Youth Worker

3 years exp

**Roles & Responsibilities**

**ABOUT THE ROLE**

CARE Singapore offers year-long preventive and holistic life-skill programs designed for Primary and Secondary School students.

Youth workers provide social-emotional support to vulnerable and at-risk children and youths in either schools or community setting. Working with a team, they also engage stakeholders like school key personnel, parents, volunteers, etc, to provide holistic support to the client involved.

Key responsibilities include:

- Develop case and care plans for youths
- Implement assessment frameworks and approaches for casework and group work
- Conduct casework interventions
- Develop programmes using evidence-based framework
- Deliver programmes independently
- Evaluate effectiveness of programmes
- Assess needs of youths based on information and feedback collated from multiple stakeholders
- Collaborate with stakeholders to achieve common goals
- Manage volunteers in the delivery of programmes and interventions
- Implement the outreach plans
- Implement core programmes and services to be delivered in schools
- Implement interest or play-based programmes for youths with partner organisations
- Implement support mechanisms in promoting youth development
- Identify gaps between the programmes, policies and schemes
- Implement legislative frameworks, protocols and procedures in youth work
**CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS**

**Technical Competencies**:

- Degree in either youth work, counseling, psychology or social work
- At least 3 yrs of relevant experience
- Imparting life-skills, engaging children and youths in a large group (up to 40)
- Conversant in English
- An additional command of Chinese, Malay or Tamil would be good
- Occasional out of hrs work may be required
**Core Competencies**:

- Desires to make positive impact in youths and young persons
- Able to perform basic administrative duties
- Ability to work in a fast paced and dynamic environment for events
- Have the desire to learn and passion to serve community needs
- Resilience, passion for service, and team player
**Preferred achievements / characteristics**:

- Reliability, quality, efficiency and courteousness of services delivered
- Effective teamwork and contribution to the achievement of team goals

Do indicate your expected salary and availability.

We are a social service organisation specialising in engaging children and youths at risk of academic failure, emotional and social maladjustment, and juvenile delinquency.

We offer school-based social work services as well as community-based youth engagement programmes.

By set-up, we are a registered society and voluntary welfare organisation with Institutions of a Public Character charity status.