Metro Nashville Public Schools
Social Worker I LSSW - Pool 2022-23 SY - (Job Number: 21002220)
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Job Description
- Req#: 59563
!*!Job Title:
SOCIAL WORKER I LSSW
Revision Date:
Job Code:
87051
FLSA:
Exempt
Salary Plan:
Certificated
Revised By:
Demonica Coverson
Pay Grade:
Must be paid at MA+ level at minimum (see license section)
Comp Reviewed By:
EEO Category:
Other Professionals
EEO Code:
512
Work Location:
Local
(1) Primarily works at Bransford Office Campus
Duration; # of months
10 months
Job Summary (2-3 sentences describing job purpose): Reports to:
The School Social Worker works collaboratively with school-level team to address mental health concerns, behavioral concerns, positive behavioral support, academic, and classroom support. Additionally, School Social Workers serve as the liaison between schools, and parents, and coordinate with school-level-personnel to provide services to student groups and families to assist in removing and improving barriers to academic success.
Department Name:
Primary Job Duties/Responsibilities: List, in the order of importance or time spent, the essential duties/tasks performed by the position. This is not an exhaustive list and employees may be assigned additional duties by management as required. Regular and reliable attendance is an expectation of the job.
Job Duty/Resp. 1:
Provide clinical counseling to individuals, student groups and their families.
Job Duty/Resp. 2:
Provide case management/wrap-around services to students and their families.
Job Duty/Resp. 3:
Works collaboratively through Cluster Support Teams to reduce student truancy, improve student discipline and remove social barriers that impede learning.
Job Duty/Resp. 4:
Develop and assist in the implementation of plans for interventions with students that may include Crisis Intervention and Threat Assessments while working with District Crisis Teams.
Job Duty/Resp. 5:
Uses the Data Warehouse and SMS programs to assess the needs of students to enhance their school performance by providing optimal Social Work Services to students that show improved indicators in the areas of academics, attendance and discipline.
Job Duty/Resp. 6:
Provides Mental Health and Psychosocial assessments and evaluations of students referred and offer professional recommendations to multidisciplinary teams (schools, administrators, nurses, special education, etc.)
Job Duty/Resp. 7:
Coordinates joint conferences with Parents/School Personnel to integrate new and returning students who may be experiencing social problems.
Job Duty/Resp. 8:
Make home visits with other school personnel
Job Duty/Resp. 9:
Job Duty/Resp. 10:
Job Duty/Resp. 11:
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Education and Experience Requirements
Education (training/degree): Required minimum: Applicant must possess a Master’s degree in Social Work.
Licenses, Certifications or Registrations Required:
Experience: Three (3) years of experience working with children in a related field preferred but not required.
Skills Required:
General Skills, Responsibilities, Requirements, and Impacts
Data Responsibility:
Level 5: Coordinates or determines time, place, or sequence of operations or activities based on analysis of data and possibly executes determinations or reports on events.
People Responsibility:
Level 4: Mentors others by advising, counseling, or guiding them regarding problems that may be resolved by scientific or other professional principles.
Assets Responsibility:
Level 3: Requires some responsibility for achieving minor economies and/or preventing minor losses through the handling of or accounting for materials, tools, and vehicles.
Mathematical Requirements:
Level 2: Uses addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division; may compute ratios, rates, and percentages.
Communications Requirements:
Level 6: Reads journals and manuals; composes specialized reports/analysis; speaks to large groups of coworkers and people outside the organization.
Complexity of Work:
Level 7: Performs work involving the application of broad principles of professional management and leadership to solve new problems for which conventional solutions do not exist; requires sustained, intense concentration for accurate results
Impact of Decisions:
Level 5: Makes decisions with serious impact - affects most units in organization, and may affect citizens.
Equipment Usage (if applicable):
N/A
Safety of Others:
Level 2: Requires some responsibility for safety and health of others and/or for occasional enforcement of the standards of public safety or health.
Kronos Set Up Data:
Meal Deduction – Most Bransford office and district level employee have a meal deduction. They are scheduled 8.5 hours per day and get an hour lunch. Itinerants and retirees get a 30 minute lunch period and therefore do not have a meal deduction. All school based employees will not have a meal deduction.
Travel –
About the company
Metro Nashville Public Schools, or MNPS, is a school district that serves the city of Nashville, Tennessee and Davidson County.Other job opportunities