About the job
As a member of the team Youth Development Centre, you will be key in facilitating change and improving lives of our vulnerable children and youth and their families. You will also be instrumental in growing and implementing this befriender’s programme to support the preservations/reunifications of children who are at risk or have been in fostering or children’s homes to their families, as well as those from our drop in services.
We are looking for someone with a “Can Do” spirit who is creative in problem solving and with a passion for making a difference vulnerable children and families. You will also need to be experienced in working with clients with child protection risks and have that special ability to connect and inspire volunteers.
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
- Supervision of Social Workers
Job Requirements
- Bachelor Degree/Graduate Diploma in Social Work is a mandatory
Preferred Candidate Attributes
- Member of Singapore Association of Social Workers is preferred
- Keen to work in children and youth sector
- A good communicator
- Work in collaboration with the team
- 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
Working Hours
Mon to Friday – 10 am to 7 pm, Saturday 10 am to 2 pm
Work Location
The Salvation Army Youth Development Centre
Blk 65 Kallang Bahru #01-305 Singapore 330065
The Youth Development Centre reaches out to latch-key young people from low to middle income families to guide them towards a more purposeful life.
As an outreach centre, the staff and volunteers engage the youth with a variety of sports, music and social activities to impart life skills that will help them build a strong foundation for their future.
The centre also has organised activities such as Arts & Crafts workshops, music classes to various sporting activities to engage the youth. Guest speakers who are accomplished and have excelled in their area of expertise are occasionally invited to conduct training and interactive activities for the young people.
We also function as a drop-in centre to provide young people in the community with a safe and conducive place to study. The youths that visit the centre mostly live or study in the Kallang or Geylang Bahru area.
With a holistic programme, Youth Development Centre aims to bring out the young people’s leadership qualities and hone their life skills so as to empower them to live their dreams and contribute to society.
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