Social Worker Association For Life of Africa

A social worker should be able to help children cope with the challenges they are facing in their lives.

Duties & Responsibilities

Typical job duties include the following:

• Providing mental health counseling to children individually , groups or families
• Researching and advocating for appropriate public assistance resources for children
• Communicating with children care teams
• Providing crisis intervention as needed
• Referring children to appropriate treatment centers, as may be needed
• Ensuring that all case files, and other records, strictly comply with policies, regulations, and procedures
• Coordinating treatment planning and maintaining ongoing contact with children
• Actively participating in ongoing training as needed in order to meet all certification standards and credentialing policies

In general, as a social workers you should be able to help children assess and solve problems in their lives. These challenges range from physical and mental illness to child care and crises such as domestic violence. Additional duties may be assigned to you depending on the need at that time

Skills & Competencies

• Service Orientation: A strong desire to help children is essential.
• Active listening: You must give children your full attention whenever meeting with them.
• Verbal communication: Children will be depending on you to convey information to them, their families, and other service providers.
• Interpersonal skills: In addition to listening and speaking skills, you also need social skills so you connect with children.
• Time management and organizational skills: Given the large caseload that most social workers have, these skills are essential.
• Critical thinking: You must be able to weigh the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions when helping children solve problems.

Qualifications

• Female.
• 35 years and above.
• Computer literate.
• Team player.
• Disaster management is an added advantage.

Education and experience: Bachelor’s degree plus at least three years of related experience preferred.

The ideal candidate should have at least 3 – 5 years of experience working in a similar role.

Knowledge and understanding: broad knowledge of social work issues and trends across the field.

Strong written/oral communication skills.

Comfortable with public speaking and meeting facilitation; and

Ability to write impeccably