School Social Worker in Dorchester, Massachusetts at Codman Academy Charter School

Job Title: School Social Worker

Supervisor: Principal

Start Date: July, 2026 - June, 2027

Hours: Monday through Friday; LMS 8:15am-4:45pm, Upper School 8:45am-5:15pm

Compensation: Codman Academy Charter Public School follows a compensation scale based on years of direct experience. 1 year experience starts at $60,000, with 16 years direct experience starting at $110,444 annually.

Description: The School Social Worker serves the students whose social, emotional, and/or family problems interfere with their capacity to function adequately as a student.

Responsibilities include (but not limited to):

Individual Counseling

• Provides direct counseling as appropriate to individual students.

• Provides consultation to parents as needed and maintain student’s counseling files.

• Writes treatment plans/assessments for students in counseling.

• Organizes, and refers eligible students for outside mental health services with parental consent.

• Writes and monitors socio-emotional goals for specified IEP students.

Group Counseling

• Facilitates Talking Circle groups (approximately four 45 minute sessions per week) and Life Skills groups.

• Creates age appropriate curriculum to address student needs, including guest speakers.

• Makes referrals as needed based on student’s revealing information that is concerning.

Student Support

• Conducts family intake meetings.

• Mediates conflicts between students.

• Participates in Student Support Team meetings K1-12.

• Contributes to decision-making process regarding referred students.

• Develops individualized classroom strategies (socio-emotional, behavioral) for students to learn better and deal with their emotions, and to defuse conflicts.

• Consults with classroom teachers and administrators to help them better understand and work with/manage particular students.

• Reviews notes for the purpose of confidentiality and ethical norms.

• Contacts parents and works with them to ensure appropriate supports are being used at home.

Crisis Intervention

• Assists students in crisis situations and makes appropriate referrals and/or immediate interventions.

• Develops behavior modifications for students, enhancing student growth and creating a safe emotional/physical environment for the school.

• Meets with student/families to develop a socio-emotional plan.

• Makes appropriate and necessary home visits with parental consent.

• Files 51A/B for the school and does follow-up plans based on concerning information such as abuse/neglect or domestic violence that the student reveals in the session.

• Makes appropriate/necessary visits to home, and/or community agencies.

Homeless Liaison

• Identifies homeless youth and families.

• Connects homeless students and families to community resources.