Summary:
Provide and lead social work intervention and project/event management to support the work in the Day Activity Centre/Sheltered Workshop for persons with disabilities.
Casework Management
- Administer financial assistance and/or seek deviation for clients to allow them to participate maximally in the DAC programme as needed.
- Conduct assessment of severity, key risks and protective factors for intervention (if necessary, Home Visit) provide counselling services to help clients and caregivers to manage issues associated with their disabilities to enable maximally independent community living.
- This could involve maintaining case history information, psychosocial assessment, social work treatment plans, and writing social reports according to required documentation standard.
- Provide consult and support for social workers for above. Evaluate progress and effectiveness of their interventions.
- Work with therapists, training officers, and caregivers within a multi-disciplinary context to plan and implement client's individualized care plan.
- Network with other agencies to tap on community resources to provide intervention support to clients.
- For each client, explore and document care planning intentions with caregivers.
- Conduct closure of cases upon achieving sustainable service outcomes for clients.
Community Work
- Identify the changing trends/needs of the landscape pertaining to the PWDs and coordinate community resources to enable maximally independent community living.
- Network with relevant referral agencies and stakeholders serving PWDs and be part of the outreach efforts.
Group Work
- Support social workers to plan, develop, implement and review curriculum, psycho-educational training and group work for PWDs and/or their caregivers as necessary.
- Supervise facilitation of group work interventions and evaluate progress and effectiveness of group work interventions across the organization
Project management
- Support social workers to plan events such as SPD open house or caregivers appreciation day or other projects as assigned.
- Support and lead social workers to plan, develop, implement and review curriculum for Enabling Skills & Living Programme
Professional Development
- Lead and support Lead Social Worker in developmental programs and supervision for personal and professional growth & development.
- Maintain minimum requirements for renewal of membership with professional association
Admin Duties
- Coverage as needed for programme head / supervisor with programme accountability reporting duties.
- Other duties as required/assigned by the supervisor or Head of Division.
JOB HOLDER REQUIREMENT
- Hold a degree in Social Work from recognized institutions
- Have excellent communication and interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to build relationships.
- Preferably have minimum 7 years experience in social work with some experience in disability sector.
- Have minimum of 3 years experience in supervision.
