The Cape Town Refugee Centre (CTRC) is a South African nonprofit, non-government organisation that works with vulnerable refugees and asylum seekers. We strive to improve the quality of life of refugees and asylum seekers by meeting their basic needs on a short-term basis, and enabling them to become self-reliant and self-sufficient through various empowerment opportunities.
Cape Town Refugee Centre seeks to appoint a Social Auxiliary Worker, based in Port Elizabeth.
The Social Auxiliary worker will provide assistance and support to the social worker with the rendering of a social work service with regard to the care, support, protection and development of vulnerable individuals, groups, families and communities through the relevant programmes in the Eastern Cape.
Responsibilities:
- Assist the social worker to attend to any other matters that could result in, or stem from, social instability of any form
- Collect and provide information for the identification of appropriate interventions required to address the identified conditions
- Assist with the development and planning of programs to render the recommended interventions efficiently, effectively and economically
- Implementation of the recommended interventions by providing continuous support, basic counselling and guidance to the affected individuals, groups, families and communities
- Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the recommended interventions, report on progress and assist in identifying further/amended interventions to address the identified conditions
- Ability to provide practical support inter alia material support, emotional support and practical arrangements to beneficiaries
- Collect and provide information for the performance of statutory functions by the social worker
- Ability to conduct research by completing questionnaires, processing research data and implementing research findings
- Conduct promotion, prevention, protection, and rehabilitation, outreach, and empowerment initiatives in the social work field
- Facilitate social cohesion and community peace building workshops for school leaners, youth out of school, community leadership and government officials
- Attend meetings, workshops, symposia, conferences and any other relevant developmental activities to take cognisance of the latest developments in the relevant field
- Perform administrative support functions in support of the social worker as required of the job
- Schedule and adequately document external and internal referral appointments, if necessary, for clients
- Participate and assist with the annual review and revision process of Standard Operating Procedures for the Psychosocial Programme
- Responsible for compiling statistics for areas assigned to this position, related to psychosocial on a monthly basis for director
- Maintain an accurate and professional filing system for operations for the psycho-social department
- Provide written reports as required on the completion of activities
- Attendance to relevant in-house, community and donor meetings
- Contribute to the development and delivery to the development of work plans, annual plans, strategic plan and organisational assessments
- Contribute to reviews of the organisation’s policies and procedures relating to services to clients
Requirements:
- Auxiliary Social Worker diploma
- Registration with the SACSSP
- Fluency in written and spoken English
- Third Language in one of the refugee producing countries in Africa an advantage
- Time management capacity, organisational skills as well as written and oral communication skills
- Valid driver’s license advantageous
- Computer Literacy
- Experience facilitating and conducting group training
- Experience working with refugees or in the area of human rights is desirable
- Knowledge of sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS and different form of abuse is essential
- Counselling and presentation skills;
- Background of being a parent or a direct caregiver to a child;
- Ability to take initiative, work independently and has great attention to detail
- Ability to work independently as well as a team player
- Report writing skills
- Strong leadership skills
- Ability to interact comfortably and effectively with people from different background.
To apply, submit detailed CV with cover letter and three contactable references to [email protected]
More Information
- Job City Port Elizabeth
