Social Worker/Counselor 

Bonfield GradeSchool

26-27 School Year

Reports to: Director of Special Education

SUMMARY: To help students achieve maximal social and emotional functioning by serving those children whose social, emotional, and /or behavioral problems interfere greatly with their ability to profit from school experience.

DUTIES

1. Provide consultation and in-service training to school personnel.
2. Responsible for providing the social-development study in a case study evaluation and for participating in the identification of those children who require social work intervention.
3. Assist student directly toward adjustment to school.
4. Responsible for servicing as a liaison between the home and the school, and for providing parental education and counseling as appropriate in relation to the child 's problem.
5. Facilitate the effective utilization of existing community resources to meet the needs of school children.
6. Keep informed of new developments in the field.
7. Participate in case conferences when referred students are involved, or as requested.
8. Attend multi-disciplinary staff conferences.
9. Participate with the administrative team regarding general principal, department head and district meetings.
10. Coordinate developmental screening for 3 and 4 year-old children.
11. The school social worker shall perform all duties necessary to the position and such other duties as may be fixed by the Director of Special Education.

QUALIFICATIONS

1. Master 's Degree in Social Work
2. Type 73 School Service Personnel Certificate
3. Be registered as a Certified Social Worker
4. Such alternative to the above qualifications as the Board of Education may find appropriate and acceptable.