Thye Hua Kwan Moral Charities – Assistant Senior Social Worker / Senior Social Worker

Clinical Aspects

• Provide social work services, including casework management, groupwork, counselling, home/site visits, and conduct assessment interviews on clients and their family members
• Develop, implement and review of individualised care plans with the multi-disciplinary team
• Conduct comprehensive assessments of client care and financial needs, and submit NMTS and MFEC applications as required
• Manage emergency response and crisis management with regards to clients’ behaviour management with the multi-disciplinary team
• Work with the team to manage crisis placements by Child Protective Services or Adult Protective Services
• Provide caregiver support and organise relevant caregiver's engagement sessions. Build good rapport with relevant stakeholders and external agencies to mobilize resources to meet the client’s needs
• Manage complex cases such as clients with a history of trauma or abuse
• Oversee the development, implementation and review of individualised care plans with the multi-disciplinary team
• Provide supervision, guidance and coaching to supervisees Meet with supervisees on a regular basis and participates in supervision and performance evaluation

Process and Resources Aspects: 

• Maintain accurate and timely updates of case recordings, client profiles and other related case work management processes
• Adhere to the standard operating procedures and case work practices
• Maintain and compile statistics for reporting, funding or audit purposes
• Ensure the smooth running of all related processes for case work management
• Enforce and maintain consistent processes and practices for social work team
• Develop, review and implement new improved processes and systems for the social work team
• Ensure the timely submission of statistical reports by the Home to Government agencies for management reporting, funding or audit purposes
• Ensure the timely submission of monthly case notes, timely development and review of individualized care plans, timely application and renewal of NMTS, and MFEC

Qualifications

• Degree in Social Work/ Post Graduate in Social Work

Other Information

• At least two years’ experience working in the social service sector, preferably with clients with disability, neurocognitive and/or mental health issues (For Assistant Senior Social Worker)
• At least two years’ supervisory experience in the social service sector (For Senior Social Worker)
• Good teamwork and interpersonal skills with the ability to work in a multidisciplinary team; and a high level of integrity