Job Title: Bilingual(Spanish) Social Worker
Start Date: 2024/2025 School Year
Work Hours: 37.5 Hours per week
Caseload: up to 50 K – 12th Grade students
Job Details:
Clarifi Staffing Solutions is looking for a talented Bilingual Social Worker contract assignments for the 2023/2024 school year near Chicago, IL! This is a fantastic opportunity to build upon your speech-language pathology skills while advancing your SLP career.
The school district is ready to interview and hire so apply today with an up-to-date resume for immediate consideration. Feel free to contact Clarifi Staffing Solutions with any questions about this and other Social Work opportunities.
The Social Worker will be required to formulate Individual Education Plans for each student on their caseload and maintain report cards. The Social Worker will also be required to attend IEP meetings to collaborate with parents and other members of staff.
Performance responsibilities:
• Plans and develops an organized developmental program of student guidance counseling services with administrative cooperation.
• Maintains accepted standards by submitting local school guidance and counseling plans to appropriate local personnel for approval.
• Facilitates the counseling process and provides as many services as possible to the students.
• Counsels with students individually and in small groups.
• Helping each student understand and accept one’s responsibilities, limitations, interests, attitudes, values, and emotions as maturing persons who are learning to make decisions and to accept the consequences of one’s decisions.
• Providing meaningful information to the students about plans, choices, and/or problems.
• Assumes the role of leader and consultant in the school’s pupil appraisal program by:
• Coordinating the approved testing program for the school.
• Collecting and organizing necessary information about each student from a variety of sources (academic records, parental conferences, personal data forms, standardized and non-standardized tests and other materials for referral purposes).
• Identifying and referring students and parents to other resources when the student needs further assistance.
• Assists students in educational and vocational exploration by:
• Helping students translate previous learning and experiences into a meaningful plan.
• Provides placement information for students, teachers, administrators, and parents to:
• Helping parents develop realistically perceptions of their children’s abilities and aptitudes as they progress through school and make plans for the future.
• Conducts in-service with administrators and teachers through faculty meetings and continuous in-service education oriented toward pupil personnel functions.
• Conducts local studies and follow-up evaluations to determine the extent to which a program is meeting the needs of the students.
• As a member of the professional staff assists in interpreting the counseling and guidance program to the community by the total school program.
• Assumes other reasonable and equitable job-related duties assigned by the immediate supervisor that does not conflict with the guidance and counseling philosophy as mandated by the State Department of Education.
Orland Park, Illinois
Full Time