Student and Family Intervention Specialist (Bilingual)
The Equity Project (TEP) Charter School - NY - New York, NY
posted 11 days ago
About the position
Join the team at The Equity Project (TEP) Charter School, featured in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and on 60 Minutes for its revolutionary salaries and its outstanding results. TEP aims to achieve educational equity for students from historically underserved communities by utilizing world-class teachers and social workers, while re-imagining the social work profession as a place in which individuals prioritize their own growth as experts and community leaders. Applicants will be eligible for the Early Childhood/Elementary School Student and Family Intervention Specialist role (Kindergarten through 4th Grade) or the Middle School Student and Family Intervention Specialist role (5th Grade to 8th Grade). The Student and Family Intervention Specialist will perform professional-level social work within the team at one of TEP's campuses. This individual will support students and families in a variety of ways, including attendance intervention programming, restorative practices, and behavioral supports. Each Student and Family Intervention Specialist at The Equity Project (TEP) Charter School focuses their efforts on supporting and collaborating with students and families, while refining their skills and prioritizing their own professional growth. This is an amazing opportunity for a developing child and family social worker who is looking to deepen their clinical expertise and work alongside a team of expert clinical social workers while building long-lasting relationships with students and families.
Responsibilities
- Track daily attendance/tardies, and develop year-long creative intervention programming to motivate students to attend school on time and on a daily basis
- Monitor and assess psychosocial and non-psychosocial factors that might be influencing attendance and tardiness
- Conduct solution-oriented family meetings to assess obstacles, and make recommendations for increasing attendance and prompt arrival
- Create and implement supportive intervention programming to increase safe behavior on the bus to and from school
- Lead mediations as necessary, using relational-based models within your social work practice, in alignment with TEP's commitment to Restorative Justice Practices
- Coordinate communication with grade level social worker, teacher, family and student in response to behavioral incidents
- Support students in TEP's Social Work 'Reflection Space' using a relational-based perspective, in alignment with TEP's commitment to Restorative Justice Practices
- Lead outreach and communication with families in response to behavior infractions
- Respond to day-to-day challenges and low-level student crises at TEP during the course of a school day
- Design and implement creative clinical interventions for students with repeated instances of similar challenges
Requirements
- Complete fluency in Spanish required
- Deeply aligned to TEP's mission of providing a world-class mental health services and social work interventions to historically under-resourced student communities
- Experience working with children and families, with a preference for individuals who have worked within a school setting
- The ability to design and implement in-school prevention programming according to current best practices within the field of social work
- Ability to simultaneously manage a family and student communication, while prioritizing multiple competing urgent tasks
- We value candidates with a Master's degree in social work, counseling, human services, or education, but we also welcome individuals with degrees to apply
- TEP does not require Student and Family Intervention Specialists to have any specific level of certification/licensing outside of the above educational and experience preferences
Benefits
- Compensation: Student and Family Intervention Specialists earn an annual salary of between $60K and 70K
- Redefined Work-Year: 3 extended rest breaks and 3 professional development institutes focused on learning and collaboration with the teaching and social work team
- Unmatched Social Work Talent: Be surrounded by a collaborative community of experienced, passionate Social Workers and Educators who care about educational equity
- Time Off: Approximately 10 weeks of vacation per year (all school vacations)
- Employee Wellness: We value your well-being through our Staff Food Program, Staff Retreats, and Wellness Programming
- Healthcare: World-class medical, dental, vision, Short-Term Disability (STD), Long-Term Disability (LTD), and Life Insurance policies
- Family Focus: Parental leave and dependent care account so you can care for your loved ones
- 403b Retirement Plan: We care about your ability to save for your future
- Learning & Development: A culture that provides and encourages professional growth and development, including professional development and tuition/continuous learning reimbursements
