Social Worker Assistant

Reports to:

Regional Social Worker

Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in Social Work required
• Enrolled in Mater’s Social Work Program preferred

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Prepares and maintains an inventory of services offered by community health and welfare agencies.
• Maintains direct contacts and close working relationships with the community’s public and private health and welfare agencies.
• Assists school social worker in developing strategies for using the community’s resources to help resolve family problems and thus improve the student’s learning opportunities.
• Performs limited work with individual students and/or parents relating to the basic social, emotional, or physical needs as they might affect student attendance, adjustment, and school performance.
• Maintains records prepared by the school social worker and maintains the confidentiality of these records.