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

• Less experience candidates may be consider for Social Worker position.

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