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NORTHERN CAPE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
NORTHERN CAPE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
Private Bag X 1001, De Aar, 7000. Orion Hostel, Alpha Road, De Aar.
Tel (053) 632 7600, Fax (053) 631 1866
Private Bag X 11, Springbok, 8240. Ground Floor, Corner Philip & Bree Street, Springbok.
Tel (053) 874 9100, Fax (053) 871 3661
POST NAME: Social Work Policy Developer Grade 1
(Early Childhood Development)
SERVICE POINT: Provincial Office
REFERENCE: SWPD/KIM/PROV/37/20
SALARY RANGE PERANNUM: R363 801.00 — R581 178.00
(Salary will be in accordance with OSD Determination) Three (3) Year Contract
*"Applications must include Certificates of Service for recognition of previous work experience**
REQUIREMENTSAND COMPETENCIES
• Grade 12 certificate plus formal tertiary qualification in Social Work (e.g. Bachelor of Social Work) that allows professional registration with the South African Council for Social Work Professions (SACSSP);
• A minimum of eight years appropriate experience in social worker after registration as Social Worker with the SACSSP.
• Incumbent must be willing to travel extensively within the Province and Nationally.
• Innovation: Must be able to generate ideas and innovative approaches in order to contribute solutions to problems.
• Diversity management: Must be able to work effectively and co- operatively with persons of diverse backgrounds.
• Communication: Must be able to write formal documentations (i.e, reports) and communicate verbally through the selection of relevant delivery mechanisms.
• Problem solving and decision making: Must be able to identify, define problems, analyze situations, apply critical thinking and develop solutions.
• Team work and collaboration: Must be able manage and build cohesive work teams, work effectively within teams including social work teams, multi-disciplinary teams and multi- sectoral teams.
• Applied strategic thinking: Must be able to operational ize and implement the strategic imperatives and policies.
• Financial Management: Must be able to plan the work- unit's budget required to achieve unit objectives.
• Developing others: Must be able to develop, coach and foster long term learning of others.
• Conflict management: Must be able to resolve disagreements and conflicts in a constructive manner.
• Networking and building bonds: Must be able to build and maintain a network of professional relations.
• Planning and organizing: Must be able to plan and organize the work of the work unit and groups.
• Project management: Must be able to plan and manage projects in order to deliver on time, within cost and at the required quality level.
• Understanding social work values and principles: Must demonstrate social work values and the principles of human rights and social justice.
MAJOR JOB FUNCTIONS
• Registration of ECD Centres:
• To be on the team with Project Managers and the Environmental Health Practitioners to determine the needs in terms of the norms and standards to be fixed by the grant. Guide processes in order to improve registration status to full registration
• Monitor the Norms and standards prior finalisation of the Projects
• Ensure that all Service Level agreements with the ECD's are signed
• Compile the package for the conditional grant file including all documents as requested by the guidelines and framework regarding registration
• Ensure the implementation of the framework and guidelines in the implementation phase with ECD management committees and infrastructure
• Train and inform Social Workers on the guidelines and norms and standards for registrations
• Receive the registration files and ensure registration by the end of each financial year
• Ensure that the beneficiaries have the Educational material and training to implement programmes for expansion through non-centre based services Monitoring of subsidy for access of new children
• Ensure that the supporting documentation for the children under question is compiled and updated according the Means test applied
• Ensure the signing of SLA's for subsidy payment with the management committees of ECD centres of children benefitting from the grant
• Ensure the master lists are updated and submitted during April of each year
• Ensure that districts identify children during October of each year for the funding during the next year
• Ensure the payments are made in line with the signed SKA's
• Ensure new ECD centres submit business plans in June of each year for funding in the next financial year
• Map and plan services for expansion to reach 70% of all poor children by 2030 in the Northern Cape verify and update the gap analysis for proper planning
• Finalise Head counts and funding budget for children accessing services
REPORTING
• Ensure Non-fin data reporting is done monthly
• Ensure quarterly reporting is done in collaboration with the infrastructure and Finance units of the Department
• Ensure the End of Year report is done in collaboration with the infrastructure unit of
the Department
• Ensure the business plan is done at the 1 March of each year in collaboration with the infrastructure unit of the Department
• Ensure the implementation of the approved business plan
• Monitor the budget and expenditure on a monthly basis
• Ensure that claim certificates are submitted for payment as approved by National
treasury in collaboration with the Finance section
• Ensure the submission of monthly Finance and Narrative reports on the spending in
collaboration with Finance and Infrastructure
• Do the quarterly risk and Outcome 13 report.
• Attend meetings with the National office with the Infrastructure unit and report back to the unit
• Ensure regular meetings with the Internal Steering Committee for the sound management of the grant
Database:
• Ensure the compilation and maintenance of the database on the status of full and conditional registration of all ECD centers in the province is done
• Ensure that the database is updated with centres benefiting from the infrastructure grant
• Ensure the database is updated with the centres registration status after the upgrade
• Ensure the database is updated with all centres constructed
Enquiries: Ms M Lotz Tel. (053)874 9100
The post advertised is in line with PHSDSBC Resolution 1 of 2009 — Agreement on implementation of an occupational specific dispensation for Social Service Professions. It is the Department intention to promote equity through the filling of posts, according to the set Employment Equity targets. To facilitate this process successfully, an indication of race, gender and disability status is required.
Applications must be submitted on form Z83, obtainable from any Public Service department or on the internet at http://www.info.gov.za/documents/forms/employ.pdf and should be accompanied by a recently updated, comprehensive CV as well as certified copies of all qualification(s) [Metric certificate must also be attached] and ID-document and Driver's licence (where applicable]. Non-RSA Citizens/Permanent Resident Permit Holders must attach a copy of his/her Permanent Residence Permit to his/her application. Should you be in possession of a foreign qualification, it must be accompanied by an evaluation certificate from the South African Qualification Authority (SAQA). No faxed or emailed applications will be considered. Failure to submit all the requested certified documents will result in the application not being considered.
Correspondence will be limited to short listed candidates only. Suitable candidates will be subjected to a personnel suitability check (criminal record check, citizenship verification, financial/asset record check, qualification/study verification and previous employment verification). Successful candidates will also be subjected to the security clearance processes. Where applicable, candidates will be subjected to a skills/knowledge test. The Department reserves the right not to make appointment(s) to the advertised post(s).
All applications, quoting the relevant reference number, must be directed to:
Postal Service: Registry Department of Social Development Private Bag X5042 Kimberley 8300
Attention:
Hand delivery to Registry: Latlhi Mabilo Complex, Barkley Road, Homestead, Kimberley, 8301
Mr. P Abrahams
Closing date: 13 March 2020
• Problem solving and decision making: Must be able to identify, define problems, analyze situations, apply critical thinking and develop solutions.
• Team work and collaboration: Must be able manage and build cohesive work teams, work effectively within teams including social work teams, multi-disciplinary teams and multi- sectoral teams.
• Applied strategic thinking: Must be able to operational ize and implement the strategic imperatives and policies.
• Financial Management: Must be able to plan the work- unit's budget required to achieve unit objectives.
• Developing others: Must be able to develop, coach and foster long term learning of others.
• Conflict management: Must be able to resolve disagreements and conflicts in a constructive manner.
• Networking and building bonds: Must be able to build and maintain a network of professional relations.
• Planning and organizing: Must be able to plan and organize the work of the work unit and groups.
• Project management: Must be able to plan and manage projects in order to deliver on time, within cost and at the required quality level.
• Understanding social work values and principles: Must demonstrate social work values and the principles of human rights and social justice.
MAJOR JOB FUNCTIONS
• Registration of ECD Centres:
• To be on the team with Project Managers and the Environmental Health Practitioners to determine the needs in terms of the norms and standards to be fixed by the grant. Guide processes in order to improve registration status to full registration
• Monitor the Norms and standards prior finalisation of the Projects
• Ensure that all Service Level agreements with the ECD's are signed
• Compile the package for the conditional grant file including all documents as requested by the guidelines and framework regarding registration
• Ensure the implementation of the framework and guidelines in the implementation phase with ECD management committees and infrastructure
• Train and inform Social Workers on the guidelines and norms and standards for registrations
• Receive the registration files and ensure registration by the end of each financial year
• Ensure that the beneficiaries have the Educational material and training to implement programmes for expansion through non-centre based services Monitoring of subsidy for access of new children
• Ensure that the supporting documentation for the children under question is compiled and updated according the Means test applied
• Ensure the signing of SLA's for subsidy payment with the management committees of ECD centres of children benefitting from the grant
• Ensure the master lists are updated and submitted during April of each year
• Ensure that districts identify children during October of each year for the funding during the next year
• Ensure the payments are made in line with the signed SKA's
• Ensure new ECD centres submit business plans in June of each year for funding in the next financial year
• Map and plan services for expansion to reach 70% of all poor children by 2030 in the Northern Cape verify and update the gap analysis for proper planning
• Finalise Head counts and funding budget for children accessing services
REPORTING
• Ensure Non-fin data reporting is done monthly
• Ensure quarterly reporting is done in collaboration with the infrastructure and Finance units of the Department
• Ensure the End of Year report is done in collaboration with the infrastructure unit of
the Department
• Ensure the business plan is done at the 1 March of each year in collaboration with the infrastructure unit of the Department
• Ensure the implementation of the approved business plan
• Monitor the budget and expenditure on a monthly basis
• Ensure that claim certificates are submitted for payment as approved by National
treasury in collaboration with the Finance section
• Ensure the submission of monthly Finance and Narrative reports on the spending in
collaboration with Finance and Infrastructure
• Do the quarterly risk and Outcome 13 report.
• Attend meetings with the National office with the Infrastructure unit and report back to the unit
• Ensure regular meetings with the Internal Steering Committee for the sound management of the grant
Database:
• Ensure the compilation and maintenance of the database on the status of full and conditional registration of all ECD centers in the province is done
• Ensure that the database is updated with centres benefiting from the infrastructure grant
• Ensure the database is updated with the centres registration status after the upgrade
• Ensure the database is updated with all centres constructed
Enquiries: Ms M Lotz Tel. (053)874 9100
The post advertised is in line with PHSDSBC Resolution 1 of 2009 — Agreement on implementation of an occupational specific dispensation for Social Service Professions. It is the Department intention to promote equity through the filling of posts, according to the set Employment Equity targets. To facilitate this process successfully, an indication of race, gender and disability status is required.
Applications must be submitted on form Z83, obtainable from any Public Service department or on the internet at http://www.info.gov.za/documents/forms/employ.pdf and should be accompanied by a recently updated, comprehensive CV as well as certified copies of all qualification(s) [Metric certificate must also be attached] and ID-document and Driver's licence (where applicable]. Non-RSA Citizens/Permanent Resident Permit Holders must attach a copy of his/her Permanent Residence Permit to his/her application. Should you be in possession of a foreign qualification, it must be accompanied by an evaluation certificate from the South African Qualification Authority (SAQA). No faxed or emailed applications will be considered. Failure to submit all the requested certified documents will result in the application not being considered.
Correspondence will be limited to short listed candidates only. Suitable candidates will be subjected to a personnel suitability check (criminal record check, citizenship verification, financial/asset record check, qualification/study verification and previous employment verification). Successful candidates will also be subjected to the security clearance processes. Where applicable, candidates will be subjected to a skills/knowledge test. The Department reserves the right not to make appointment(s) to the advertised post(s).
All applications, quoting the relevant reference number, must be directed to:
Postal Service: Registry Department of Social Development Private Bag X5042 Kimberley 8300
Attention:
Hand delivery to Registry: Latlhi Mabilo Complex, Barkley Road, Homestead, Kimberley, 8301
Mr. P Abrahams
Closing date: 13 March 2020
POST NAME: Social Work Manager Grade 1
DISTRICT: Pixley Ka Seme & Namakwa
SERVICE POINT: De Aar Secure Care Centre X1
Springbok Secure Care Centre X 1
REFERENCE: De Aar: DAU0102188
Springbok: SP120 \ 02 \ 89
SALARY RANGE PER ANNUM: R794 889
**Applications must include Certificates of Service for recognition of previous work experience**
REQUIREMENTS AND COMPETENCIES
• Formal tertiary qualification in Social Work (e.g. Bachelor of Social Work) that allows professional registration with the SACSSP);
• A minimum of 10 years appropriate experience in social work after registration as a Social Worker registered with the SACSSP;
• Knowledge of relevant Social Work programmes
• Ability to compile complex reports
• Knowledge of legislation and white papers governing child and youth care work (Blue Print 2010), Minimum Standards and procedures, Constitution of the RSA, Children's Act 38 of 2005, Child Justice Act, Social Services Professions Act (no 110 of 1978), OUA Charter on the rights and welfare of the African Child, Criminal Procedures Act, 1977(no 51 of 1977), Probations Services Act,1991(no 116 of 1991), United Nations Convention on the rights of the child, Inter- grated Service Model, South African Schools Act 1999, Prevention and Treatment of Drug DependencyAct,1992 (no 20 of 1992)
• Knowledge of Legislation and regulation applicable to the public service which include; Public Finance Management Act 1 of 1999, Labour relations Act
• Skills and competencies: Budgeting and Financial Management, Strategic Planning, Report writing, Project Management, Human Resource Management/ Labour Relations, Diversity Management, Communication Skills, Interpersonal Skills, Leadership Skills, Be able to perform under pressure
• Personal attributes:
• Be results oriented, highly motivated, Self-driven, honest, innovative, respectful, creative
• Candidate must have the ability to plan, ability to interpret policies, conduct needs assessment, able to exercise sound judgment, possess cultural awareness and sensitivity
• Demonstrate sound work ethics
MAJOR JOB FUNCTIONS
• Manage, Monitor and Evaluate Services of the respective units( Social Work, Health Care, Child and Youth Care and administration) to ensure that an efficient and effective service is delivered in a holistic and integrated manner to serve the best interest of the child
• Management of the Social Work unit, quality control of the work delivered and advising the Social Worker and Auxiliary Worker with regard to all aspects of the work
• Management of the Health Care Unit, quality control of the work delivered and advising the Nursing Sister with regard to all the aspect of the work.
• Management of the Administration Unit (HRM,HRD,FINANCE & SCM) quality control of the work delivered and advising with regard to all aspects of the work.
• Providing mentorship and guidance to all supervisors to assist them to integrate theory and practice, and to develop appropriate skills
• Manage, Monitor, and Evaluate Efficient, effective & Economical Financial Management of the Institution's budget and accrued assets and ensure the management of inventory & assets
• Development of a Monitoring and Implementation plan for the services rendered by the Centre
• Ensure that all the administrative functions in the unit are performed to the required standards, and effectively use clear objectives, targets and priorities and organize resources in order to maximize quality and efficiency
• Implement functions related to risk management process in all institutional functions
• Management of the Educational and Vocational Skills program
• Management of the Security Services at the Secure Care Centre.
Enquiries: Mr.H. Bhiko 053-6327600 (De Aar)
Mr.S. Cloete 027-7128600 (Springbok)
This post will be filled in the accordance with PHSDSBC Resolution 1 of 2009 agreement on the implementation of the Occupation Specific Dispensation for Social Services Professions and occupations, Non-compliant applications will not be considered. It is the Department's intention to promote equity through the filling of posts, according to the set Employment Equity targets. To facilitate this process successfully, an indication of race, gender and disability status is required.
Applications must be submitted on form Z83, obtainable from any Public Service department or on the internet at http://www.info.gov.za/documents/forms/employ.pdf and should be accompanied by a recently updated, comprehensive CV as well as certified copies of all qualification(s) [Metric certificate must also be attached] and ID-document and Driver's licence (where applicable]. Non-RSA Citizens/Permanent Resident Permit Holders must attach a copy of his/her Permanent Residence Permit to his/her application. Should you be in possession of a foreign qualification, it must be accompanied by an evaluation certificate from the South African Qualification Authority (SAQA). No faxed or emailed applications will be considered. Failure to submit all the requested documents will result in the application not being considered.
Correspondence will be limited to short listed candidates only. Suitable candidates will be subjected to a personnel suitability check (criminal record check, citizenship verification, financial/asset record check, qualification/study verification and previous employment verification). Successful candidates will also be subjected to the security clearance processes. Where applicable, candidates will be subjected to a skills/knowledge test. Successful candidates will be appointed on a probationary period of twelve (12) months, should such a need be identified.
The Department reserves the right not to make appointment(s) to the advertised post(s).
All applications, quoting the relevant reference number, must be directed to:
SPRINGBOK
Postal Service: Registry (Namakwa District) Department of Social Development Private Bag X11 Springbok
Hand delivery to Registry: Ground Floor, Corner Philip & Bree Street Springbok, 8240
DE AAR
Postal Service: Registry (Pixley Ka Seme District) Department of Social Development Private Bag X1001 De Aar 7000
Attention:
Hand delivery to Registry: Orion Hostel, Alpha Road, De Aar, 7000
Mr. L Pula : De Aar
Ms. A. Witbooi: Springbok
Closing date: 13 March 2020
If you have not received any correspondence within 6 weeks of the closing date, please assume that your application has been unsuccessful and the process has been concluded.