Social Worker (Strengths Based Role)

Pccs; Gauteng; On-site; ZAR 300 000 - 450 000; Full time

Job summary

A community health organization in South Africa is seeking qualified Social Workers to facilitate connections for clients to improve their quality of life. You will work with individuals to support their self-advocacy and access to health and social resources. If you are passionate about community support and social change, this role provides the opportunity for impactful work with a supportive team, attractive remuneration, and growth potential.

Benefits

Attractive remuneration inclusive of superannuation

Tax-Free Salary Packaging available up to $15

Meal & entertainment allowance of up to $2

Generous leave provisions including 17.5% annual leave loading

Access to Employee Assistance Program

Opportunities for growth and development

Qualifications

• Ability to coordinate supports and opportunities for clients.
• Experience in advocating for client self-management.
• Possession of a current Police Check and Driver's License.

Responsibilities

• Link clients to necessary community resources and supports.
• Contribute to improved health literacy and access to services.
• Assist clients in self-advocacy and address social factors impacting health.

Skills

Strong interpersonal skills

Ability to work with diverse populations

Experience in the disability sector

Compassion and understanding

Education

Degree in Social Work

Job description

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Imagine providing a mental health service that actively battles stigma

Creating opportunities and empowering people to improve their own quality of life

Building counter-systems, and individual and structural responses with a longer view to change health care and social policy

If your values align with ours then we've got an opportunity, in Eurobodalla NSW, you may be interested in!

How You Operate

You're an activist for kindness.

You ensure your practice is firmly grounded in humanistic roots.

You like people for who they are, and just see people as people, noticing the commonality of human experience much more than the subtle beautiful differences between people.

You approach everyone and everything with integrity.

You're creative and socially engaged.

You want to be out in community, creating opportunities for people to support each other, changing the system by focusing on opportunities created by the fluidity and malleability of structures and systems, and using those to create a better tomorrow.

You don't want to change or save people.

You act with compassion, creating the space for others to write their own journeys in their own way.

You support others to make their own choices, and to be accountable for those choices, whether good or bad.

You believe in people.

You see strength and capability in people.

The only labels you're interested in are positive, not limiting.

You circumvent challenges with honesty, dignity and respect.

You speak softly, and change opinions by cutting through to the why, and not just focusing on the what.

You see barriers as challenges and constraints, using them to guide your creativity while fostering chances for others to mindfully author their own stories, mentoring and connecting, without the need to control the outcome.

You value personal growth.

You're more resilient every day, because you know the story of your life is one you want to tell and you actively author it.

Instead of taking criticism personally, you treasure it as a chance to reflect and grow.

You're looking for an environment that is purposefully designed to offer those affordances to you.

Your Future

There's no case management here.

Just working with people, creating opportunities.

People manage their own destinies, we just provide the chance to consider, reflect, identify options, and make meaningful choices.

We believe in the transformative power of the people we work with.

For us, community, cooperation, engagement and consciousness are fundamental elements of strengthening the social contract for maximum social benefit.

We specialise in social prescribing, linking people with physical and mental health care needs to resources, with non-clinical sources of social support within their community.

For us health is about quality of life, including creating opportunities to address any social determinants of health.

We are looking for qualified Social Workers, and allied health professionals who would love to connect people into community, help people find services they need, and improve the ability of community members to access services and supports.

In this role you will help enable clients' self-advocacy and self-management, contribute to improved health literacy and equitable access to services, and enhance a supportive environment allowing clients, their family, friends and carers and their network of health service providers to address the social factors that contribute to rising chronic illness, mental health issues, isolation and loneliness.

If you are passionate about providing high quality, innovative services, coordinating supports and linking people to mainstream services, local groups, opportunities for social connection, and community resources, please contact us to learn more.

What's on offer

Attractive remuneration inclusive of superannuation

Tax-Free Salary Packaging available up to $15,

Meal & entertainment allowance of up to $2,

Generous leave provisions including 17.5% annual leave loading

Strong team support

Access to Employee Assistance Program

Opportunities for growth and development.

What to bring

A keen ability to work with a person from their perspective to identify their needs and wants, and to link and coordinate supports and opportunities to improve their quality of life

Your passion and positivity

Experience in working within disability sector

Degree in SW

WWCC and Police Check

Driver's License and Comprehensive Car Insurance Policy

Application Questions

• Do you have a current Police Check (National Police Certificate) for employment?
• Which of the following statements best describes your right to work in Australia?
• How many years' experience do you have as a social worker?
• Are you currently registered with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)?
• Do you have membership with any of the following psychology, social work, or counselling boards?
• What's your expected annual base salary?
• What's your highest level of education?
• How much notice are you required to give your current employer?