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Hope and Homes for Children
Senior Social Worker, South Africa
FULL TIME
September 2, 2024
About the role:
As our Senior Social Worker, you will train, support and mentor our government and NGO partner social work professionals and drive forward strong case management practice and process flows to successfully, positively and safely transition all children out of confinement in institutions. This role requires absolute commitment to family care and the ability to oversee, plan for and promote good practice in the developed OCOF HHCSA family preservation and reunification programming. The role further requires willingness to actively participate in the successful resolution of complex cases with the objective of family care and best interest of the child paramount.
About you:
To be our Senior Social Worker you will need a good knowledge of monitoring & evaluation processes, including strong commitment to evidence-based decision-making. You will have excellent people skills and have the ability to motivate and inspire fellow professionals to implement care reform programming.
About Hope and Homes for Children:
We believe children belong in families, never orphanages. Because orphanages harm children. The majority of those who experience life inside an institution suffer violence, abuse and neglect. Denied the chance to grow up in a family, they’re more likely to become homeless later in life, to have run-ins with the law, and to experience mental and physical health issues.
The shocking truth is that these are almost always children who have, or could have, a family to look after them. To love them. But every day, a broken system puts pressure on parents to give up their children. They'll be safe from war, can escape poverty, will get an education. False promises. No child should have to trade their family for their future.
Today, over 5.4 million children are trapped within institutions. It’s not right and it must stop. Children deserve so much better. Always.
Since 1994, Hope and Homes for Children has been working to stop the institutionalisation of children. We’re 250 people, in ten countries, inspiring organisations, including the UN, EU and governments around the world, to close the doors of orphanages forever. Instead, we fight for every child to feel the love and belonging of a safe family home.
Further details
Location: OCOF HHCSA Head office, institutions, provincial NGO partners with flexible home-working for part of the week considered.
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 40 hours
Salary: ZAR 375,000 - 379,000 gross per annum.
Closing Date: The final cut off for applications is 29th September 2024. However, we may close the vacancy early if we receive strong applications. So, don’t delay, please get in touch if you have the right skills, experience, and passion for our cause.
To apply, please upload your CV and a brief covering letter indicating why you are interested in joining us and (reflecting on the role profile) why you believe your skills and experience make you suitable for the role.
HHC actively encourages equality and diversity, and we look to recruit across age, gender, ethnicity and background as we believe diversity brings us closer to our mission of eliminating orphanages.
As our Senior Social Worker, you will train, support and mentor our government and NGO partner social work professionals and drive forward strong case management practice and process flows to successfully, positively and safely transition all children out of confinement in institutions. This role requires absolute commitment to family care and the ability to oversee, plan for and promote good practice in the developed OCOF HHCSA family preservation and reunification programming. The role further requires willingness to actively participate in the successful resolution of complex cases with the objective of family care and best interest of the child paramount.
About you:
To be our Senior Social Worker you will need a good knowledge of monitoring & evaluation processes, including strong commitment to evidence-based decision-making. You will have excellent people skills and have the ability to motivate and inspire fellow professionals to implement care reform programming.
About Hope and Homes for Children:
We believe children belong in families, never orphanages. Because orphanages harm children. The majority of those who experience life inside an institution suffer violence, abuse and neglect. Denied the chance to grow up in a family, they’re more likely to become homeless later in life, to have run-ins with the law, and to experience mental and physical health issues.
The shocking truth is that these are almost always children who have, or could have, a family to look after them. To love them. But every day, a broken system puts pressure on parents to give up their children. They'll be safe from war, can escape poverty, will get an education. False promises. No child should have to trade their family for their future.
Today, over 5.4 million children are trapped within institutions. It’s not right and it must stop. Children deserve so much better. Always.
Since 1994, Hope and Homes for Children has been working to stop the institutionalisation of children. We’re 250 people, in ten countries, inspiring organisations, including the UN, EU and governments around the world, to close the doors of orphanages forever. Instead, we fight for every child to feel the love and belonging of a safe family home.
Further details
Location: OCOF HHCSA Head office, institutions, provincial NGO partners with flexible home-working for part of the week considered.
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 40 hours
Salary: ZAR 375,000 - 379,000 gross per annum.
Closing Date: The final cut off for applications is 29th September 2024. However, we may close the vacancy early if we receive strong applications. So, don’t delay, please get in touch if you have the right skills, experience, and passion for our cause.
To apply, please upload your CV and a brief covering letter indicating why you are interested in joining us and (reflecting on the role profile) why you believe your skills and experience make you suitable for the role.
HHC actively encourages equality and diversity, and we look to recruit across age, gender, ethnicity and background as we believe diversity brings us closer to our mission of eliminating orphanages.
For more information about Hope and Homes for Children and a detailed Job Pack, please visit our website at www.hopeandhomes.org.
HHC in South Africa is: One Child One Family HHCSA NPC registration number: 2017/489514/08.
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