Percent Employed: 100%
Months of Employment: 10
Position Type: Continuing
Level of Benefits: Full benefits
Pay Range: State Salary Salary Schedule + [10.5% - 18% local supplement]
Position Purpose: The School Social Worker (SSW)/Student Support Counselor (SSC) promotes and enhances the overall academic mission by providing services that strengthen home, school, and community partnerships and address barriers to learning and achievement. The SSW or SSC significantly contributes to the development of a healthy, safe, and caring environment. Such an environment is achieved by advancing the understanding of the emotional and social development of children and the influences of family, community, and cultural differences on student success along with the implementation of effective intervention strategies.
Minimum Degree Level: A minimum of a bachelor's degree in social work from a college or university accredited by the CSWE, OR a master's degree in school counseling; A valid NC School Social Work Educator's license, or the ability to earn one within 3 years of hire, OR a valid NC School Counselor License; Or such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable. Provisional Licensed Pathways: If you are offered a position with BCS, our licensure specialist can share information on the School Social Worker Provisional license.
Job Description: School Social Worker / Student Support Counselor
Email our licensure specialist, shonda.haynes@bcsemail.org, if you have licensure questions. Email the School or Department for specific job questions.
Buncombe County Schools is the state's 13th largest school system and the largest district in Western North Carolina. We employ nearly 3,800 people and serve more than 24,500 students, making BCS the county's second largest employer. More than 55 different languages are spoken in our 44 schools.
Buncombe County rests in a central area of a high plateau bordered by the Blue Ridge, Great Craggy, and Black Mountains on the East and the Great Smokies chain of the Appalachians on the West. Sprawling over seven hundred and seventy square miles of valley lowlands and mountain coves, Buncombe County is home to over 206,000 residents. Asheville, located at the confluence of the French Broad and Swannanoa Rivers, is the county seat as well as the economic and cultural center of Western North Carolina. Buncombe County enjoys a broadly based economy supported by a thriving tourist and convention enterprise, widely diversified industry, forestry and agriculture.
