Social Auxiliary Worker: Social Work Services (laingsburg)
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Minimum Requirements
- Grade 1: Grade 10 plus completion of the learnership to allow registration with the South African Council for Social Service Professions (SACSSP) as Social Auxiliary Worker
- Registration with the SACSSP as Social Auxiliary Worker; A valid code B-driving licence.
- Knowledge and basic understanding of the following: Human behaviour, relationship system and social issues
- South African social welfare context: the policy and practice of developmental social welfare services
- South African judicial system and the legislation governing and impacting of social auxiliary work
- Basic knowledge of financial matters related to social auxiliary work
- Uses appropriate resources in service delivery to client systems
- Implement appropriate social auxiliary work methods and techniques to address the social needs of client systems
- Information and Knowledge Management
- Keep precise records and compile accurate reports on social needs and social auxiliary work activities and file them appropriately
- Protocol and professional ethics.
Responsibilities
- Provide assistance and support to social workers 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 departmental programs
- Assist social workers to attend to any other matters that could result in, or stem from, social instability in any form
- Continuous professional development
- Perform administrative support functions in support of social workers as required of the job.
