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Western Cape Department of Education – Social Worker

Website Western Cape Government

Social Worker

Western Cape Department of Education – Mitchells Plain, Cape Town, Western Cape

Full-Time | Government

Closing date  3rd June 2022

PURPOSE

  • To render a school social work service to Public Ordinary and Public Special Schools within the Education District.

REQUIREMENTS

  • 4-year Diploma or Degree in Social Work or equivalent qualification.
  • Registration with the South African Council for Social Service Professions (SACSSP) as Social Worker and proof of payment of registration for 2018-2019.
  • Valid Code B Driver’s License.
  • 5 years’ experience in Social Work after registration as a Social Worker with the SACSSP. Recommendations:
  • Experience in the field of child and youth care

SKILLS & COMPETENCIES

  • Inclusive Education Policies, guidelines and practices.
  • Analytic, diagnostic, assessment tools, evaluation methods and processes (Social Worker).
  • Social Work legislation related to children.
  • Social work theory and interventions.
  • Information and Knowledge Management.
  • Protocol and professional ethics.
  • Organising and planning.
  • Project Planning.
  • Psycho social intervention.
  • Communication and language (2 Official languages).
  • Interpersonal.
  • Report-writing.
  • Computer literacy.
  • Presentation and facilitation.
  • Problem Solving and analysis.
  • Client orientation and customer focus.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Implement social work capacity building programmes for the early identification of and interventions relating to social, emotional and behavioural barriers to learning:

  • Train teachers, parents, and support staff in the early identification of social, emotional and behavioural barriers.
  • Train teachers, parents, and support staff to manage identified learners who experience social, emotional and behavioural barriers (e.g. Individual Support Plan (ISP)/Group Support Plan (GSP).
  • Develop and implement preventative programmes for learners, parents and School Governing Body’s (SGBs) that address and/or prevent social, emotional and behavioural barriers to learning. Implementation of Inclusive Education Policies including the Screening Identification and Assessment Support (SIAS) Policy.
  • Provide direct social work services when necessary.

Participate in inter- and intra-sectoral networks and collaborations:

  • Promote inclusive schools as centres of Care and Support for Teaching and Learning (CSTL) and use this framework to co-ordinate the support from other sectors.
  • Collaborate on social work matters with the multi-disciplinary teams.

Provide specialised social work support to strengthen District- and School-based support teams (DBSTs/SBSTs):

  • Train, sustain and promote SBSTs in collaboration with the DBST in all Schools in understanding social context, legislation related to children and create an effective school-community partnership.
  • Collaborate as multi-disciplinary teams with ISLES DBST to support learners who experience barriers to learning.
  • Provide social work input for the district with regard to policy development and reviews.
  • Conduct discipline specific research.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Enquiries

  • Ms I Senosi: 021 370 2000

Salary

  • Grade 1: R261 456 – R303 093per annum;
  • Grade 2: R321 546 – R369 258 per annum;
  • Grade 3: R389 991 – R452 106 per annum;
  • Grade 4: R479 640 – R589 896 per annum.
  • Salary depending on years of experience after registration with the professional body.