School Social Worker
The Ulster BOCES Instructional Services Department is seeking a licensed/certified School Social Worker for a full-time, 10-month position. Appropriate NYS License, Certification and fingerprinting required.
Ulster BOCES offers regionally competitive salary and benefits.
Salary starting at $67,765 per year.
To be legally employed in this position, you must possess a valid NYS teaching certificate.
Area of Interest: Administration and Pupil Personnel Services
Subject Area: Social Work
Grade Level: Pre K-12 - All Grades
Title: School Social Worker
Type of Certificate: Provisional or Permanent Certificate
General Responsibilities: To help students resolve such personal, emotional and social problems as they interfere with their adjustment to school and their capacity to enjoy the fullest benefits of the education offered them.
Work Schedule: 10 Month Schedule Monday through Friday
Specific Duties:
- Performs casework service with individual students to correct those personal, social, or emotional maladjustments related to their educational and social progress.
- Performs casework service 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.
- Consults and collaborates with other school personnel in gathering and giving information on a case, and in establishing and planning for respective roles in the modification of the student's behavior.
- Supervises the referral of students to, and serves as liaison with, such outside agencies as the Welfare Department, Child Placement Bureau, Juvenile Court, and the like, as appropriate.
- Makes home visits for the purpose of gathering helpful information on a student's background.
- Serves as liaison between home and school when considerable follow-up is necessary, as in welfare cases, foster home children, and disadvantaged students.
- Assists students directly toward adjustment to school.
- Keeps sufficient records of cases for use by school staff members and outside agencies when appropriate.
- Assumes other duties as assigned by the Supervisor.