About Us:21st Century Charter School at Gary is a free K-12+ public charter school. We are building a team of excellence. We are the top performing charter school in Gary, Indiana. We are one of the few Indiana schools offering an early college program, which allows our qualifying high school students to take real college courses for real college credit, free of charge to our students and their families. Our curriculum and our teaching methods are designed using Core Knowledge in K-8, Project Lead the Way beginning in middle school, and a blended learning model in middle school through high school. We are a TAP school! Please join us if you are committed to excellence, mission driven, and ready to take 21st Century Charter School @ Gary to uncommonly high levels of achievement! Our teachers cultivate in our students the critical thinking skills they will need to understand how the world around them works and to become leaders and agents of positive change in the world.

REPORTS TO/TERM:

Principal and GEO Administration

This is a Full Time / 10-month position

QUALIFICATIONS

A Master’s Degree in Social Work preferred

Valid Indiana Social Work License is required

3-5 years’ experience in an urban school environment

Essential Key Functions:

A Social Worker performs the following duties:

Collaborate with Principals, Dean of Students, High School Counselor, SPED, Nurse and School Leadership Team to provide Social Services to students

Collaborate on Behavior Intervention Plans

Train school staff in drug, violence, trafficking, and trauma responsive practices

Implement drug and violence prevention programs

Maintain case files and report to track student progress and problems

Collaborate on functional behavior assessments

Assist in conducting threat assessments

Educate students and school staff about bullying and harassment prevention

Implement programs that support dropout prevention and re-entry

Implement child sexual abuse awareness and prevention programs

Provide social emotional learning regarding interventions that build resilience, self -control, empathy, persistence, and other social and behavioral skills

Provide individual and group counseling to students

Attend IEP conferences as necessary

Attend all required staff meetings

Work as a team member

Behavior Intervention Suggestions

Follow all school policies

Dress professionally