Job Title: Social Worker/Counsellor

Bradfield Consulting is a professional service firm created to provide human resource solutions for organizations of any size. Our goal is to help our esteemed clients eliminate issues bordering on having incompatible or inexpert employees.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Social Worker/Counsellor

Location: Lagos

Job Description

• Provide quality assessment, case management, counselling, referral and follow up services always to clients.
• Provide initial crisis intervention counselling to clients as requested and needed.
• Provide support to the client during medical examinations and other procedures as requested.
• Work with the client to develop a plan for her next steps that is in line with her own choices, available options, and existing situation,
• Provide basic support and guidance to family members to help them provide on-going support to the clients at home and during the recovery process, per the situation.
• Provide support where feasible to clients requesting support for legal follow up.
• Conduct follow up with relevant service providers to which referrals were made.
• Help to monitor quality of service provision through regular feedback from clients and their families on services provided through feedback session, surveys, and other activities.
• Ensure all documentation on gender-based violence clients and services provided are updated, accurate, organized, and well-maintained. This includes client files, intake assessment forms, service delivery and referral documentation, and other forms and documents as required by the program.
• Ensure that all client files are well maintained in an appropriate storage facility that is, well protected and locked with restricted access always.Help ensure that absolute confidentiality is maintained always and, in all processes, per the survivors’ wishes.
• Enter client data into the Data Management System and assist with data collation and reports as required and requested. Provide inputs into other centre activity reports as requested/required.
• Assist the Centre Manager with other financial, logistical, and administrative tasks as requested and required at the centre
• Help the centre manager to ensure that the centre and its clients are reasonably safe and secure from external harm as feasible, and report incidents/seek assistance where needed.

Job Specification

• Candidates must possess at least 3 years’ experience in the direct provision of counselling or psychosocial support services to clients of gender-based violence, or alternatively adults & children in similar circumstances.
• Preferably female
• Demonstrated knowledge of and ability to apply the principles of providing quality service delivery for clients of gender-based violence in various settings and circumstances.
• Excellent listening and observation skills; ability to create a space of trust, support, respect, and confidentiality with clients of all ages and backgrounds.
• Strong communication skills and ability to engage with different groups and stakeholders in strengthening referral pathways and coordination and raising awareness about gender-based violence.
• Proficiency in Microsoft packages i.e. Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook & PowerPoint

Application Closing Date
13th December, 2018.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: bradfieldforms@gmail.com using the job title as the subject of the mail.

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