The posting
Wareham Elementary School seeks a full time Social Worker for an immediate opening who reports to the building principal and the Director of Student Services.
•Provides individual and group counseling for students with social/emotional/behavioral challenges in Wareham Public Schools •Collaborates with substantial separate staff, parent/guardians and administration to provide a comprehensive therapeutic learning environment and wrap around services •Coordinates Behavior Intervention Plans that address students' needs and behaviors and provide a means to help the students become more academically successful •Provides classroom and school-wide behavior management strategies •Under the supervision of the building principal and Director of Student Services, the Social Worker will provide diversified strategies and activities specifically designed for targeted student. • Assists staff in defining and measuring behavior; understanding principles of reinforcement; teaching new behavior; implementing strategies for weakening behavior; and identifying antecedents • Collaborates with staff to design Behavior Intervention Plans; addresses classroom organization, effective instruction, social skills instruction, and ethical issues; School-wide Positive Behavior Support; and factors that affect effectiveness including social validity and treatment integrity. • Works with individual teachers, groups of teachers and/or the entire staff on issues such as crisis intervention, learning and collaboration issues, and factors that can affect development and implementation of interventions • Promotes highly specialized positive behavior interventions in which "at risk" students thrive; behavior instruction that is explicit, intensive, accelerated and provides ample practice. • Uses ongoing assessments to maintain a record of student progress • Develops a repertoire of assessment strategies consistent with instructional goals, teaching methods, and individual student needs to more accurately assess student behavior skills and understandings • Models good assessment processes that assist students in assessing their own work and behavior • Provides recognition of a variety of student accomplishments and positive behaviors. •Works cooperatively with building administrators to promote positive student behavior by providing professional development that targets research, strategies and modeling on instructional practices to support teachers in their implementation of positive behavior support in their classrooms • Engages in on-going professional development to increase knowledge and skills of positive student behavior support for all students, targeted students and students who represent sub-group populations • Engages parents in the "student behavior intervention plan" process and empower parents by providing them with skills and techniques to support the positive behavior development of their child • Conducts conflict resolution and peer mediation sessions • Consults with administration and teachers • Attends professional development opportunities to maintain high level of skill and knowledge of current research and practices • Serves as a consultant to administrators, teachers, and parents • Organizes and schedules time commitments to meet demands of the job. • Complies with all safety policies, practices and procedures • Provides leadership to others through example and sharing of knowledge/skill • Participates in IEP meetings, writes goals and objectives for IEPs and reports on progress • Bills Medicaid for services as needed * Starting salary for DESE certified teachers with a Masters degree is $64,292 • Any other duties assigned by Wareham School principals, and Director of Student Services Must hold MA DESE Certification as a School Social Worker Preference will be given to those with additional licensure of LMHC, LICSW or LCSW Applicant must pass a CORI and fingerprinting



