Job Title: Special Education School 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 problem-solving as it pertains to at risk students

Selection Committee

Evaluated By: Supervising Administrator

Salary Data: per EFE Contract. Tentative agreement on a new salary schedule has been agreed to with the teacher association for 2025-26. 15 step schedule. Bachelor's lane: $49,350 - $80,483. Master's lane: $53,500 - $85,200, plus $3000 additional on each step for MA+30 or beyond.

More Information about Eastpointe Community Schools: www.eastpointeschools.org

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