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The Homestead (Projects for Street Children), based in Cape Town, works to help Street Children reconstruct their shattered lives, and to provide prevention and early intervention services to children and families in disadvantaged communities. The Homestead helps over 150 street children a year, has 90 boys in residential care, and helps over 250 chronically neglected and abused community children each week.

The Homestead seeks to appoint a Social Worker, to be based in Cape Town.

Responsibilities:

  • Work directly with children and their families in informal settlements
  • Provide social work, school after-care, school attendance, crises and family intervention support services to the children attending our Khayelitsha Drop-in centres
  • Help the PEI manager service our drop-in centres in Valhalla Park and Manenberg

Requirements:

  • Officially recognised Social Worker qualification
  • Current registration with the SA Council for Social Service Professions
  • Valid driver’s licence (learners licence do not qualify)
  • Proof of local, greater Cape Town, community knowledge and work experience
  • Fluency (written and spoken) in English, as well as IsiXhosa
  • Computer literacy Microsoft (Word, Excel, email, social media and the web)
  • Relevant work experience
  • Willingness to work with children from the most challenging of communities in Khayelitsha

To apply, submit CV detailing your chronological work experience along with two recent and contactable references, one of whom must be a previous employer, a motivation letter with and proof of SACSSP registration and drivers licence to [email protected]

Incomplete applications and applicants who do not meet the above minimum requirements, and applicants without a driver’s licence. will not be considered or responded to.

Applicants outside of the greater Cape Town area must note, in their application, their willingness to come to an interview and to relocate at their own expense.

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The Homestead Projects for Street Children is a legally registered Non-Profit Organization (NPO 003-217) and a Public Benefit Organisation (PBO 18/11/13/1038), it was established in 1982 and has developed into a comprehensive response to the plight of children living, working and begging on the streets of Cape Town.  The Homestead provides residential care to 90 street children each night, helps over 160 street children a year, and works weekly with 200 chronically neglected, abused and street-vulnerable children in street children communities of origin. The Homestead mandate is “To get and keep children off the street and to help Street Children reconstruct their shattered lives”.

Homestead projects include: the Homestead Intake Centre in Khayelitsha, a therapeutic residential care facility stabilising 65 street children at a time; the Homestead “Launch Pad” residential centre in Woodstock that helps 25 young men prepare for a successful future away from street life;  and the Homestead   Early Intervention projects in Manenberg, Valhalla Park and Khayelitsha that reduce the vulnerability and plight of chronically neglected and abused boys and girls to street life.

To date we have reduced the number of children living on the streets of Cape Town, down by 90% since 2000, and that we continue to turn the constant flood of children coming onto the street away from street life.

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0 USD Cape Town CF 3201 Abc road Full Time , 40 hours per week The Homestead Projects for Street Children

The Homestead (Projects for Street Children), based in Cape Town, works to help Street Children reconstruct their shattered lives, and to provide prevention and early intervention services to children and families in disadvantaged communities. The Homestead helps over 150 street children a year, has 90 boys in residential care, and helps over 250 chronically neglected and abused community children each week.

The Homestead seeks to appoint a Social Worker, to be based in Cape Town.

Responsibilities:

  • Work directly with children and their families in informal settlements
  • Provide social work, school after-care, school attendance, crises and family intervention support services to the children attending our Khayelitsha Drop-in centres
  • Help the PEI manager service our drop-in centres in Valhalla Park and Manenberg

Requirements:

  • Officially recognised Social Worker qualification
  • Current registration with the SA Council for Social Service Professions
  • Valid driver’s licence (learners licence do not qualify)
  • Proof of local, greater Cape Town, community knowledge and work experience
  • Fluency (written and spoken) in English, as well as IsiXhosa
  • Computer literacy Microsoft (Word, Excel, email, social media and the web)
  • Relevant work experience
  • Willingness to work with children from the most challenging of communities in Khayelitsha

To apply, submit CV detailing your chronological work experience along with two recent and contactable references, one of whom must be a previous employer, a motivation letter with and proof of SACSSP registration and drivers licence to [email protected]

Incomplete applications and applicants who do not meet the above minimum requirements, and applicants without a driver’s licence. will not be considered or responded to.

Applicants outside of the greater Cape Town area must note, in their application, their willingness to come to an interview and to relocate at their own expense.

2018-11-01

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