Social Worker

SHINE Children and Youth Services; Singapore; On-site; SGD 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

SHINE Children and Youth Services invites qualified social workers to join our Islandwide team to deliver casework, group work, and school-based interventions for children and youth. You will assess needs, plan interventions, and collaborate with families and partners to support clients.

We value strong communication, teamwork, adaptability, and a proactive, learning mindset. Singaporean applicants are preferred; shortlisted candidates will be notified.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Team player, able to work independently.
• Adaptable, quick-thinking, and responsive to change.
• Enthusiastic, self-motivated, and keen to learn.
• Enjoys working with children and youth.
• Experience delivering programmes in MOE schools is an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Casework; assess and provide intervention; evaluate practice.
• Engage clients and families; develop action plans.
• Engage other agencies to support the client holistically.
• Ensure documentation and report-writing.
• Group work: plan, implement, and evaluate.
• Programme development and implementation with theory of change.
• Monitor outcomes; manage programme budget; ensure cost effectiveness.

Skills

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Team player

Adaptability

Willingness to learn

Enthusiastic

MOE programme experience

Job description

• Please do not include personal data such as NRIC number, date of birth, or residential address in your resume
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• A team player and equally adept at working independently
• Quick thinking, adaptable and responsive to change
• Pleasant disposition with a willingness to learn
• Enthusiastic and self-motivated
• Enjoys working with children and youth
• Experience delivering programmes in MOE schools or familiarity with MOE requirements will be an advantage.

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Roles & Responsibilities

• Please do not include personal data such as NRIC number, date of birth, or residential address in your resume

Personnel Specification

• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• A team player and equally adept at working independently
• Quick thinking, adaptable and responsive to change
• Pleasant disposition with a willingness to learn
• Enthusiastic and self-motivated
• Enjoys working with children and youth
• Experience delivering programmes in MOE schools or familiarity with MOE requirements will be an advantage.

Key Responsibility Areas

• Casework
• Utilise relevant theories into practice
• Engage, assess, provide intervention and evaluate practice
• Assess client’s needs, level of functioning and system intervention
• Understand client groups and manage associated risk and protective factors
• Demonstrate reflective practice
• Conduct outreach and engage client’s family, where applicable, to develop action plans to support the client
• Engage other relevant agencies to support the client holistically
• Ensure proper documentation and report-writing
• Group Work
• Prepare and plan groupwork sessions/intervention
• Implement groupwork intervention
• Evaluation groupwork intervention processes and outcomes
• Attend to the needs of the groups and individuals
• Programme Development and Implementation
• To systematically design sound social work intervention programmes with clear programme logic model/ theory of change
• Deliver programme and conduct outcome-based monitoring to ensure the successful accomplishment of its quantitative and qualitative objectives
• Consider systems dynamics and impact when designing and delivering programme
• Mobilise resources and engage in collaborative work
• Manage programme budget and ensure cost effectiveness
• Ensure proper documentation and report-writing
• System Linkage, Analysis and Engagement
• Interpret relevant policies / schemes that impact on school and client groups
• Use knowledge of systems and availability of resources to represent clients’ needs so as to formulate assessment
• Empower clients to access needed resources
• Facilitate and initiate collaborative activities with stakeholders
• Conduct systems level intervention
• Evaluation & Research
• Identify current trends
• Gather relevant information for evaluation
• Support in evaluation/research activities
• Documentation and Report Writing
• Ensure proper filing and documentation
• Ensure that proposals and written reports are clear and concise
• Document and maintain case/programme files and prepare reports according to required documentation standards
• Administrative and other duties
• Perform administrative duties
• Other duties/projects as assigned

Location: Islandwide

Only Singaporeans.

We regret to inform that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.