Assistant Manager (YDC)

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

The Children and Youth Group (CYG) in The Salvation Army Singapore serves hundreds of vulnerable children and youth yearly. In line with our vision to provide a continuum of care to uplift those in need, our services span from preventive services, foster care and residential services to reunification support services for vulnerable children returning to their natural families after being removed due to safety concerns. We believe that every child is precious and unique and children grow best in families. We also believe in the potential of every child and family to transform and thrive.

The Youth Development Centre is one of CYG’s services and reaches out to latch-key young people from low to middle income families to guide them towards a more purposeful life, live out their dreams and contribute well to society. 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.

We run a drop-in centre to provide young people in the community with a safe and conducive place to hang out. We also run youth mental health programmes such as resilience building to help youth thrive. Through our youth mental health programmes we reach out to youth in the community as well as at risk youth in residential care. We also provide supervised access services for vulnerable children and youth. Further, Youth Development Centre is also an incubator for new services such as youth mental health.

RESPONSIBILITIES

About the job

Youth Development Centre will provide youth mental health programmes, runs a drop in centre and provides specialized supervision for access of child protection involved children with their parents. We are growing our youth mental health services and are looking for a passionate and dynamic Assistant Manager to join us.

You should be a dynamic professional who likes to “make things happen”, a good team player, a people-centric team manager and someone who has the passion for youth mental health, with a family-centric lens.

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Youth Mental Health Outreach and Support:

1. Lead and support your team to provide evidence-based programmes and services.
2. Provide professional supervision in the development of preventive and remedial programmes and services to support mental health concerns among youths, families, and in the communities.
3. Front outreach to community partners and enable excellent reach of our programmes and services.
4. Lead the development and execution of programmes and provide support through case management and group work, for youths and their families with low and moderate mental health concerns. We have a mental health resilience building programme and you are to ensure that this is executed and implemented well.
5. Lead the development of a parent support programme for those with children who have mental health concerns.
6. Develop programmes in the digital and social media space.
7. Oversee and ensure proper operations and processes are in place for screening and referrals.
8. Oversee and conduct appropriate case management and clinical support for cases that require intervention, according to practice standards.
9. Provide program and case supervision to your team and facilitate professional development.
10. Work closely with our Centre of Psychological and Counselling Services to ensure programmes are evidence-informed and the services provided can meet the clinical needs.

2. Drop in Centre

1. Develop the drop-in centre into a strong asset for community youth mental health.
2. Oversee the development of and smooth running of a programme calendar.

3. Specialised Access Services

1. Oversee the provision of safe and conducive supervision services for Child Protection involved children who are having access/visits with their families.
2. Ensure and manage a good pool of locum case workers to take on cases referred to us.
3. Ensure that administration is properly done to enable proper accounting.

4. Management and other duties

1. Play an active role and be a great team asset as a leader in the Children and Youth Group.
2. Reporting to the Assistant Director/Community Services and Mental Health, work closely with management to plan strategies for development of YDC, including community needs assessment, programme development and implementation, evaluations and funding approaches.
3. Develop and grow excellent partnerships and collaborations with key stakeholders.
4. Oversee a team of staff and create a positive and conducive culture.
5. Source and manage funds to sustain YDC’s work.
6. Ensure all funding requirements are met, and administration and case recordings are properly done.
7. Manage YDC’s finances and facilities.
8. Work closely with all internal partners to enable proper reporting and processes adhere to TSA’s requirements.

QUALIFICATIONS

• A degree/post graduate degree in social work.

Job Requirements

• Experience in youth and family mental health work.
• Record in effective outreach, program development, and case management for youth and families.
• Good leadership and management skills.
• At least 5 years of work experience with 2 years of supervision. The manager position will require more experience.
• Excellent collaborator and team player.