SY 2026 - 2027 Social Worker

Girls Global Academy; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Girls Global Academy is seeking a dedicated Social Worker to provide mental health support to students in Washington, DC. The role requires coordinating services for students with social, emotional, and behavioral challenges as well as working closely with families and staff to enhance the educational experience.

The ideal candidate will have a background in professional counseling, with a strong emphasis on teamwork and advocacy for students and their families. This full-time position ensures comprehensive support within the school setting.

Qualifications

• Minimum of two years of experience working as a counselor in a school with students in grades 9 - 12.
• Ability to make good judgments and quick decisions.
• Maintain high degree of discretion and confidentiality.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and provide mental health supports to students.
• Assist students with academic learning and social-emotional growth.
• Conduct individual and group sessions to address students' needs.

Skills

Professional Counseling License (LPC)

Two years of experience in school counseling

Clear communication

Judgment and decision-making skills

Confidentiality

Bilingual (English/Spanish)

Job description

Social Worker

The School Social Worker is responsible for coordinating and providing appropriate mental health supports to students with significant social, emotional and behavioral challenges and their families; as well as assisting them with academic learning by providing strategic services that identify issues that interfere with the educational process as identified in an Individualized Educational Plan or a 504 Behavior Plan. As a team member, the Social Worker collaborates interdisciplinary to ensure students' needs are being addressed within the school setting.

Reports to: Assistant Principal of Culture and Counseling

Status: 12-month full time

Duties and Responsibilities

Proactive work with students, staff, and families

• Assists teachers in understanding their students, including providing and interpreting student data and supports other school staff in implementing school wide advisory programs.
• Identifies, creates, and assesses services to address at-risk students' needs.
• Providing consultation to school staff and parents to facilitate student educational, social, and emotional growth.
• Serve as the main point of contact on student’s mental health, and social-emotional issues to teachers, administrators, families.
• Obtaining information concerning the effects of the environment, including family, cultural, and economic disadvantages that may be adversely affecting student progress.
• Works with the Restorative Intervention Specialist to provide resources for students experiencing housing insecurity and home relocation, and students being removed from the home.

Program Development/ Program Planning

• Designs, implements and evaluates processes and procedures for services to include student referrals, placement and continuous assessments.
• Providing resources and building connections with community providers to provide referrals to the students and families.

Advocacy

• Works closely with teachers to offer guidance, facilitate communication, and advocate on how to best support students, family engagement and community-based referrals as needed to support the whole family.
• Provides consultation, support and resolution on school-based issues through collaboration with parents/guardians, advocates or legal counsel and make appropriate referrals as warranted.

Direct Service

• Conducts frequent and ongoing individual, group and workshop sessions with students to address social/emotional needs and improve behaviors and interactions that impact school climate, school attendance and learning environments;
• Providing psycho-education.
• Completes assessments for students to determine additional needs for the students.
• Maintains accurate documentation and records.

Special Education

• Providing related services as prescribed by Individualized Education Plans (IEPs), including social skills, life skills, and transitional skills that can be transferred from school to community.
• Participate as a member of the IEP and academic 504 team, Instructional Support and Student Intervention Teams, and other school-based teams to develop interventions for promoting students' academic success.
• Working collaboratively within the classroom setting to implement student IEPs.

Perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• License in Professional Counseling (LPC) Preferred
• Minimum of two years of experience working as a counselor in a school with students in grades 9 - 12.
• Exchange and communicate information clearly and accurately with parent, students and other health professionals.
• Ability to make good judgments and quick decisions.
• Maintain high degree of discretion and confidentiality, as necessary and appropriate.
• Bilingual (English/Spanish) preferred.

Girls Global Academy provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.