of time
- Ability to build meaningful, caring relationships with students in order to exert academic press and influence
- Willingness to leverage the student support network to ensure that students’ social, emotional, nutritional and health needs are addressed
- Ability to motivate students and influence their behaviors
- Capacity to hold ongoing instructional-specific conversations designed to focus efforts on improving student learning
- Collaborative creation and execution of clear, logical instructional plans that produce strong results in student learning with classroom teachers
- Commitment to coordinate intervention instruction within and across grade levels to support learning of at risk students
- Aptitude to discuss subject specific content instruction and the drive to try out new ideas to improve student learning
- Capacity to align curriculum, instruction, and assessments while responding to the individual needs of students
- Competence to collect and analyze data to form instructional decisions
- Design and utilize formative assessments to modify and adjust instruction on a daily basis in collaboration with classroom and grade level teachers
- Development of organized routines, communicate clear expectations, and grow a positive school culture
- Building a professional environment that is one of mutual respect, teamwork, and accountability
- Ability to seek out knowledgeable peers, coaches or administrators for instructional support in the never ending quest to deliver the vision of high quality subject-specific instruction to increase achievement of highest risk students
A turnaround teacher has the confidence to lead and possesses the following competencies:
- Prioritize student-learning needs over the customs, routines, and established relationships that can stand in the way of necessary change
- Achieve results by taking initiative and reflecting and acting on lessons learned
- Maintain his/her drive for results by demonstrating persistence, directness, and the ability to monitor and plan ahead for increased student growth and efficient instruction for at risk students
- Commit to the relentless pursuit of increasing student learning for at risk students
- Skillfully challenging the status quo by thinking analytically and conceptually, as well as problem-solving as it pertains to at risk students
Selection Committee Evaluated By:
Supervising Administrator
Salary Data:
- As per Negotiated Agreement with the EFE
- Salary Range $40,000.00 / Per Year
More Information about Eastpointe Community Schools: www.eastpointeschools.org
Internal and external candidates please apply on applitrack https://www.applitrack.com/eds/onlineapp/