Job Description

COMPANY DESCRIPTION
Peacehaven Nursing Home provides compassionate, individualized, holistic care to all without discrimination. We offer a comprehensive gamut of services to care for the sick, frail and elderly who have physical or mental disabilities with minimal or no appropriate caregiver support at home. The Home has 14 separate Resident Living Areas (RLAs), each designed as an individual home-like environment. Hope RLA is specially designed to meet the needs of relatively independent residents with dementia.Peacehaven Nursing Home has also been awarded the bizSAFE level 3 status which affirms our commitment to safety and health standards at the workplace. The Salvation Army, Singapore - Peacehaven Nursing Home
DESIGNATION : Social Worker (PHAAB)

RESPONSIBILITIES
About the Job As a member of the Social Work team, you are expected to maintain a caseload as assigned by senior staff members and provide individual casework, group and family work intervention action plans including behavioural management of clients in care.
Key Responsibilities

• Participate in social work practice across disciplines
• Build rapport and professional relationships with clients and significant others
• Conduct needs and intake assessments
• Perform case and care planning and goal setting
• Implement case and care plans and interventions
• Review casework interventions for improvements
• Conduct closure of cases upon achieving sustainable service outcomes for clients, families and communities
• Maintain case notes and documents
• Prepare social work reports
• Conduct environmental scans and community need assessments
• Collaborate with other agencies to pool community resources
• Support development of community development initiatives
• Implement community development initiatives
• Review community development initiatives for improvements
• Perform the development and planning of programmes to address service gaps
• Implement programmes
• Support evaluation of programmes
• Develop own self-care plans
• Guide volunteers and placement students in their work
• Support the professional development of staff within the organisation
• Participate in research to uplift the professional practice in social work
• Support the implementation of standards of care, organisational health policies, procedures and programmes
• Identify areas of improvement in models of care and service delivery based on evidence-based practices
• Respond to crisis situations based on organisational standard operating procedures
• Provide social work supervision for junior social worker

Competencies

• Advocacy and Representation
• Case and Care Planning
• Casework Evaluation
• Casework Intervention
• Collaborative Practices Across Disciplines and Sectors
• Diversity Awareness and Management
• Emergency Response and Crisis Management
• Ethics, Values and Legislation
• Practice Supervision
• Professional Consultation
• Reflexive Practice
• Research Data Collection and Management
• Resilience and Self-care
• Social Sector Policy Influence
• Social Service Programme Development
• Social Service Programme Evaluation
• Social Service Programme Implementation
• Stakeholder Management
• Trends Evaluation and Application

QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor Degree/Graduate Diploma in Social Work is a mandatory
Job Requirements

• 5 years experience as Social Worker
• An accredited Registered Social Workers by the Social Work Accreditation and Advisory Board

OTHER INFORMATION
Working Hours Under normal circumstances the hours of duty will be as follows: 8.30am to 5.45pm (Monday \xe2\x80\x93 Friday, 45 minutes Break inclusive)
Working Location Peacehaven Bedok Arena, The Salvation Army Block 187, #01-02 Bedok North Street 4, Singapore 460187