Lead Global Initiative is currently recruiting suitably qualified candidates to fill the position below:
Job Title: Social Work Assistant
Location: Lagos
Job Description
- As a social services assistant, you provide vital support to social workers and other mental health professionals in offering services to the community that they desperately need.
- You may deal with rehabilitation, psychology and social work needs as you provide support for families and client services to the community.
- Your goal is to aid social workers in offering the benefits or community services that are most applicable and helpful to them.
- As a social services assistant, you have the opportunity to change lives by providing aid many don’t even realize is available to them.
- Your goal is to identify needs and determine the best ways to overcome them with the services available to the citizens of the community.
Responsibilities
- Keep accurate, updated, organized records after every client visit to ensure that there are no undocumented breaks between treatments or visits.
- Answer questions about benefits that are available to individuals, or refer them to the correct organization to get help.
- Discuss benefits like child care, food stamps, housekeeping, sanitation and money management to determine needs versus wants.
- Review and submit reports regarding any problems with a customer or a supervisor.
- Get together weekly with supervisor to brainstorm and come up with ways to improve programs for individual families within the community, and to determine better ways to serve citizens.
- Interview family members or individuals to obtain a complete family history to more closely determine which services are appropriate and needed.
- Oversee group activities on a daily basis and run meetings when a social worker can’t be present.
- Meet with youth groups and at-risk groups in the area to teach them about consequences associated with drugs, violence and delinquency to encourage them to make good choices.
Skills & Qualifications
Required:
- Applicants must be between the ages of 18-24 years old
- High school diploma
- Knowledge about any of the following areas: marriage, speech, sociology, personal and family health, human biology or casework methods
- Flexible hours and ability to weekends.
Preferred:
- Experience in some type of customer service role
- Associate’s degree in a related field
- Preferably a female (beautiful and presentable)
- Resident in lagos (ikeja/ogba axis).
Application Closing Date
29th November, 2019.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their details to:
[email protected] Using the "Job Title" as the subject of the mail.