Mission: Jewish Family Service of Greater New Haven (JFSGNH) supports and strengthens individual, family, and community life by providing a wide range of social services. We welcome people of all ages, abilities, races, ethnicities, sexual orientations, gender identities, and faiths. JFS is guided by the compassionate and ethical values of Judaism.
Jewish Family Service of Greater of New Haven currently has the following job opportunity.
School-based Social Emotional Learning Facilitator for Jewish Day Schools
Jewish Family Service of Greater New Haven, CT
Job Details
Part-time with the ability to become Full-time
Follows Jewish Day School Calendars
$28 to $32 per hour depending on experience
Benefits dependent on full-time position.
Qualifications:
- Driver’s License
- Master’s degree in Social Work or Related Field; or Bachelors in Social Work or Related Field and 5years experience.
- Clear background check
Full Job Description
JFS Greater New Haven (JFSGNH) is searching for a candidate with the background and passion to incorporate social emotional learning curricula for students, staff, and parents of the Greater New Haven area Jewish Day Schools; focusing on their K-8th Grade student body.
This is an exciting opportunity for any social worker or educator who is interested in teamwork, creating safe and empowered spaces, and who believes in evidence-based practices. Utilizing specific Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) curricula, the ideal candidate will be able to navigate the similarities and differences in the Jewish practices and values that each school community offers, while adhering to the overall goal of increasing social-emotional skills for students, faculty, and guardians.
The school social worker will serve as a specialized resource for youth, guardians, and teachers. As Synagogues and the Jewish Community Center (JCC) are a major part of these communities, it is expected that part of this role will also include education, support, and interventions around emerging events that impact the students’ many different communities of belonging.
This is year two of a two-year grant to identify the impact of SEL for the school’s and student’s learning goals, and the job and time off will follow the school calendars. There are three Jewish Day Schools, and the JFSGNH office that serve as working sites for this position.
Responsibilities include:
- Providing on-site consultation and intervention to the social-emotional needs of youth utilizing SEL curricula.
- Application of evidence-based practices, and other relevant bodies of knowledge pertaining to school social work and child development.
- Providing one-on-one psychoeducation, support groups, and trainings to youth, parent, and teacher populations.
- Educating the school communities about stigma’s impact on service use, and provide resource planning for social and economic problems facing the school community.
- Identifying community resources and providing referrals when students or families have specialty needs outside the scope of practice or specialty areas of the worker.
- Utilizing electronic recording systems for accurate reporting, quality assurance, task completion, and for reporting outcomes to school administrations and grants.
- Attending supervision and agency meetings as scheduled by JFS or Day Schools.
- Actively participating in school development and in-service days at each school.
- Demonstrating knowledge and behaviors that reflect understanding and support of the values set forth in the mission and expectations of both Jewish Family Service and the independent communities of each day school.
- Adherence to professional standards and code of conduct, JFSGNH Agency and Adult Mental Health Clinic policies/procedures, and schools’ policies/procedures.
Primary Relationships
This candidate will be directly supervised by a JFS clinician with school-based experience on a bi-weekly basis, and will have identified lead supervisors at each day school. The success of this candidate will be seen by working collaboratively with the administration and staff of each school to enable a holistic learning environment for students. This employee will see themselves as a member of the JFSGNH team, as well as the independent school communities they work with.
Cultural Competence
Employee will be sensitive and responsive to the ethnic, racial, cultural, socio-economic, religious, and national diversity in JFS’s service population and among its employees. Further, employee will be able to demonstrate interest and knowledge in Orthodox Judaism heritage and customs as taught by the faculty, administration, and school communites.
Ideal candidates will possess the following:
- Master’s degree in social work or related field; or Bachelors degree in social work or related field and 5 years experience.
- Knowledge of Jewish culture and customs and/or willingness to learn and incorporate cultural competence in all aspects of work duties
- Experience with and interest in working with youth and families
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Ability to travel to program and meeting sites
- Familiarity and use of SEL curricula (Preferred)
License/Certification:
- Driver’s License (Required)
- Car Insurance 100/300/50
Work Locations: New Haven Jewish Day School Campus’; JFSNH office; occasionally remote during remote school days/ breaks
Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE):
JFSGNH is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE).
To apply please send a cover letter and resume to:
Please send cover letter and Resume to eball@ezraacademyct.org
More about JFSGNH
JFSGNH traces its roots to 1881 when community lay leaders created the Hebrew Benevolent Society to provide assistance to newly arriving Russian immigrants to the New Haven area. The demand for aid was so great that additional Jewish community members established similar groups (e.g., Hebrew Charity Society, Mishkan Israel Sisterhood Philanthropic Works). In 1919, they merged to become United Jewish Charities.
Upon the hiring of a professional social worker, this former lay agency set the foundation for the current professionally staffed social service agency. In 1920, a collaborative effort with other area organizations emerged as Community Chest—now known as the United Way.
By 1940, United Jewish Charities emerged with a new name, Jewish Family Service of New Haven. And finally, 75 years later, in order to better reflect JFSGNH’s expanded outreach and community presence throughout the entire Greater New Haven region, the agency once more officially changed its name to become Jewish Family Service of Greater New Haven. Aging Adult Services are just one program of many that offer wrap around services and basic needs to people living through vulnerable moments in their lives. For a full program listing, please visit www.jfsnh.org.
OUR AFFILIATIONS
JFSGNH is a licensed social service agency supported in part by the Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven. We are a member of the Network of Jewish Human Service Agencies (NJHSA).