School Social Worker- 2023-2024 School Year at Goleta Union School District

About the Employer

The Goleta Union School District (GUSD) serves approximately 3,384 students in preschool through sixth grade across nine elementary schools. All schools offer transitional kindergarten and strong support services, including special education and mental health, in addition to after-school care at all nine schools supporting approximately 1,500 students. GUSD offers embedded programs to address specific needs of gifted students and English Learners across the district. Each school maintains a 1.0–1.5 full time positions to support intervention needs for all students. With small class sizes, a focus on a science based approach to literacy, STEAM, and strong community partnerships, GUSD is committed to a district vision providing powerful instruction, purposeful individualization, and productive partnerships that lead to positive evidence of student growth and success.

Job Summary

Job Summary

Under the direction of the Assistant Superintendent of Pupil Services, provide a wide range of service integration efforts and providers to enhance pupils' ability to define, work toward and reach their full academic and personal potential; perform culturally competent, bio-psychosocial assessments of pupils, their families, and their social and school environments; deliver a continuum of prevention and intervention opportunities, services, and supports to maximize positive academic, social, and emotional outcomes to pupils, their families, and to enhance the school community for all its members; use the basic methods of social work intervention, which may include counseling, crisis intervention, casework, group work, community organizing, consultation, case management, family therapy, and effective educational strategies; create and maintain linages and partnership with pupils, families, faculty and staff and the community; assess, design advocate for , and deliver direct and indirect services to culturally sensitive educational outcomes as the systemic level. These activities are based on knowledge of the mission and function of the school, school district and community, and how these systemic factors contribute to learning outcomes in both positive and negative ways.

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