id='p2151_'>Student and Families Resource Specialist JobID: 2151
Position Type:
Student Support Services/Social Worker
Date Posted:
8/11/2026
Location:
Warrensville Heights Elementary School
Closing Date:
08/20/2026
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Position: Student & Families Resource Specialist (Social Work)
Reports to: Director of Special Education
Employment Status: Regular/Full-time
FLSA Status: Exempt
Description: Provide social work services to students and families related to social, emotional and life adjustments in society.
Essential Job Functions:
I. Develop, plan and implement educational programs for children.
- Participate in team meetings to screen; provide social development assessments and design intervention plans for students.
- Ensure safety of students.
- Maintain accurate and complete records as required.
- Develop and facilitate classroom interventions.
- Participate in Pupil Service Team meetings to screen, assess, and plan for students presenting problems in school.
- Plan and implement a program of individual and small group counseling with students, which includes: a) contact students in caseload once each semester and meet with student and get acquainted and keep abreast of their plans, b) identify and reach out to students needing counseling or guidance services who do not come to the counselor by referral, and c) work with students in response to referrals: self-referrals, referrals by other students, referrals from relatives, teachers, and administrators.
- Demonstrate respect for the worth, dignity, and quality of the student's human rights.
- Show concern for and assist in the planning of the student's educational, career, personal, and social development.
- Aid the student in self-evaluation, self-understanding, and self-direction, enabling his/her to make decisions consistent with immediate and long-range goals.
- Assist the student and parents in understanding strengths, weaknesses, interests, values, potentialities, and limitations.
- Assist the student in developing good personal, positive attitudes and values.
- Encourage student to participate in school activities with a view toward increasing effectiveness in personal and social activities.
- Assist the student in the development of an awareness of the world of work and in the use of school and community resources.
- Help the student to acquire a better understanding of the world of work through the acquisition of skills and attitudes and/or participation in work-related programs.
- Encourage the student to plan and use leisure time activities to increase personal satisfaction.
- Indicate the conditions under which counseling is provided with respect to privileged communication.
- Assist in the adjustment of the student to elementary, middle, or high school.
- Demonstrate the ability to develop educational alternatives that reflect the diversity of cultural and ethnic backgrounds of all our students.
- Interpret test and inventory results to students either individually or in small groups.
- Refer students to community resources whenever appropriate.
- Organize and implement group guidance and counseling on special topics that meet the assessed needs of students such as: dealing with attitudinal behavior, class cutting, drugs, alcohol, and those societal changes that impact the family.
- Assist in the collection, dissemination, and maintenance of educational, personal, social, and career information.
- Assist in the coordination and accumulation of meaningful information concerning students.
II. Establish family contacts to alleviate family stress to enable students to function effectively in school.
- Provide parents with accurate information about the school policies and procedures, educational and career opportunities, course or program requirements, and resources that will contribute to the growth and development of students.
- Assist parents in forming realistic perceptions of the student's aptitudes, abilities, interests, and attitudes as related to educational and career planning, academic achievement, persona-social development and total school progress.
- Interview the family to assess problems affecting school adjustment.
- Design home-school prevention/intervention programs.
- Maintain a flexible schedule allowing for evening contacts with families.
III. Advocate as School-Community Liaison for students and families.
- Link school and community services.
- Help schools receive adequate support from social health and mental health agencies.
- Expand family's knowledge base of community resources and utilization of such resources.
IV. Provide various group prevention/interventions for students, staff, and families.
- Develop staff in service training programs such as classroom management.
- Develop prevention-focused programs.
- Assist and facilitate training such as social skills for students in school.
- Provide parent-training programs in school and in home settings.
V. Provide individual interventions
- Respond to crisis situations.
- Conduct counseling and casework with students and families.
- Help the system respond effectively to each student's needs.
VI. Maintain the professional knowledge required to assure excellence in job performance with a special focus on the content
area of the position and on the multicultural aspects of managing and interacting with a diverse work force.
- Demonstrate to the school and community an awareness of and sensitivity to the needs and feelings of persons with experiences that differ from their own. This includes differences in sex, race, culture, physical disabilities and life styles.
- Maintain respect at all times for confidential information.
- Assist students in the transition from elementary school to middle school.
- Refer students suspected of learning difficulties to the intervention assistance team.
- Observe ethics of the teaching profession.
VII. Contribute to and promote the accomplishment of School District goals.
VIII. Perform other miscellaneous responsibilities as required by the School District.
Other Duties and Responsibilities:
- To promote safety, employees are expected to exercise caution and comply with safety regulations and district policies/procedures when involved in the following situations/conditions.
- Exposure to adverse weather conditions and temperature extremes.
- Exposure to blood-borne pathogens and communicable diseases.
- Interactions with aggressive, disruptive, and/or unruly individuals.
- Operating and/or riding in a vehicle.
- Traveling to meetings and work assignments.
Qualifications:
- Valid state department of education license/certificate appropriate for the position.
- Meets all mandated health requirements.
- A record free of criminal violations that would prohibit public school employment.
- Complies with drug-free workplace rules and board policies.
- Ability to establish working relationships with co-workers and function as part of a cohesive team.
- Commitment to keep current with workplace innovations that enhance personal productivity.
- Successful teaching experience is preferred. Effective organizational planning and project management skills.
- Ability to identify, evaluate, and implement program options, auxiliary services, and curricular materials that support the diverse learning needs of students.
- Ability to identify, access, and organize community support for program activities.
- Available to work irregular hours and/or a non-traditional schedule.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Acknowledges personal accountability for decisions and conduct.
- Anticipates time constraints. Manages tasks efficiently to meet deadlines.
- Averts problem situations and intervenes to resolve conflicts.
- Effectively uses active listening, observation, reading, verbal, nonverbal, and writing skills.
- Interprets information accurately and initiates effective responses.
- Maintains an acceptable attendance record and is punctual.
- Skillfully manages individual, group, and organizational interactions
- Uses diplomacy and exercises self-control when dealing with other individuals.
- Ability to work effectively with others
- Ability to communicate ideas and directives clearly and effectively both orally and in writing
- Effective, active listening skills
- Organizational and problem solving skills
- Knowledge and skills in test administration and interpretation
- Knowledge of school curriculum
- Chemical dependency training
- Behavior modification training
- Basic computer/word processing skills
Additional Working Conditions:
- Occasional evening work
- Occasional operation of a vehicle in inclement weather conditions, i.e., being prepared to work on all scheduled school days, except calamity days
- Occasionally lift, carry, push, and pull various items up to a maximum of 25 pounds
- Frequent repetitive hand motion, e.g., computer keyboard, calculator, writing
- Frequent requirement to sit, stand, walk, talk, hear, see, read, speak, reach, stretch with hands and arms, crouch, kneel, climb, and stoop
- Occasional travel, e.g., attending workshop outside of district
- Occasional interaction with unruly students
- Occasional requirement to operate school district vehicle
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The job functions listed above are intended to outline the essential functions typically performed by individuals who are in this job title. This description is not intended to be all-inclusive nor to prevent supervisors from assigning other tasks of a similar nature or level of responsibility.
Attachment(s):
- Student & Families Resource Specialist Job Description.pdf