Social Worker (Restorative Care Department)

at  Fei Yue Community Services

Job Category: Social Worker
Job Type: Full Time
Job Location: ChangiSimei

The Restorative Care Department is to provide specific services to inmates and their family members with the following objectives:

• To provide assistance to inmates and their families who are in need of support, at any point during the incarceration phase (e.g. in the areas of financial hardships or managing family-related issues).
• To provide assistance through aftercare support for releasing inmates who are without family support on their transition back to the community.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Degree in Social Work or Degree with a Graduate Diploma in Social Work from an accredited institution
• Comfortable to work with offenders and ex-offenders in Prison settings
• Able to work in a fast-pace and stressful environment.
• Required to work on weeknights and weekends on needs basis
• Has maturity, communication skills and interpersonal skills to work with professionals, and families from diverse backgrounds
• Able to develop empathy/ empathic responses, reflective capacity self-awareness.
• Adaptive with multi-tasking skills and problem-solving skills
• Personal effectiveness, independence, and good time management
• Has strong writing skills
• Team player
• Only Singaporeans

• Provide information and referral services for offenders, ex-offenders and/or their next of kin
• Conduct risk assessment, social investigation, assessment, case formulation, intervention planning.
• Timely preparation and submission of reports and case recordings.
• Conduct meetings, sessions, workshops and programme to offenders, ex-offenders and/or their next of kin