Job Description

The Senior Social Worker is an experienced professional in the field of social work. In addition to performing the key tasks required of a social worker, he or she should be:

• Qualified to provide supervision within the company
• Aable to perform community development work and harness resources with stakeholders, develop interventions and programmes within the organisation
• Conduct needs assessment and risk assessment for complex cases by taking into account the integration of a range of information independently
• Provide consultations for assessment of cases with risk issues
• Prepare social reports and ensure documentations are in place
• Acquire competencies as defined within the department’s Competency Framework
• Support or co-lead review of complex and risk cases in the department
• Work closely with multi-disciplinary team or agencies to deliver care and case plans
• Lead case conferences as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Provide supervision of group work planning and facilitation through modelling, observations and debrief etc
• Review group work reports and evaluations
• Provide supervision of community work through modelling, observations and debrief etc
• Conduct skill-based education and trainings for fresh and junior social workers and other related professions
• Manage and oversee the end-to-end development and delivery of programmes
• Carry out any other duties as assigned by HOD or Supervisor

Candidate Requirements Technical Competencies:

• Bachelor, Postgraduate Diploma or Master in Social Work
• At least 6 years experience in relevant field of social work practice, especially casework and counselling, group work and community work
• Registered Social Worker

Core Competencies:

• Proficient in oral and written communication, especially English
• Good interpersonal and teamwork skills
• Demonstrate sound and updated professional knowledge and skills in social work
• Strong Clinical and supervision skills

Preferred achievements / characteristics:

• Good analytical skills
• Effective leadership skills

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for an interview.