School Social Worker - Elementary/Middle

Job Description

The Katherine Thomas School in Rockville, MD seeks to hire a full-time Social Worker beginning with the upcoming 2024/2025 school year. The Katherine Thomas School is a private special education school that services students with language, learning, sensory motor disabilities, and autism. EOE

Responsibilities Of The School Social Worker Include

• Providing psycho-educational and social-emotional services to students and families of students enrolled in KTS
• Student counseling - both group and individual
• Providing parent support groups, family system assessments and parent conferences
• Attending interdisciplinary team meetings, integration into the classrooms, liaison with community agencies and providing play therapy
• Appropriate clinical record keeping to ensure that school standards for clinical accountability/quality programming are upheld
  
  

Required Experience

Requirements for the School Social Worker:

• A master's degree in social work
• An active license as an LCSW or LMSW in the state of Maryland or qualify at time of hire for licensure by endorsement (actively licensed in another state)
• Experience with educational agencies and interdisciplinary teams is preferred
• Clinical experience in school social work and/or play therapy
• Experience with early childhood, developmental and behavioral approaches required
• Effective oral and written communication skills
• Interpersonal skills that bring about effective communication and positive interactions with students
• Knowledge base regarding LD and ASD school populations
  
  

Benefits

Benefits for the school social worker:

A great team of professionals in a supportive work environment!

A competitive salary and benefits package that includes educational opportunities, health, dental, a retirement plan, vacation, sick and holiday pay is provided for the School Social Worker.

Keyword: Social Worker - Elementary/Middle School