Social Care Worker

If you are energetic and ready for new challenges, and wish to develop yourself and use your professional knowledge and experience to achieve common goals, then we need exactly you as a colleague in the team of the State Social Care Center "Zemgale"! The State Social Care Center "ZEMGALE" is the largest provider of state long-term social care and social rehabilitation services in Latvia! We invite you to work as a SOCIAL CARE WORKER at the "Valka" branch! Requirements for candidates: Social care worker qualification, short-cycle higher education in social care or second-cycle higher education in social work or charitable social work, if also obtained short-cycle professional higher education and fifth-level professional qualification in social care or first-cycle higher education in social work or charitable social work and social worker qualification, if during studies or professional development education a part of the study program related to social care has been completed in the amount of at least four credit points or 160 hours. Desirable professional experience working with people with mental disorders. Knowledge of regulatory acts related to the performance of job duties. Responsibility, accuracy and honesty, ability to be client-oriented. Understanding of the duties of a social care worker. Valid electronic signature. Key responsibilities: Provide social care services to the branch's clients. Help clients improve existing and acquire new social skills. Inform and educate clients on matters related to their obligations and rights, as well as on the procedure for receiving social services. Ensure, no less than once a year, assessment of clients' functional status and, in cooperation with social work specialists, develop individual social care or social rehabilitation plans, according to clients' social care or social rehabilitation needs. Ensure transparent information reflection in client files about the progress of the social care process and make entries in client files about the progress of the social rehabilitation plan at least 1x per week. Implement clients' individual social care or social rehabilitation plans, modify and supplement them in accordance with changes in the client's life situation. Help clients adapt to the social and physical environment, promote integration into society. Assess clients' personality, self-care abilities, physical and mental health status. Monitor changes in the mental state, behavior and health status of clients in care. Inform on-duty nurses, psychiatrists of changes and make entries in the client's file. Prepare and process work documentation in accordance with regulatory requirements and procedures established in the institution. We offer: Social guarantees in accordance with state administration regulations. Salary (gross) EUR 851 – EUR 1220 depending on professional experience and competencies; remuneration during trial period up to EUR 870. Accumulated reduced working hours (35 hours per week). 25% monthly allowance for work related to special risk. Health insurance after 3 months of work. Work experience in state administration. Additional leave for special risk (3 working days per year) and additional leave for annual evaluation (from 4 - 10 working days per year); Friendly, responsive and professional colleagues. Work location: VSAC "Zemgale" branch "Valka", Indrānu iela 5, Valka. Send your professional activity description (CV) and copies of documents confirming education marked "Social Care Worker" to the email: [email protected]. Attention! VSAC "Zemgale" personnel document management will be carried out electronically, therefore, to sign documents you will need to use a self-issued electronic signature. By applying for the advertised position, you entrust your personal data to the State Social Care Center "Zemgale". Detailed information on personal data processing aspects for achieving this purpose is indicated on the institution's website at: https://www.vsaczemgale.gov.lv/lv/media/2279/download We inform you that we will contact only those candidates who are invited for an interview. We will notify of refusal only to candidates who are invited for a job interview. If within three weeks after sending your CV you have not received an invitation to a job interview, you may consider that your candidacy was not advanced to the interview stage. *State Social Care Center "ZEMGALE" (reg. no. 40900035103) is a direct state administration institution under the authority of the Minister of Welfare that provides state-funded long-term social care and social rehabilitation services to adult persons of both genders in the institution with severe mental disorders (I and II disability groups).

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