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Youth Corps Singapore
Social Work

Social Work Intern (St Hilda's Community Services Centre)

Minimum Qualifications

Current Polytechnic students and above

Social Causes

Seniors

No. of Vacancies: 1

Organisation Overview: St Hilda’s Community Services Centre(SHCSC) was registered with the Registrar of Societies and the Charities Act in 2001. We are a VWO, a social service arm of the St Hilda’s Church. SHCSC has worked in the Tanjong Rhu/Old Airport community for 24 years, serving 20 blocks of HDB flats. Our services include; Active Ageing, Senior Day Care, Day Rehab , PWID, Home Personal Care and Medical Services Transport with Social, Nursing and Care teams to care and support the community.

Brief Description:

  1. To assist in sourcing for financial assistance scheme / subsidy / fund for clients with financial difficulty

  2. Providing support services to families and clients with duties may include giving care to the elderly with needs in a variety of fields like Day care, Community Rehab, Counselling, and Social work

  3. To be able to assist in providing interventions and programs, performing community development work and uplifting the professional practice in social work

Roles and Responsibilities:

  1. Following up some casework and home visits where necessary

  2. Co-ordinate collaboration between different programs/services with Daycare: Home Care, Medical Escort Transport, Community Nursing, Rehabilitation, Active Ageing Ctr. etc.; to ensure smooth transition of patient care

  3. Ensure proper record management for audit purposes

  4. Participate and assist in other Community events and activities where relevant

  5. In Means Testing follow up of docs if necessary for renewal

  6. In preparation of documents of clients’ admission

  7. In preparing referral for clients who need multiple health & social care and support services

  8. Monitor the trends of clients types, in terms of clients’ subsidy level, service(s) received etc. To identify service gap if any

  9. Sourcing for financial assistance scheme / subsidy / fund for clients with financial difficulty

  10. Organizing multidisciplinary case / patient discussion in regular basis

  11. Proper documentation & record of case management of clients by SW

  12. Stakeholder engagement e.g. media, grassroots etc

  13. Involving in other projects / social activities organized by centre e.g. community outreach

  14. Any other duties as may be assigned

Learning Objectives and Outcomes:

  1. To gain knowledge and experience in conducting and managing casework and counselling with elderly

  2. To learn how to co-ordinate and collaborate with different program services Unit Heads

  3. To participate in Community events and activities

  4. To be exposed to conducting Means Test and/or Financial Assistance, etc

Duration of Internship: 6 months

Daily Working Hours: Mon-Fri, 9.00am - 6.00pm

Will this internship require weekend work?: Flexible - weekend work may be required depending on operational needs

Requirements (if any):

No of Vacancies: 1

Contact Person Name: Maureen Sit

Contact Person Email: maureen@sthildascsc.org.sg

Please read the following to apply for the internship:

1.      Click here for the application form.

2.      Select the number of internship roles you wish to apply for at "Number of Internship Role(s) to Apply For".

3.      Copy and paste Social Work Intern (St Hilda's Community Services Centre) into the "Internship Role" field.

For further enquiries on the internship role, you may email the contact person as stated in the description.

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