Social Worker - Smyth Rd/Green Acres
Manchester School District
- New Hampshire
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Requirements as set by the State of New Hampshire Certification Authorities and Board of School Committee regulations
- State of NH Teacher Certification in Social Work or other approved certification status may be considered
To help students resolve personal, emotional, and social problems that interfere with their adjustments to school and their capacity to enjoy the fullest benefits of the education offered them.Responsibilities of the Position:
- 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 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 student’s behavior.
- Supervises the referral of students to, and serves as liaison with, such outside agencies as the Welfare Department, Child Placement Bureau, and Juvenile Court, 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.
- This is an affiliated (MEA) position which follows the terms of the teacher negotiated contract.
- This position is Grant Funded.