Roles & Responsibilities
- An experienced professional who is insightful, resourceful, responsible and willing to mentor and supervise a team of social workers, social work associate/caseworker(s).
- Maintain a caseload as assigned by the Head of Home and provide individual casework, group-work intervention action plans including behavioural management of residents in care.
- Develop and facilitate group work for residents with the social team
- Monitor the residents’ progress in the Home and develop an Individualised Care Plan for each resident to work towards the eventual rehabilitation and reintegration into the community.
- Mobilise community resources and serve as a link between the resident and these resource systems as necessary.
- Coordinate social services through the case management approach by working with other professionals and non-professionals significantly involved in the care of the resident.
- Conduct home visit for a safety assessment of the home leave environment.
- Prepare and vet all internal and external reports (ICP, Review Committee, Discharge, etc) and attend relevant meetings
- Assist and oversee the development and the implementation of programmes/events relating to residents’ rehabilitation, wellbeing and volunteers’ management. Conduct evaluation of such programmes/ events and suggest areas of improvement, if necessary.
- Keep and maintain up-to-date records, reports and reviews of such programmes/events.
Requirements
- Must possess Degree in Social Work/Graduate Diploma in Social Work
- Must be willing to work with male destitute persons with Psychiatric conditions living in an institution
- Registered with SASW Accreditation Board is preferred with at least 5 years of experience
- Good report writing and interpersonal skills
- A good team player
- Demonstrate expertise in Casework, which involves end-to-end engagement with stakeholders, case assessment, goal-setting, the design, implementation and review of intervention plans, and documentation of case information. Play a contributory role in Group Work, Community Work and Programme Development in the organisation
COMPETENCY AND PROFICIENCY LEVEL
Must-Have Competencies
- Advocacy and Representation – Level 5
- Case and Care Planning – Level 5
- Casework Evaluation – Level 5
- Social Service Programme Development – Level 5
- Social Service Programme Evaluation – Level 5
- Social Service Programme Implementation – Level 5
- Stakeholder Management – Level 5
Good-To-Have Competencies
- Collaborative Practices Across Disciplines and Sectors – Level 5
- Diversity Awareness and Management – Level 5
- Emergency Response and Crisis Management – Level 5
- Ethics, Values and Legislation – Level 5
- Practice Supervision – Level 5
Critical Core Skills
- Communication - Intermediate
- Developing People - Advanced
- Collaboration - Advanced
- Adaptability - Advanced
- Decision Making – Advanced
- For more information, please refer to Technical Skills and Competency (TSCs) and Critical Core Skills (CCSs) in Skills Framework for Social Service Industry via this website https://www.skillsfuture.gov.sg/skills-framework/social-service
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