SY 2025-26 Social Worker

At Nuasin Next Generation, we believe in the unlimited talent and intellectual potential of our scholars and our community. We cultivate this talent and intellectual potential through a progressive education that focuses on deep exploration, thoughtful questioning, relentless curiosity and critical thinking. Nuasin Next Generation Charter School implements a progressive K-12 educational program and an unyielding commitment to cultivating our scholars’ innate intellectual talents to empower our graduates to achieve excellence in their postsecondary paths and make positive impacts on the broader community. Every single one of our scholars has the potential to be great and change the world, at Nuasin Next Generation we prepare our scholars for that opportunity.

Nuasin Next Generation Charter School is in search of motivated, mission-aligned individuals that want to join us in providing the scholars and families of the Highbridge section of the Bronx  with the truly excellent school they need and deserve.  We are looking for educators that believe in the talent and intellectual capabilities of our scholars.  We are looking for educators that are excited to engage and ignite our scholars in deep intellectual engagement of great ideas, problem-solving activities, and a complex understanding of our academic content. Nuasin is a school and community that cares about your why and expects you to bring passion, commitment, and respect to our scholars on a daily basis.  Below is a description of the teaching positions that are currently available.  Please reply to this email or contact us if Nuasin is the right place for you. 

The anticipated salary range is $70,000.00 to $110,000.00 for a candidate who will work in New York City. The salary offered to a successful candidate will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to years of experience to the job, education, and certifications.

Social Worker/School Counselor provides support services to scholars, staff, and parents. Support services include referrals, counseling, assessment, diagnostics, and report writing. The essential functions for our social workers/ school counselors consist of the following five critical areas:

School Culture

• Completes assessments, referrals, and counseling with scholars and families.
• Serves as a member of school-based teams to provide support to families.
• Implement Professional Development for Teachers. 
• Assist in School Events when needed. 
• Model the core values of Nuasin Next Generation Charter School at all times; be a visible and highly engaged leader in the school community. 
• Support a school culture of high behavioral expectations that enables a consistent focus on academic results
• Support all staff around behavior management, classroom culture, and school wide systems. 
• Liaison with teaching and administrative staff to support scholars.
• Provide at risk services for scholars individually and in small groups around individualized behavior goals to manage crisis intervention. 
• Communicate and reinforce explicit and high behavioral expectations based on our Core Values. 
• Work closely and effectively with scholars who have behavior challenges; partner with the Culture team, teachers and families to execute individualized behavior interventions when needed. 
• Member of the Building Crisis Response Team. 
• Research and develop character education plan to inform Advisory lessons (in HS).
• Research and develop character education and other initiatives as needed (in K-8). 

Management

• Manage the implementation of social emotional curriculum
• Manage ACS and other support agencies to support scholars receiving services and assist ACS representatives, when needed.
• Participate in regularly scheduled position meetings and check in meetings with the Culture team to ensure the school’s successful implementation of best practices, and shared, mission-aligned professional development.  
• Ensure smooth operation of the schoolwide systems and routines that support scholars, teachers and families. 
• Serves as school’s McKinney Vento Liaison.

Counseling 

• Counseling scholars with personal and psychological issues that affect their performance, behavior, and socialization in school. 
• Providing counseling sessions, treatment plans, or workshops as necessary and establishing prevention programs and intervention plans. 
• Assisting teachers and administrators with behavioral and attitude issues by communicating with scholars to find the causes of their distress. 
• Providing information, when appropriate, to outside support services to help scholars with economic, emotional, or physical issues. 
• Assisting at-risk scholars or scholars with disabilities. 
• Communicating with parents, teachers, and administrators to understand scholars’ challenges.
• Helping scholars and families suffering from abuse, violence, hunger, or homelessness to access resources like shelters, food banks, and medical care. 

Adult Learning and Coaching

• Attend regularly scheduled check in meetings with teachers to provide tier 1 social/emotional support for their classroom culture and provide feedback pertaining to scholars social and emotional wellbeing. 
• Educate staff in areas where emotional issues affect educational progress.

Community Engagement

• Provide regularly scheduled office hours to provide accessibility to support for families. 
• Follow a consistent schedule for availability during arrival and dismissal. 
• Support and collaborate with structures that establish families as partners including the Parent association, Family Conferences, classroom and school-wide and network wide family events during and after school as needed. 
• Support and create workshops and seminars for families as needed. 
• Collaborate with the Culture team to provide resources about educational and recreational opportunities.  
• Be well versed in community resources that support physical and mental health. 
• Connect families to social services and community resources.
• Seek out professional resources and attend professional development to meet the needs of Nuasin scholars to continuously improve practice.