Senior Social Worker - Mental Health (Post Diagnostics Support) - Bedok

The Senior Social Worker provide comprehensive social services and support to individuals and their families. This role involves assessing the social, emotional, and practical needs of seniors, developing care plans, and coordinating services to enhance the well-being and quality of life for the clients. The Senior Social Worker will work collaboratively with healthcare teams, community organizations, and families to ensure holistic care and support for seniors in various care settings. The Senior Social Worker also provide supervisions to junior staff in managing casework and other related support work to the clients.

Casework Management

• Conduct assessments of the clients and caregivers to determine their social, emotional, health and physical needs. Review case notes and documents
• Develop and implement individualised care plans and interventions
• Provide holistic and integrated care for clients and caregivers through basic emotional support, monitoring, service linkage and conducting meaningful activities
• Prepare case recordings and social reports
• Evaluate progress and effectiveness of casework interventions
• Conduct closure of cases upon achieving sustainable service outcomes for clients, families and communities

Stakeholder Engagement and Partnerships

• Build professional relationships with clients, significant others and other professionals
• Participate in outreach to community partners to strengthen support and care coordination to address service gaps and service delivery issues
• Evaluate progress and effectiveness of the collaboration efforts for the programme

Programme and Staff Management

• Support in managing the social service programme / service, including monitoring the progress and performance
• Provide supervision and guidance to junior staff in the team and look into their professional development needs

Educational Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work, Counselling or a related fi eld of study from an accredited institution.

Relevant Experience

• At least 3 - 5 years of casework experiences
• Accredited as Registered Social Worker with Singapore Association of Social Workers would be an advantage

Competencies

• The holder of this position to possess an intermediate-advanced level of knowledge and abilities for the following areas:

o Advocacy and Representation

o Case and Care Planning

o Casework Evaluation

o Casework Intervention

o Collaborative Practices Across Disciplines and Sectors

o Diversity Awareness and Management

o Emergency Response and Crisis Management

o Ethics, Values and Legislation

o Group Work Assessment and Planning

o Group Work Evaluation

o Group Work Intervention

o Practice Supervision

o Professional Consultation

o Refl exive Practice

o Research Data Collection and Management

o Resilience and Self-care

o Social Sector Policy Infl uence

o Social Service Programme Development

o Social Service Programme Evaluation

o Social Service Programme Implementation

o Stakeholder Management

o Trends Evaluation and Application

• People-Oriented and have good interpersonal skills
• Excellent oral and written communications skills
• Analytical ability & problem-solving skills to analyse information quickly and accurately, and formulate decisions and make recommendations
• Ability to be flexible/ creative in devising alternative solutions to issues
• Committed and can-do attitude
• Effective report writing skills

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Morgan McKinley Pte Ltd

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