Trauma Informed School Social Worker

• Develop an intake and referral process to services that expands the safety net and assures that no student falls through the cracks.
• Coordinate training for all school personnel, focusing on the intake and referral process to mental health specialists.
• Assist schools in adopting the most successful prevention and intervention strategies that address student needs.
• Provide staff development on mental health and co-occurring disorders among student populations.
• Provide training to students, parents, and partners as requested and needed.
• Provide Tier 2 and 3 students with individualized, intensive counseling services within the school setting.
• Provide clinical psychotherapy services to students with trauma-related symptoms.
• Provide Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) school-based treatment.
• Provide training to teachers to facilitate the identification of student needs for intensive counseling services.
• Coordinate prevention activities with staff and partners for student engagement and empowerment.
• Provide technical support to schools and communities on mental health services, programming, and concerns.
• Perform other duties as requested.

? Physical Requirements: The work regularly requires standing and walking around the

classroom and school. It requires the ability to communicate effectively using speech, vision

, and hearing. The work requires the use of hands for simple grasping and fine manipulations.

The work often requires bending, squatting, reaching, with the ability to lift, carry, push, or pull

light weights and rarely, the lifting of weights above 30 pounds. The work occasionally

handles/works with biohazards and/or risks for potential job-related injury, such as those found

in a laboratory or shop environment. The work requires activities occasionally involving driving

automotive equipment.

? Data Conception: Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable,

functional, structural or composite characteristics (whether similar or divergent from obvious

standards) of data, people or things.

? Interpersonal Communication: Requires the ability to speak and/or signal people to convey

or exchange information. Includes receiving instructions, assignments, or directions to

subordinates or assistants.

? Language Ability: Requires the ability to read a variety of correspondence, reports, forms,

articles, proposals, contracts, etc. Requires the ability to prepare correspondence, reports,

forms, evaluations, contracts, policies, handbooks, budgets, etc., using prescribed formats and

conforming to all rules of punctuation, grammar, diction, and style. Requires the ability to speak

before groups of people with poise, voice control, and confidence.

? Intelligence: Requires the ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define

problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions; to interpret an extensive

variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagrammatic form; and to deal with several

abstract and concrete variables.

? Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures,

to give oral and written instructions. Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently in a

variety of technical or professional languages, including educational and legal terminology.

? Numerical Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize mathematical formulas; to add and subtract;

multiply and divide; utilize decimals and percentages; and apply the principles of descriptive

statistics, statistical inference, and statistical theory.

? Form/Spatial Aptitude: Requires the ability to inspect items for proper length, width, and

shape.

? Motor Coordination: Requires the ability to coordinate hands and eyes rapidly and accurately

in using office equipment.

? Manual Dexterity: Requires the ability to handle a variety of items such as office equipment

and hand tools. Must have minimal levels of eye/hand/foot coordination.

? Interpersonal Temperament: Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and

receiving instructions. Must be adaptable to performing under stress and when confronted with

emergency situations.

? Physical Communication: Requires the ability to talk and hear: (Talking: expressing or

exchanging ideas by means of spoken words. Hearing: perceiving the nature of sounds by ear.)

Must be able to communicate via telephone.

The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work

performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a

comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees for this

job.