Social Worker 2024-2025 - South Bend, United States - Career Academy of South Bend, Inc

Career Academy of South Bend, Inc

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South Bend, United States

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

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Description

General Description:
The Social Worker will be responsible for supporting students and advocating for their emotional, mental, and physical wellbeing. Their duties include counseling students, connecting at-risk youth with helpful resources, and conducting home visits to provide additional support.

Qualifications
Master's Degree and licensed social worker.

Primary Responsibilities

City Connects Coordinator programming in grades 61
Assists teachers and parents in developing and implementing behavior management plans to remediate problem behaviors.
Assists students to improve their academic, personal, and social functioning.
Provides social skills, anger management, stress reduction or similar instruction to students experiencing social/emotional/behavioral problems that interfere with their learning or others' ability to learn.
Provides shortterm individual and group counseling to students experiencing social/emotional/behavioral problems that interfere with their learning or others' ability to learn. Provides information to families and assists them in accessing longterm or intensive counseling services, as needed

School Activities

School Social Worker is required to attend and/or participate in such other activities as directed by the Administrator such as: faculty meetings (before or after school hours), open houses, commencement exercises, chaperone student activities, provide guidance for students, participate on faculty committees, study and help resolve school problems.

Essential Skills and Abilities

Competency in the administration and interpretation of academic ability testing
Ability to use technology for documentation and preparation of professional materials
Ability to teach and assist students in behavioral mental health
Ability to communicate in written and oral forms, to parents and professionals
Ability to develop, implement, and evaluate student support plans
Ability to prioritize tasks, allocate time, and maintain schedule flexibility