Social Worker

Location: Sandringham, Johannesburg- Position Type: Permanent**Purpose of the Job**:
To promote, maintain, and develop the psychosocial functioning of clients in the community (individuals and families).

**Role and Responsibilities**:
**_Case Work _**
- Providing counselling for individuals, children, couples and families
- Conducting assessments for admission to the facilities
- Preparing necessary documentation and reports relating to statutory intervention when required
- Conducting hospital visits as appropriate
- Conducting home visits
- Completing relevant reports
- Maintain file records
- Holding case conferences / family meetings (collaborating with the multidisciplinary team as needed)
- Crisis Management, relevant follow up and monitoring as required, which may require working afterhours and on weekends
- Case management of client circumstances
- Assess, implement and monitor family preservation and parenting programmes
- Provide therapeutic interventions and programmes in respect of mandatory cases

**_Group Work _**
- Organizing and conducting groups to meet common identified psychosocial needs (This incorporates promotive, preventative, educative, and therapeutic forms of group work).
- Conducting needs analysis and developing proposals accordingly
- Drafting group session and other relevant reports and statistics

**_Community Work _**
- Providing relevant activities in collaboration with the community development social worker
- Providing relevant psychosocial presentations to learners in schools
- Identifying needs for community services and developing appropriate initiatives in terms of these needs / gaps
- Facilitating the community work process
- Establishing, maintaining and evaluation of relevant programmes
- Maintaining files and records appropriately
- Compiling relevant presentations as necessary

**Education**
- Sharing of knowledge in order to further the development of volunteers, students and members of the public
- Supervision of and providing consultation to students &volunteers,
- Providing public education on psychosocial matters
- Speaking at, writing articles for, arranging, and/or participating in seminars and conferences as appropriate

**Professional development / Functioning**
- Maintaining and developing appropriate professional qualifications, skills, knowledge related to field of work
- Furthering own professional development by making use of internal and external development opportunities
- Demonstrating insight and experience in initiating and sustaining effective therapeutic relationships
- Attending regular supervision meetings. The supervisor / consultant and supervisee / consultee share responsibility for facilitating an effective working relationship. Parties in this relationship must contract on the goals, structures and nature of this process, and must have regular evaluations of the process. Supervision discussions focus on support/professional development and monitoring
- Attending conferences, lectures and workshops
- Attending group and/or individual consultation with appointed consultants

**Collaboration with Multidisciplinary Team**

**Liaison with external affiliates / organizations**

**Ad hoc tasks / Administration**
- Ensuring all information regarding clients, groups, and other projects are appropriately maintained
- Maintaining of records and statistics
- General administrative work
- Attending and participation in staff meetings
- Writing relevant reports as appropriate
- Liaising with and reporting to the relevant internal and external stakeholders
- teams to ensure the facility receives services required according to care standards

Providing feedback to relevant teams when required.

**Qualifications and Education Requirements**:

- Matric
- Bachelor of Social Work (Degree)
- Registered with the South African Counsel for Social Service Professions

**Preferred Skills**:

- Own transport essential
- Computer skills in Word, Excel and PowerPoint required
- Excellent communication skills
- Good command of the English language
- Current registration with relevant Professional Body is essential