Job Summary:
Social Workers in TOUCH Family Support play a crucial role in enabling low-income families by (1) working directly with clients to address the immediate and long-term issues they face and (2) working with the surrounding community to better support the underprivileged.
Principal Responsibilities and Duties:
- Conduct intake and risk assessments for cases.
- Provide Case Management services to clients from low-income families and/or disadvantaged backgrounds.
- Complete case documentation(e.g. case notes, update database, etc.) accurately and promptly.
- Developing, implementing, maintaining and evaluating programmes that meet client’s needs.
- Conduct Group work.
- Community outreach to and engagement of low-income families.
- Network and work collaboratively with stakeholders and community partners.
- Research to build domain-specific knowledge.
Working Conditions:
- 5 day work week: Mon - Fri
- Able to work on weekends when required.
- Location - North / Northeast
Essential Skills and Qualifications:
- Bachelor or Postgraduate Diploma in Social Work or relevant qualification.
- Registered Social Worker preferred with minimum 2 years of case work experience.
- Trained in usage of CSWP preferred (BPSS and FAST tool assessment).
- Good communication, interpersonal and facilitation skills.
- Excellent team player with good interpersonal skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications.
- Practices cultural sensitivity when engaging families and successful in motivating clients in working on case management plan.
- Able to work independently and handles administration.
- Able to work on weekends when required.