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Position Title: IMPS School Social Worker
REPORTS TO: Building Principal YEAR: 2026-2027 WORK DAYS: 182
JOB DESCRIPTION: School Social Worker – The Iron Mountain Public Schools Social Worker-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.
Responsibilities:
• Provide Special Education administration with necessary information required for monitoring activities.
• Regular, reliable attendance at work and at scheduled department/discipline meetings.
• Attend, upon request, weekly scheduled student staffing meetings and scheduled PBIS and/or BHAT 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.
• Provide related services for mental health support for students in crisis.
• Create, review, analyze, and revise implementation plans and interventions.
• Use data-based decision-making to lead a problem-solving model for student academic and behavioral concerns.
• Perform Functional Behavior Assessments (FBA’s) and lead the development, implementation, and monitoring of such plans • Consult with principals, staff members, and parents/guardians to help students make academic progress.
• Ability to develop and maintain acceptable relationships with school staff.
Qualifications:
• Temporary or Full Approval as a School Social Worker in Michigan.
• ABA, BCBA, or related fields of study and certification will be considered.
• Knowledge and experience in identifying students with disabilities.
• Knowledge of special education law.
• 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.
• Experience in developing academic and behavioral interventions.
• Background in learning and behavior management.
• Experience in leading problem-solving teams through data-based decision-making.
• Experience with training and monitoring the implementation of a variety of research-based intervention programs.
• Ability to clearly express ideas and concepts verbally and in writing.
Assessment/Diagnostic:
• Conduct comprehensive evaluations for determining special education eligibility.
• Complete all evaluation reports in a timely manner consistent with the DIISD process and procedural mandates.
• Serve as a member of the Multidisciplinary Diagnostic Team, providing supportive assessment data and consultation to team members and case management as assigned by supervisor.
• Prepare and interpret social or developmental histories and assessments and also obtain parent/guardian input for the assessment process
• Utilize a variety of assessments to determine the need for special education services.
• 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 and 504 team meetings and will assist in writing and maintaining specific measurable IEP/IFSP/504 goals, objectives, and accommodations.
Working Environment/Conditions:
• This position works in a variety of settings, including classrooms and outdoors, and may experience heat or cold extremes as well as fumes, odors, dust; noise level moderate to loud.
Right to Revise:
• This Job Description is not meant to be all-inclusive, and the School reserves the right to revise this job description as necessary without advance notice. The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees, and are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. Furthermore, they do not establish a contract for employment and are subject to change at the discretion of the employer without notice.
Education: Master of Social Work (M.S.W.) from a graduate school of Social Work Program approved by the State Board of Education. ABA, BCBA, or related fields of study and certification will be considered.
Continuing Education Training: State of Michigan Continuing Education Clock Hour Requirements
Certificate & Licenses:
• Valid Michigan Department of Education license.
Clearances: Fingerprint clearance – Criminal Background check clearance
