<p>Position Type:</p> <p>Student Support Services/Social Worker</p> <p>Date Posted:</p> <p>3/3/2025</p> <p>Location:</p> <p>Nathan Hale Arts Magnet School</p> <p>&nbsp&nbspAdditional Information: Show/Hide</p> <p>Reports To: Director of Special Services, Principal/Director/Pathway Leader or designee</p> <p>Performance Evaluation: Annually by the building administrator or designee.</p> <p>Terms of Employment: Salary as determined by the Board of Education through negotiations. Click or tap here to enter text.</p> <p>Primary Function: To provide effective services within the domains of assessment, consultation, and intervention; to help children and youth succeed academically, socially, behaviorally, and emotionally. This positions will be serving students at both the middle school and high school and will require travel to both campuses.</p> <p>Typical Duties & Responsibilities:</p> <p>1.Assess students who are having social/emotional difficulties and develop an appropriate treatment plan using school and community resources. Uses a problem-solving framework, based on data from multiple sources, and including valid and reliable assessment techniques, as a foundation for decision making.</p> <ol start="2"> <li> <p>Makes recommendations for evidence-based interventions and instructional support strategies to develop academic, social and life skills. Integrates behavioral support and mental health services with academic and learning goals for children.</p> </li><li> <p>Works collaboratively with other school personnel to create and maintain a multi-tiered continuum of services. Engages in effective communication in order to plan, implement, and evaluate academic and mental health services.</p> </li><li> <p>Consider antecedents, consequences, functions, and potential causes of behavioral difficulties that may impede learning or socialization. Collaborates to develop and implement behavior change programs at the individual, group, classroom, or school-wide level.</p> </li><li> <p>Provides direct counseling, behavioral support, and indirect interventions through consultation for students who experience mental health problems that impair learning and/or socialization.</p> </li><li> <p>Participates as part of special education, 504, and problem-solving teams, providing consultation and support to both school staff and parents, to improve academic and social emotional-behavioral functioning.</p> </li><li> <p>Applies understanding of the influence of culture, background, and individual characteristics when collaborating with others, and when designing and implementing interventions, to achieve learning and behavioral outcomes.</p> </li><li> <p>Apply knowledge and skills to create and maintain safe, supportive, fair, and effective learning environments and enhance family-school collaboration for all students. Email To A Friend Print Version FMLA regulations require all employers to post the updated FMLA notice. Powered by applicant tracking, a product of Frontline Education.</p> </li><li> <p>Creates linkages between schools, families, and community providers, and helps to coordinate services when programming for children involves multiple agencies.</p> </li><li> <p>Participates in school crisis teams and uses data-based decision-making methods, problem solving strategies, consultation, collaboration, and direct services in the context of crisis prevention, preparation, response, and recovery.</p> </li><li> <p>Maintains records and documentation of services.</p> </li><li> <p>Performs other related tasks assigned by administration.</p> </li></ol> <p>Required Qualifications:</p> <ul> <li>Connecticut certification as a School Social Work </li><li>Such additional qualifications as the Board deems advisable. </li></ul> <p>Preferred Qualifications:</p> <ul> <li>Bilingual, English and Spanish </li></ul> <p>New London Public School District is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Candidates from diverse racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds are encouraged to apply.</p> <p>Attachment(s):</p> <ul> <li>Long Term Substitute School Social Worker.docx </li></ul>