School Social Worker

School Social Worker

The SouthWest Metro Intermediate District #288 has a full-time opening for a school social worker at our Waseca Central/Tri-City United locations for the 2026-2027 school year in Waseca/Montgomery, MN. SouthWest Metro serves students in 11 member districts and 8 associate member districts across the southwestern Twin Cities metropolitan area with programs in special education, career and technical education, care and treatment, adult education, and alternative education. We invite you to embrace your own value, potential, and ability at SouthWest Metro, while empowering others to discover theirs. We work to empower all learners to realize their self-worth through personalized educational instruction, connection to resources, and access to a supportive learning environment.

Description: School social worker, 8 hours a day for 185 contract days. Provide supervision and support for students in an alternative classroom setting. Deliver direct and indirect social work services as outlined in students' IEPs. Collaborate with an interdisciplinary team to offer mental health support, implement restorative practices, and help students build social skills, manage behavior, and address the impact of mental health on learning.

Job summary: Provide support by working directly with students to increase their academic, social/behavioral, communication, and study skills under the direction of the teacher(s). Work in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team.

Qualifications: School social work license. Ability to build successful relationships with students, parents, and staff. Training in nonviolent crisis intervention (CPI) and restrictive procedures is required and provided by the district. Effective communication skills and ability to collaborate with teams. Knowledge and experience providing direct social work service to special education students, as outlined in the individual education plan. Ability to provide direct social/emotional/mental health services, individual and group, to students. Family engagement skills; knowledge of family systems theory. Conflict mediation, crisis management skills. Ability to perform assessments for mental health and crisis situations. Commitment to trauma-informed, student-centered practices.

Pay and benefits: The pay range for this position is $56,000-103,000 based on education and experience. Competitive and comprehensive benefit package available: comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance with HSA/FSA options, dependent care FSA, generous sick time, personal time off, basic life insurance and AD&D, voluntary life insurance and AD&D, 403(b) with a district dollar for dollar match, TRA/PERA (pension plan), long term disability, employee assistance program (EAP), pet insurance.