2026-2027 School Social Worker (0925)

Position 0925 School Social Worker Salary and Appointment Salary Range: $86,291-$146,876 per annum (Full-time / School Year). Appointment Type: Temporary Contract. Length: 2026-2027 School Year. Essential Duties School Climate and Systems Work: Provide a mental health perspective to (a) enhance school climate and (b) build, sustain, and integrate service-delivery systems in collaboration with the school community of students, staff, families, and service providers. School-wide Needs Assessment: Assess current status of needs and resources of school community to inform program implementation; consult with teachers, administrators, staff, and parents regarding social and emotional needs of students. Coordinated Multi-Disciplinary Student Support Structures: Participate in coordinated multi-disciplinary student support structures including the Student Assistance Program (SAP) and Behavioral Response to Intervention (RtI) team. Coordinate SAP to identify student needs and create intervention plans according to SFUSD SAP manual. Utilize Response to Intervention framework to guide service delivery. Lead school site efforts to integrate the Student Assistance Program, Student Success Team, and Behavioral Response to Intervention frameworks to best support student needs, ensuring data-driven decision making, fidelity of interventions, and progress monitoring to evaluate effectiveness of interventions. Relationship-Building and Collaboration: Build and maintain positive relationships externally between the school, families and other community members and internally among students and staff. Staff Professional Development and Parent/Caregiver Training: Develop and provide training to school community on social and emotional factors that impact students’ learning (NASW SSW Standard 10). Crisis Response: Act as ongoing member of the school site crisis response team. Consult with administrators regarding planning and implementation of district crisis response protocol as outlined in the SFUSD School Crisis Response Manual. Support school community in the event of individual or school-wide crises. Student Attendance: Collaborate with school staff and the Pupil Services Office to develop and implement student attendance improvement strategies that include family involvement. Mental Health Assessment and Intervention Services: Work in collaboration with school community to provide mental health assessment and intervention services from a strengths-based ecological perspective (NASW SSW Standards 12, 13). Individual Student Supports: Provide support for individual students. Assess home, school, personal, and community factors that may affect a student’s learning. Provide case management, organizing, coordinating, and sustaining activities and services designed to optimize functioning of students and/or families. Provide short-term, goal-oriented individual mental health interventions when social-emotional needs impact academic learning or ability to participate in school day; facilitate connection to more extensive services if needed. Provide direct individual crisis response interventions (e.g., suicide assessment, child crisis consultation, child protective services reporting). Mental Health Groups: Facilitate mental health and/or psycho-educational support groups for students. Student Success Team (SST) Process: Assist in coordination and facilitation of SST meetings per SFUSD SST manual. Teacher Consultation: Consult with teachers and staff to develop optimal classroom learning environments for students; develop behavior plans and support classroom management. Special Education Support: Collaborate with Special Education Department to support coordination and implementation of on-site behavioral and mental health-related services; document pre-referral behavioral and mental health interventions, include progress monitoring data, and inform referral process for assessment that determines eligibility for special education services. Department and District Responsibilities: Professional Development Advancement of the Profession: Strengthen professional skills and contribute to advancing the professional community. Attend and/or facilitate meetings, workshops and professional development for SSWs. Engage in consultation to refine clinical skills; enhance cultural competency and reflect upon ethical considerations. Provide ongoing training and supervision of master’s level interns as needed. Use evidence-based research and evaluation data to inform practice. Understand and stay informed of current relevant policies, laws, court decisions, legislation, rules and regulations. Maintain adequate safeguards for the privacy and confidentiality of information within district and professional guidelines. Coordinate district programs and deliver curricula assigned to SSWs satisfying any additional requirements of grants (e.g., Mentoring for Success, Youth Outreach Workers). Serve as liaison for Foster Youth Services, Families and Youth in Transition, and LGBTQ Support at school site as needed. Maintain accurate data relevant to planning, management and evaluation; complete daily service logs. Attend required meetings (e.g., monthly SSW staff meetings, MAA, mandatory trainings). Minimum Qualifications Master’s Degree in Social Work and CA PPS credential in School Social Work. Experience coordinating and knowledge of comprehensive support systems in schools. Experience providing case management, facilitating support groups, and delivering mental health interventions in a school setting. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; experience working with multidisciplinary teams in an educational setting. Ability to organize time, energies, and workloads effectively and efficiently (NASW Standard 2). Multi-cultural competency. Knowledge and experience with computers, including Word processing, databases, and internet access. SFUSD requires all teachers to hold or be pursuing a valid California teaching credential and an English Learner or Bilingual Authorization before their start date. Benefits Competitive salary of $86,291-$146,876 per annum commensurate with experience. Comprehensive benefits plan including dental and vision plans, a defined benefit pension plan, disability, life insurance, flexible spending account options, and vacation time. Inclusive and equity-centered environment encouraging staff to bring their whole selves to work. Full waiver of health benefits for individual coverage including free dental and vision benefits. Retirement pension contributions up to 19.1% equivalent of base pay. Free life insurance up to $25,000. Pre-tax medical and dependent care flexible spending accounts. Pre-tax commuter transit program. 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