Position Summary: Under the direction of the Community School Director or their designee, provides mental health services to children, adolescents and their families using various social work methods, including individual, group and family therapy. These functions are performed under general supervision, necessitating the ability to exercise independent and sound judgment.

Essential Duties:

• Assesses patients' social and emotional needs (students, participants, members).
• Carry a caseload of 25 students
• Run Social Emotional Groups throughout the school year.
• Hold parent workshops based on community needs.
• Provide professional development training to staff and teachers.
• Provides direct counseling/social services to students referred by self, faculty, administration, and other school ancillary staff
• Work with Community School Director, Parent Engagement Coordinator and Youth Advocates to effectively implement attendance improvement strategies
• Work with Educational Leaders and Student Support Teams to implement RethinkED curriculum across both school communities to improve SEL learning opportunities for our students and staff
• Coordinates social work services and patient referrals between the program and other agencies providing social services in both the school and local community.
• Updates and maintains case records. Tracks and follows up on all referrals made in and out of school.
• Establishes referral network/linkages with outside agencies for both students and parents.
• Participates and occasionally presents at teacher meetings, assemblies, etc.
• Serves as an advocate for patient's rights within the school and serves as a mediator between parents, child, and school.
• Remains available for crisis intervention as the need arises.
• Ensures that all patients,(students, participants, members) visitors, guests, as well as coworkers, receive personalized, prompt attention and are treated with receptiveness, dignity, and respect, no matter how limited the contact.
• Attends administrative meetings (e.g. utilization reviews, case conferences administrative meetings).
• Participates with interdisciplinary team members in developing and implementing program policies and procedures and preventing crises.
• Attend weekly crisis team meetings with DOE staff.
• In-person collaboration is an essential function of the job
• Perform other duties as assigned at the discretion of the supervisor and/or Children's Aid.