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Berwyn South School District 100

Social Worker Job at Berwyn South School District 100 in Berwyn

Berwyn South School District 100, Berwyn, IL, US, 60402

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Position Type:
Student Support Services/Social Worker

Date Posted:
3/7/2025

Location:
Heritage Middle School

Date Available:
2025-2026 Job Description

TITLE: Social Worker

QUALIFICATIONS: Appropriate Illinois Certificate
Master of Social Work Degree
Ability to relate to students, staff, parents, the public and community service agencies.

JOB GOAL: To help students resolve personal, emotional and social adjustment problems that interfere with their capacity to derive the complete benefit of the education program.

REPORTS TO: Building Principal and Assistant Principal

PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Participate, plan and implement social emotional interventions, including but not limited to, Positive Behavior Intervention Supports (PBIS), restorative practices, and social emotional learning.

• Assist school personnel with crisis intervention for students and families in the school setting.

• Consults with the professional staff to help better understand and work with children or manage classes.

• Serves as a liaison between school, family, and community agencies.

• Practice group work with students.

• Works with parents as individuals or in groups.

• Participates in case conferences with professional staff.

• Follow and implement mandates, guidance and directives provided by the Special Education Department; including, but not limited to, the Special Education Coordinator and Special Education Director.

• Provides the social-developmental study in a case study evaluation and participate in the identification of those children who require social work intervention.

• Re-evaluates students in Special Education placement every third year.

• Consults with administrators and teachers on broad areas of mental health as they relate to elementary education.

• Provides individual case work to students.

• Organizes and participates in in-service training programs.

• Participates in professional social work organizations and attends conferences subject to Board approval.

• Other duties as assigned by the building principal or special education department.

TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT: Ten-month year. Salary and contract terms to be established by the Board of Education

EVALUATION: Performance of this job will be evaluated in accordance with provisions of the Board's policy on Evaluation of Professional Personnel