School Success Liaison

Description
School Success Liaison - Long Lake Elementary
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Do you like summers off?
How about mostly working during the school day?
Do you dream of promoting a culture of support and empowerment by teaching and leading our community's youth, while encompassing the whole family?
We proudly promote school readiness by enhancing the social and cognitive development of children through the provision of educational, health, nutritional, social, and other services to enrolled children and families.
School Success Liaison: To act as a liaison between the home, school and community agencies for students
who may benefit from additional supports when working towards academic success.
Act as the attendance and truancy liaison for individuals on the referral caseload list
and others as requested.
Essential functions:

• Develop and facilitate an action plan between the school and the family to help ensure student's success to include weekly in-school contacts with children and bi-weekly home visits with parents.
• Update direct supervisor on an ongoing basis regarding concerns, issues and caseload;
• Develop and enhance communication, networking, and collaboration between parents, schools, and community agencies;
• Provide supportive services and follow-up activities both in the home and school environments;
• Upon receipt of a referral, convene a meeting of all involved parties to cooperatively develop an action plan and schedule the first home visit;
• Schedule and keep home visits with parents on a minimum bi-weekly basis to gather information, facilitate goal setting and assist in problem solving;
• Meet with teachers weekly in the school setting to assess progress and make necessary adjustments in action plans;
• Meet weekly with referred students in the school setting;
• Represent the agency, school district and program in a professional manner at all times;
• Seek consultation and make referrals to community agencies as needed;
• Provide services coordination for families who have involvement with multiple agencies;
• Maintain required records and documentation for caseload and informal support tasks, including Formstack data entry as required by supervisor;
• Attend staff meetings and trainings as required by supervisor;
• Participate in inter-agency groups and committees when possible;
• Act as truancy liaison in your individual building(s) to ensure students are attending on a regular basis, participate in Preliminary Inquiries and court hearings on an as needed basis;
• Act as a facilitator for any classroom presentations on an as needed basis;
• Act as a facilitator for any groups (i.e., divorce, friendship, COA, etc.) on an as needed basis.
• Other duties as assigned:
  • To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Requirements
Minimum Education:
B.A. or B.S. in Social Work, Guidance and Counseling, Sociology, Psychology or related human service field is required. 1 -2 years experience working with school age children preferred. An education degree with appropriate course work and/or experience will be considered.
Minimum Experience:

• Prior experience working with low income/at risk families.
• Strong teamwork skills which balance team and individual responsibilities.
• Experienced in working collaboratively with community members.
• Persons in this position must have reliable transportation and a valid Michigan driver license.

Minimum Skills Required:

• Language Skills:
  • Ability to read, analyze and interpret written materials. Write reports, business correspondence and manuals. Present information and respond to questions.

• Mathematical Skills:
  • Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals.
• Reasoning Ability:
  • Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule form.
• Security/Privacy Access:
  • This position has limited access to view, alter, retrieve or store individually identifiable health or other sensitive information, pertinent to accomplishing assigned tasks, and must maintain confidentiality in accordance with the NMCAA Confidentiality Policy.