EES Transitional Social Worker

Position Type:
Secondary
Date Posted: 10/31/2025

Location:

EES (Extended Educ. Services)

Licensed Master’s in Social Work LMSW
Licensed in Social Work LSW
Licensed in Clinical Social Work LCSW

Reports To:

Principal of EES
FSLA Status:
Exempt
Compensation: 912
Work Days: 196
FTE: 100

SOC:
EES Transitional Social Worker

Is responsible for coordinating plans with administration, special education providers, families and students to align services with needs in a manner that is consistent with state and federal special education regulations. This position serves to support the Alternative Learning Environments offered through the district. It also collaborates with building level administration, the supervisor of Alternative Programs and district level administration as well as community partners to develop programs to meet the unique needs of students with alternative learning needs in Oklahoma City Public Schools and EES facilities in conjunction with educators, families, students, and representatives of community organizations.

• Plans, coordinates, delivers, and evaluates transition education and services who experience a significant impact to their education due to behavior and social skills.
• Collaborates with teachers to develop and implement appropriate behavior plans, as well as, provides direct support and modeling of instruction to meet the behavior goals of the students.
• Provides follow up to ensure that all students, in regular/special education categories, who are released from EES facilities, are reenrolled in home school settings.
• Ensures that home school settings are notified and aware of student release and needed services.
• Follows the regulations associated with IDEA, FAPE, procedural safeguards, and IEP development and implementation.
• Meets with teachers to help interpret and produce special education documentation requirements and assigns a case manager from each youth’s local school to coordinate his or her reenrollment with a team of EES and Receiving School staff, so the student, the student’s needs, and the student’s records are not lost in the system.
• Establishes a task force to explore electronic information exchange.
• Advocates for returning youth and their families who experience inappropriate or unfair barriers.
• Takes a lead role in file maintenance, monitoring of service provision, coordination of services, assistive technology to enhance student access to the general curriculum.
• Develops procedures for prerelease information sharing.
• Schedules prerelease visit by the student to the receiving school.
• Coordinates admission interview conducted with reentering students and their parents, and transitional counseling.
• Assists in the planning and conducting of workshops and other in-service programs to help raise the level of understanding of alternative settings and transition needs for Students with disabilities.
• Assists with the creation of current special education support guides and materials to be distributed among the instructional staff and building administration.
• Ensures smooth transitions that focuses on appropriate placement may include:
  Therapeutic support with Ongoing monitoring and evaluation of progress.
• Stays informed of new information, innovative ideas and techniques.
• Sees that school district policies are observed during all activities.
• Obtains advance approval for all special activities and expenditures.
• Adheres to all district health and safety policies.
• Supports and enhances the use of assistive technology to increase access to the general curriculum and reduce the impact of identified students’ disabilities.
• Assists providers in designing and implementing special services activities and related documents that conform to federal, state and district guidelines.
• Provides formal and informal approaches for identifying students’ interests and preferences related to school goals and educational experiences.
• Implements, and uses program evaluation procedures to assess and improve the effectiveness of education and services, including evaluation of students’ school outcomes.
• Implements transition planning strategies that facilitate information collection and…