Social Worker (2027/2028 School Year)
School District U-46 (Elgin, IL)
Elgin, ILJob$61K/yrPosted 2 days agoStill listed 1 day ago
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The Social Worker provides individual and group social-emotional support to students and families, prioritizing special education services mandated by IEPs. The role supports students with behavioral concerns through MTSS, participates in service and crisis teams, develops behavioral interventions and assessments, and consults with school staff and families. It also connects students with school and community resources and provides professional training and community education.
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Full job description
NOTE: This posting has been opened for application intake for anyone interested in a position with School District U-46 for the 2027/2028 school year. We anticipate the review of applications to begin sometime near the end of January. If you are interested in a role for the current 2026/2027 school year, we encourage you to check out our open vacancies. Position / Title: Social Worker Bargaining Unit: ETADepartment/Location: Specialized Student Services Work Days: 184Reports To: SSS/Building Principal JD Revision Date: 09/17/2026Supervises: N/A
Function / Position Summary To provide individual and group social-emotional support to students and families. Job Duties / Responsibilities
- Provide direct social/emotional support to students; prioritizing special education as mandated by IEPs.
- Assist and provide support to students struggling with social-emotional and behavioral concerns through the MTSS framework.
- Participate in Service Team meetings to represent the social-emotional aspect of the educational setting.
- Assist in the development of behavioral intervention strategies as well as formalized Functional Behavior Assessments and Behavior Intervention Plans.
- Prepare Social Developmental Studies to address the social-emotional status of students. During the case study or re-evaluation process.
- Provide interventions for students in crisis.
- Data collection and recordkeeping to monitor social-emotional wellbeing of students.
- Be a participating member of the Crisis Team.
- Address parent concerns and provide community resources as necessary.
- Advocate for students with school staff and administration.
- Mobilize school and community resources to support the student in the educational setting.
- Consult with school staff to address social-emotional concerns of students.
- Assist teachers with classroom interventions.
- Contact with community resources.
- Provide professional training and community education opportunities.
- Other duties as assigned.
Education
- Master's Degree in Social Work. (Required)
- Professional Educator License (PEL) with a School Social Work endorsement. (Required)
- Bilingual - Spanish/English (written/verbal). (Preferred)
Experience / Knowledge
- Knowledge of School Social Work policies and procedures.
- Leadership skills in working with individuals and groups (i.e. initiating individual or group discussion, listening, clarifying, and facilitating interactions and sharing ideas).
- Skills in socio-environmental analysis and diagnosis of students with social / emotional concerns.
- Knowledge of current state laws and regulations regarding proficiency standards.
- Previous School Social Work experience (Preferred).
Terms of Employment
- Nine-month position (184 work days).
- Salary and benefits as established by the Board of Education and The Elgin Agreement.
- The starting salary for this role is $60,689.
How this job compares
Set against the 3,381 open Social Worker jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$61K/yr
- US median$68–94K/yr989 salary ranges
This rate, $61K, is 24% below the US median midpoint ($80K) — in the lowest quarter of Social Worker salary ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 61 open Social Worker jobs in Illinois and 3,381 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Illinois
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- Experience
- Social Worker postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (1,642 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a master's degree; 1,782 of the 3,381 open Social Worker jobs (53%) ask for a master's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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