Social Worker (SSF-R)

About the role

Provide intensive, home-based intervention and support to reunify children and young persons (CYPs) in out-of-home care back to their families in a safe, timely and sustainable manner.

Key responsibilities

• Engage CYP and significant others (e.g. family, caregivers, etc.) in a therapeutic manner to understand their needs
• Manage and overcome reluctance and resistance to change
• Develop professional and engaged relationships with CYP, family and other key programme stakeholders (e.g. doctors, nurses, counsellors, Family Service Centres (FSCs), Homes, etc.)
• Conduct needs assessment and risk assessment in accordance to the programme framework (e.g. Use of tools such as SDM, Partnering for Safety, etc.)
• Provide home-based intervention and support to families
• Develop appropriate reunification case plans that is inclusive of the CYP and family's opinions
• Conceptualise and identify appropriate approaches and other intervention strategies that achieve the overall case plan of each client
• Work closely with multi-disciplinary team and/or agencies to deliver case plans
• Represent CYP in case conferences
• Draft social reports for cases to be reviewed by supervisor and ensure documentation are in place

About you

• Minimum degree in Social Work with minimum 2 years of related work experience
• Demonstrates good knowledge in working with children, youth and families
• Shows capability to manage issues of complex child welfare cases
• Demonstrates understanding of reunification work, trauma, attachment and resilience theory, and child and adolescent development
• Willingness to meet with families outside regular work hours and to attend to crises in a timely matter
• Receptive to feedback from others with a willingness to improve and grow oneself
• Good communication and interpersonal skills – able to work individually and within a team, relate easily to other people, particularly children, and form positive working relationships
• Ability to communicate in English and relevant local languages/dialects is an advantage for engaging with children, youth and families
• Strengths based, strong ability to collaborate with systems, birth families, foster families and care agencies, culturally competent, committed, insightful and reflective