Delta Schoolcraft Isd Social Worker Social Worker Intern 1Cf13D09E84A4B44A0431Aecbd8E46C4

POSITION SUMMARY

Service Provider will provide through consultation with professional staff and parents, or through direct intervention with the student, assistance in reducing social barriers preventing the student from participating in an appropriate educational experience in the least restrictive environment. Provide specifically designed individual and group treatment services to meet the unique needs of children with disabilities in accordance with the directives of the IEP Team. Provide mediation services to resolve conflicts regarding the student with disabilities and the home, school and community. Assist teachers with techniques for classroom interventions. Serve as a liaison between schools, parents, and other human service agencies as needed. Develop services and/or make referrals to address unmet needs of students and their families when such needs impair students’ adjustment or ability to receive maximum benefit from their school experience. Provide consultation and support services to school personnel. Provide services to parents to address factors relating to their child’s academic and social/emotional success.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Required Qualifications:

• B.S.W from an accredited Social Work Program
• Willing to pursue M.S.AW from a graduate school of Social Work Program approved by the State Board of Education (This process will be a cooperative agreement between the intern and the Delta-Schoolcraft ISD that includes tuition in exchange for a term of service agreement).

Desirable Qualifications:

• Experience in consultation strategies and working with community agencies.
• Experience in assessment, data collection, analysis, and interpretation.
• Experience in administering and interpreting a variety of assessments.
• Background in learning and behavior management.
• Experience in leading problem solving teams through data based decision making.
• Ability to clearly express ideas and concepts verbally and in writing.

K-12 BACKGROUND REQUIREMENTS (FINGERPRINTING)

The State of Michigan, as well as Edustaff, requires all individuals regularly providing instructional, food, custodial, transportation, counseling, or administrative services in a public or private school, or instructional or auxiliary services to special education students to be electronically printed under the SE – MI SCHOOL EMPLOYMENT (MCL 380.1230a) reason code.

For K-12 positions, if previously fingerprinted for MI School Employment, your fingerprint results must meet the following requirements in order to be valid:

• Fingerprints were taken after January 1, 2006.
• You have been regularly and continuously employed by a K-12 educational institution or its 3rd party staffing company since being printed.

If your fingerprints do not meet these requirements, you must use the Edustaff live scan request form to be fingerprinted. For a list of approved live scan vendors, please visit the Michigan State Police Live Scan vendor list at the following link: Live Scan Vendors. Other live scan sites may be available through the sheriff or local police departments. Fees vary depending on choice of location.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Assessment/Diagnostic:

• Serve as a member of the Multidisciplinary Diagnostic Team, providing supportive assessment data and consultation to team members and case management as assigned by the supervisor.
• Prepare and interpret social or developmental histories and assessments and also obtain parent/guardian input for the assessment process.
• Provide analysis and interpretation of information and data in oral and written reports. Interpret diagnostic findings to parents.
• Provide appropriate recipient parties with all written reports completed as a part of the referral/diagnostic process.
• Assist parents in the understanding of decisions, procedures, and other questions of concern affecting their children in the IEP/IFSP Team process.
• Participate in Individualized Educational Planning Team meetings, write and maintain specific measurable IEP/IFSP goals and objectives, and assist with the development of other IEP/IFSP goals and objectives.

Performance Responsibilities:

• Provide Special Education administration with necessary information required for monitoring activities.
• Regular, reliable attendance.
• Regular attendance at scheduled department/discipline meetings.
• Attend, upon request, weekly scheduled student staffing meetings.
• Complete and send home progress reports.
• Maintain ongoing contact with parents to assist them in the development of a realistic understanding of their child’s abilities, progress, and future goals.
• Provide recommendations for educational interventions to assist classroom personnel with student learning, achievement, and behavior.
• Create, review, analyze, and revise implementation plans and interventions.
• Use data based decision making to lead a problem-solving model in dealing with student academic and behavioral concerns.
• Consult with principals, staff members, and parents/guardians to assist students in making academic progress.
• Ability to develop and maintain acceptable professional relationships with school staff.
• Required to travel throughout Delta and Schoolcraft counties to service our local school districts and PSA.
• Adhere to the Michigan Code of Educational Ethics.

Records/Clerical:

• Complete timely service logs for all Medicaid eligible students on your caseload into the ISE system (if so assigned by the department administration).
• Maintain and submit monthly service/activity log.
• Maintain working files for caseload, including test protocol information.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the Director or Supervisor of Special Education

PHYSICAL AND COGNITIVE REQUIREMENTS

The requirements described below are representative of those necessary to perform the essential functions of the positions. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable qualifi