# Social Worker

**Company**: Rocketship Public Schools
**Location**: Washington, DC
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Job type**: Full-time
**Salary**: USD 85,000-110,000 per-year-salary
**Category**: Education
**Industry**: Education

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## Description

At Rocketship Public Schools, we believe in the infinite possibility of human potential. We believe that every student deserves the right to dream, to discover, and to develop their unique potential and it is our responsibility and our privilege to unleash the potential inside every Rocketeer we serve.

Rocketship Public Schools is looking for a dynamic, committed and flexible Social Worker to become part of a vibrant educational community. The Rocketship Social Worker will do whatever it takes to improve student achievement and ensure that students are progressing on their individual goals.

## Essential Functions

- Demonstrate positive, collaborative problem-solving orientation with students, parents and guardians, educators, administrators, community members, and colleagues

- Provide core services including: prevention, consultation, intervention, assessment, and counseling

- Help all stakeholders understand child development and how it affects student performance academically and social/emotionally

- Serve in a consultative role with designated personnel to offer prevention and intervention strategies related to learning and behavioral problems of students

- Assist in identifying needed community resources for students and makes appropriate referrals to resources to facilitate educational and behavioral interventions recommended for student success

- Deliver crisis response and intervention services to students, families and staff, when needed

- Provide group and individual therapy and classroom support to general education students

- Complete special education pre-referral paperwork and attend multidisciplinary team meetings

- Develop and monitor student responses to behavior intervention plans

- Conduct functional behavior assessments and social history evaluations

- Complete and monitor the pre-referral paperwork as it relates to the social/ emotional functioning of students

- Complete paperwork for students with 504 plans

## School and Community

- Serve as a school liaison to social service agencies and community

- Monitor and develop school-wide plans to address student attendance

- Participate in mediation, administrative reviews, hearings and due process proceedings, as needed

- Participate in disciplinary proceedings: expulsions, manifestations, and causation meetings

- Be available for Open Houses, Parent-Teacher Conferences and other events involving parents outside of normal operating hours

## Qualifications

- At least two years of Social Work experience

- Master's Degree in Social Work

- Licensure as a Social Worker by the District of Columbia Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE)

- Commitment to working with underserved students

- Experience working in an urban public school

- Pass a criminal background check

## Other Skills and Traits

- Unquestioned integrity and commitment to Rocketship DC's mission

- Passion for education and a desire to help Rocketship DC schools grow

## Skills

### Required
- Social Work
- prevention
- consultation
- intervention
- assessment
- counseling

### Nice to have
- Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker
- Experience working in an urban public school

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