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 you, as a colleague, are needed by the State Social Care Center "Zemgale" team! State Social Care Center "ZEMGALE" is the largest state provider of long-term social care and social rehabilitation services in Latvia. We invite a SOCIAL CARE WORKER to work at the "Rūja" branch for a fixed-term position. Requirements for candidates: social care worker qualification or 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 study programs related to social care was completed in the amount of at least four credit points or 160 hours; Desired professional experience working with persons with mental health disorders. Knowledge of regulations related to job duties. Responsibility, accuracy and honesty, ability to be client-oriented. Valid electronic signature. Main responsibilities: Ensure the provision of 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 rights and obligations, as well as the procedures for receiving social services. Ensure, no less than once a year, assessment of clients' functional status and, in cooperation with social work specialists, develop an individual social care or social rehabilitation plan according to clients' social care or social rehabilitation needs. Ensure transparent documentation of information in client files about the progress of the social care process and make entries in client files at least 1x per week about the progress of the social rehabilitation plan. Implement individual social care or social rehabilitation plans for clients, 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 the community. Assess client 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 file. Prepare and complete work documentation in accordance with regulatory requirements and procedures established at the institution. We offer: social guarantees in accordance with state administration regulations salary (gross) EUR 851–EUR 1220 according to professional experience and competencies, probation period salary up to EUR 870; normal 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 good working conditions friendly, responsive and professional colleagues; additional leave for special risk (3 working days per year) and additional leave for annual appraisal (from 4 - 10 working days per year). Work location: VSAC "Zemgale" branch "Rūja", Jeri, Jeru Parish, Valmieras District. Send your professional activity description (CV) and copies of documents confirming education with the notation "Social Care Worker" to the email: [email protected]. Attention! VSAC "Zemgale" personnel document circulation will be handled electronically, therefore, to sign documents you will need to use a self-issued electronic signature. By applying for the announced position, you entrust your personal data to the State Social Care Center "Zemgale". Detailed information on personal data processing aspects for this purpose is indicated on the institution's website at: https://www.vsaczemgale.gov.lv/lv/media/2279/download Please note that we will contact only those candidates who are invited for an interview. We will inform only those candidates invited for a work interview about rejection. If within three weeks after sending your CV you do not receive an invitation to a job interview, you may consider that your candidacy was not advanced to the negotiation stage. *State Social Care Center "ZEMGALE" (reg. no. 40900035103) is a direct state administration institution under the jurisdiction of the Minister of Welfare that provides state-funded long-term social care and social rehabilitation services to adult persons of both genders in an institution with severe mental health disorders (I and II disability groups).

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