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Job Description
The Social Worker is responsible to:
- Assess social, emotional and educational problems which affect a child’s ability to benefit from available educational opportunities.
- Maintain supportive relationships with children, parents/carers and teachers, so that help can be given towards the alleviation of problems concerned with school attendance, material difficulties, mental and physical disabilities and behavior.
- Assist in establishing good relationships and understanding between school staff, parents and children by interpreting the school situation to the family and vice versa.
- Enforce legislation and by-laws relating to school attendance and behavior.
- Help improve the links between the school and home, this can involve working closely with parents, teachers, educational psychologists and other services.
- Write reports and prepare evidence for MOE and other offices so as that the School role may be efficiently and compassionately fulfilled.
Skills
Job Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Social Work related discipline
- Strong oral and written communications skills, including the ability to clearly communicate about social working and results in non-technical language.
- Minimum two years teaching experience using the US Common Core Curriculum
- Two years of experience as Social Worker in a school.
- Demonstrated proficiency in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
- Ability to work under tight deadlines and manage multiple priorities.
Education
Social Work
Job Details
Preferred Candidate
About This Company
The American Schools of Creative Science (ASCS) Maliha is managed by Bukhatir Education Advancement & Management (Beam). At ASCS we strive to be a learning organization that nurtures, cultivates and fosters creative and critical thinking skills. The schools’ reputation for academic excellence couples with strong moral values to develop successful, contributing members of a global society. The school's mission is to effectively instill traditional morals and values while ensuring excellence through an integrated curriculum based upon internationally renowned best practices in teaching and learning. At ASCS, English and Arabic departments adopt a common approach and ensure that links are established between the different subjects. American Schools of Creative Science follow the US Common Core Standards Curriculum (the Common Core), along with the UAE’s National Curriculum in Arabic, Islamic Studies, and Social/National Studies. The schools operates a “Unique Qur’an Memorization Program”.