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Job vacancy for Female Social Worker
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Female Social Worker

Employer: SOS Children's Villages Lebanon

Contract: Full time position

Location: Jisr El Bacha/ Sin El Fil

 

JOB DESCRIPTION

Mission of the position:

Under the leadership of the Family Strengthening Programme Coordinator, the social worker supports programme development in the field of family strengthening in line with the “Vision, Mission, Values”, the brand and approved strategies, policies (including Child safeguarding*), guidelines of the organisation and national legislation. Social worker is responsible to support children who are at risk of losing the care of their biological family which includes direct work with the children, caregivers and communities, based on the professional social work practice, ethic, values to achieve the sustainable development of the families and integration in the community. He/she is also responsible to ensure the timely completion of the case management procedures at all stages based on the individual approach and on the active participation of children, parents/caregivers. 

 

*Child safeguarding includes all activities that the organisation undertakes to ensure that...

·         its co-workers, operations, and programmes do no harm to children and do not expose them to the risk of harm and abuse;

·         appropriate responses and effective management of child safeguarding concerns are in place;

·         any concerns the organisation has about children’s safety in its own programmes and within the communities they work in are reported to the appropriate authorities.

 

Key performance areas and main responsibilities:

 

Programme Development

·         Supports FS Programme Coordinator in the development of services in the frame of family strengthening.

·         Supports identification of cases of children who are at risk of losing care from their families of origin through different resources (referral, outreach, self-referral etc.).

·         Conducts comprehensive assessment of children and families in strong cooperation with the multidisciplinary team using different resources and social work techniques/methods to identify family needs and strengths and define the required services.

·         Prepares family development plans, with the strong participation of caregivers, children and the multidisciplinary team.

·         Arranges, provides and coordinates  the delivery of services to children and families in strong partnership with other service providers and in line with the family development plan.

·         Keeps regular contacts with child and family during the implementation of family development plan through phone calls, home visits and meetings in programme premises.

·         Documents appropriately all activities conducted during the case management stages in the child/family case file by applying methods and tools for gathering information, as well as forms/templates, based on the requirements of national legislation and/or regional guidelines. 

·         Participates in annual planning process of FS programme.

 

 Monitoring and Evaluation

·         Reassesses periodically the child/family needs and progress in meeting the objectives defined in Family Development Plan and make decisions on the case closure, in cooperation with family members and the multidisciplinary team.

·         Enters data regularly in FS Database module, ensures quality of data and uses regularly the reports and data stored in the database to track individual progress of children and families. Provides information for new requirements (new reports, new data fields or features) to FS Programme Coordinator.

·         Upon the request of FSP Coordinator and in accordance with the national legislation, informs regularly the child protection authorities on the case progress.

·         Supports FSP coordinator in the self-evaluation and/or external evaluation processes of FS programme.

·         Collects regularly information about different indicators as defined in the M&E plan of the programme unit and reports to FS Programme Coordinator.

 

Partnership building and advocacy

·         Keeps regular contacts with service providers to ensure that services are provided according to objectives and actions agreed in Family Development Plan.

·         Advocates for the individual child and his/her family to have access to social entitlements or obtain needed services.

·         Contributes in community development undertaken by the Family Strengthening Programme, i.e. organise/participate in awareness raising activities, community mobilisation events and capacity building of the community partners.

 

Knowledge Management

·         Supports Family Strengthening Programme Coordinator in documenting good practises, human touch stories.

·         Keeps regular track of latest developments in social work area as well as changes in national legislation, policies and practises related to children in the target group.

 

Experience required: 3 to 5 years

 

Education degree: Bachelor Degree       Field of education: Social Work

 

LANGUAGES

 

Arabic: Very Good English: Very Good French: Very Good

Submission guidelines: Interested applicants must send their CV with a cover letter to: jobs@sos.org.lb. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Thank you for your interest.

 

Cover letter required? Yes

 

CONTACT INFORMATION

Mr.Charbel Aoun

HR

Email: jobs@sos.org.lb

Fax: 961 1 499787


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