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Social Worker – Dar es Salaam
Com.sol is an Italian NGO founded in 2007 based in Rome (Italy).
It operates to promote networks of solidarity between North-South citizens and communities. Com.sol is active in Tanzania since 2009, it focuses on actions in the fields of disability, education, agriculture and employability.
The interventions are planned to support vulnerable groups, especially children and people with disabilities, by promoting a Community based Rehabilitation (CBR) approach that implies activities of medical rehabilitation, economic empowerment, educational and social inclusion inside the communities to which the targeted people belong.
The interventions are developed to be replicated also in the surrounding areas, in collaboration with public and private local, Italian and international stakeholders, ensuring as much as possible sustainability.
In December 2016 Com.sol was awarded a grant from the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation for the implementation of a project entitled “ALL INCLUSIVE: A multi-sectoral initiative fostering the inclusion of people with disabilities within the Dar es Salaam community – 10922/CEFA/TZA”.
The ALL INCLUSIVE project is meant to improve the livelihoods of people with disabilities (PwDs) in Dar es Salaam through a holistic action based on a Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) approach that combines medical rehabilitation, economic empowerment, social and educational inclusion.
Rehabilitation of PWDs, especially children, is one of the main goals of the proposed project, as demonstrated by the Action’s Expected Result 1 “To increase the Tanzanian health system’s effectiveness in addressing the challenges set by disability.”. In order to achieve such result, the proposed project foresees the construction of a Community Based Rehabilitation (CBR) Centre in Kawe District and the implementation of various services/activities that will be targeting PwDs, communities, health workers and local authorities mainly of Kinondoni Municipality.
JOB PROFILE
Position: Social Worker
Country: Tanzania
Duty station: Dar es Salaam
Duration: 12 months (renewable)
Starting date: May/June 2017
Reporting to: CBR Centre’s General manager and vice-coordinator
Salary: to be defined according to qualifications and working experience
General competences:
The Social Worker will develop, coordinate and supervise the activities in the Social rehabilitation department. He/she will have to ensure their timely implementation in accordance with the CBR Centre’s daily/weekly/monthly plans and deadlines.
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
The social worker has to perform activities pertaining to the Community Based Rehabilitation centre with special emphasis on the following targeted areas:
• Participate to plan outpatients and outreach daily activities in coordination with management, staff and secretary;
• Contribute to the implementation of the Centre’s outpatients and outreach programs’ activities, at the CBR Centre and/or in the territory;
• Developing and reviewing Individual rehabilitation plan (IRP) in collaboration with therapists and Community rehabilitation workers, according to the evaluations and objectives established by the team;
• Updating the registers (home visit files, school inclusion files, social inclusion files, children presence files, psychological counseling files)
• Provide preventive health services and psycho-social support to disabled children and their families, at the CBR Centre and/or during the home visiting service in the territory;
• Processes of individual or group therapeutic plans (short and long term) and address the social needs of the patients;
• Develop social departments’ programs, in collaboration with the psychologist, concerning on psychical, professional, social and cultural needs oriented to the integration of the patient into communities and in the territory;
• Develop social-economic investigations and analysis of the beneficiaries and their families at the Centre and/or in the territory;
• Analyse and carry decision making on special cases;
• Follow School inclusion activities that encompasses:
o Liaise with school authorities
o Monitoring and evaluating the disabled children enrolled in schools
o Training teachers and school authorities as far as disabilities is concerned
• Contribute in the organization and implementation of social inclusion activities as disseminating information about disability to the communities and raising awareness activities;
• Constant educating and advising patients and their caregivers about how to prevent and/or improve conditions;
• Liaising with other healthcare personnel to supply and receive relevant information about the background and progress of the patients, as well as referring patients who require other specific medical attention;
• Monitoring of persons referred to others health structures;
• Training activities for staff, parents, caregivers and other stakeholders involved in the program;
• Reports’ writing and documentation on daily/weekly/monthly basis.
OTHERS TASKS:
• Taking care of the centre’s spaces, materials, tools available for the daily activities;
• Collaborate with all the partners involved in the CBR centre’s staff, local authorities, other partners and stakeholders …;
• Participate, when requested, to project’s coordination meetings organized by the leading agency and partners;
• Any other activities assigned from the management, in order to increase efficiency and effectiveness of the CBR centre.
Skills and abilities required
• Diploma in Social work or Community development
• At least one year work experience in a similar sector
•Ability to work in dynamic, multicultural environment by considering cultural and religious awareness and tolerance
• Flexibility as situation demand
• Self-discipline and punctuality at the working place
• Good interpersonal skills and teamwork
• Hygiene at the workplace
• Fluency in written and spoken English
• Good computer skills
• Good capacity to produce reports
Added values
• Experience in a Community based Rehabilitation Centre
• People coming from Residence area of Kawe District, Kinondoni Municipality
Application Instructions
To apply CV, cover letter, certificates to be send to Kawe Road, P.O BOX 60498, Dar es Salaam or by email to tanzania@solidalinelmondo.org
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