Job Description:

Location:
  Fairfield Woods Middle School

FAIRFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Fairfield, Connecticut

I.   JOB TITLE:  School Social Worker - Long-Term Substitute

II.   CERTIFICATION/QUALIFICATIONS:   Certified or eligible for Connecticut certification as a 
School Social Worker (071).

III.  WORK YEAR: 10 months

IV.   REPORTS TO: Building Administrator/Designee or Director of Pupil Services and Counseling 
and/or Program Director of Student Support & Mental Health Services

V.  JOB GOALS:
A. To assist students in making the most effective use of the educational process and environment 
through systematic social work services to parents, students and the school community.
B. To provide social work service based on an understanding of human behavior, expertise in 
inter-personal relationships and a good foundation of systems theory, family dynamics, community 
resource networks and home-school-community linkages.
C. To provide a continuity of relationship and service to parents as their children advance through 
the grades from one school to another.
D. To establish and maintain professional relationships with all members of the educational 
community, family community and representatives of community agencies and private practitioners in 
order to provide effective liaison in the interest of students.
E. To offer social work consultation and collaboration with all school personnel as needed.

VI.  MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:
A. Counsels parents, students, and families on long and short-term bases.
B. Utilizes crisis intervention skills to activate any and all resources within the school and 
community to deal with critical situations.
C. Consults with staff, community agencies, and other professional personnel in private practice.
D. Serves as the school resource for specialized educational placement of students in programs 
outside the school system.
E. Provide and coordinate special services for students referred to the Central Planning and 
Placement Team.
F. Maintain contact with school and parents during the course of any outside placement.
G. Serves on the Central Planning and Placement Team and building teams as requested.

VII.  Miscellaneous
A. Leads parent discussion groups.
B. Participates in in-service training programs.
C. Serves as school representative to outside agencies such as Juvenile Court and the Child 
Guidance Clinic.
D. Is involved in discharge planning institutions and agencies in preparation for student returning 
to school.
E. Acts as advisor to agencies, school and community regarding residential placement.
F. Visits private and public facilities where Fairfield children may be placed.
G. Acts as a source of information on the social work profession to interested students.
H. Assists other agency professionals in the use of community resources in the interest of students.
I. Maintains contact with students temporarily not attending school upon appropriate referral.
J. Consults with tutors assigned to students for medical or emotional reasons.
K. Coordinates home contact with Visiting Nurses' Service.
L. Organizes and expedites summer planning for students in need of special programs.
M. Represents social work discipline at "inter" and "intra" school committees.
N. Participates in research, in-service and professional growth activities.
O. Searches for opportunities to act as a resource person to individuals and groups in the 
community as a speaker, group leader, and panelist. As a part of the activity, an emphasis is placed on developing positive public relations for the school system and the program in particular.

For additional information contact:
Stephen DeAngelo
Asst Principal 
Fairfield Woods Middle School
SDEANGELO@fairfield schools.org