CST Social Worker

Teaneck Public Schools | Teaneck, NJ

  

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CountyBergen
Posted Date 8/27/2024
Expiration Date6/30/2025
Description
Child Study Team Social Worker 
2024-2025

Job Summary:  
  1. Serve as CST case manager addressing those personal, social, or emotional related to educational and social progress.  Perform case management service with parents as an integral part of the task of assisting students, including meeting with parents.
  2. Consult and collaborate with other school personnel in gathering and furnishing information on a case, and in establishing and planning for respective roles in the modification of the student behavior; observe referred students in the classroom and other school settings.
  3. Serve as liaison between the school district and child and/or family agencies in terms of school placements for students outside the district.  Provide parent training services and counsel parents toward improving home situations whereby more favorable conditions will be attained with regard to school work, behavior, attendance and interest.
  4. Provide counseling and crisis intervention to pupils. 
  5. Assume case management responsibilities including pupil placement and evaluation of such placements and for identifying out of district placements, and monitor and provide case management responsibilities for these students.
  6. Serve as a member of the building Child Study Team in case conferences and develop IEPs and behavioral plans.
  7. Evaluate the pupils adaptive social functioning and emotional development, observe students in the classroom and other settings and develop comprehensive reports.
  8. Responsible for the development and implementation Special Education students’ IEP.

Qualifications:  
  1. Minimum 2 yrs CST experience.
  2. Valid New Jersey Educational Services Certificate with Social Worker endorsement.
  3. Master's degree in Social Work.
  4. Must have demonstrated knowledge of laws and regulations governing special education.
  5. Prior experience with developing student IEP programs in accordance with the NJ Special Education Code. IEP Direct experience helpful.  
  6. Bilingual preferred.
Qualified candidates must have strong collaborative, planning and performance assessment skills; be knowledgeable in a variety of teaching strategies and a demonstrated ability to work harmoniously in a multicultural, diverse community.

NJ First Act effective 9/1/2011
Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer

Application Procedure:
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Bergen

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