If you are energetic and ready for new challenges,
and you want to develop yourself and use your professional knowledge and experience to achieve common goals,
then we need you as a colleague
in the State Social Care Center "Zemgale" team!*
The State Social Care Center "ZEMGALE"
is the largest state provider of long-term social care and social rehabilitation services in Latvia.
We invite you to work as a SOCIAL CARE WORKER (profession code: 341201) at the "Ropaži" 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 acquired 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, provided that during studies or professional development education you completed a part of study program related to social care with a minimum scope of four credit points or 160 hours;
Desired professional experience working with persons with mental health disorders.
Knowledge of regulatory acts related to job duties.
Responsibility, accuracy and honesty, ability to be client-oriented.
Understanding of social care worker job duties.
Valid electronic signature.
State language proficiency: upper level, grade 1 (C1).
Main Duties:
Provide social care services to clients of the branch.
Help clients improve existing and acquire new social skills.
Inform and educate clients on matters related to their obligations and rights, as well as procedures for receiving social services.
Ensure, at least 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 reflection 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 clients' individual social care or social rehabilitation plans, modify and supplement them according to changes in the client's life situation.
Help clients adapt to social and physical environment, promote integration into society.
Assess clients' personality, self-care abilities, physical and mental health status. Monitor changes in mental status, behavior and health status of clients in care. Inform on-duty nurses, psychiatrists of changes and make entries in client file.
Prepare and complete work documentation according to regulatory requirements and procedures established in the institution.
We Offer:
social guarantees in accordance with state administration provisions
salary (gross) EUR 851 – EUR 1220 according to professional experience and competencies; remuneration during probation period 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
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: "Ropaži" branch, "Juglaskrasti", Ropaži, Ropažu parish, Ropažu municipality, LV-2135.
Send copies of professional activity description (CV) and documents confirming education marked "Social Care Worker" to email: [email protected].
Attention! VSAC "Zemgale" personnel document circulation will be provided electronically, therefore to sign documents you will need to use a separately created 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 achieving this purpose is provided 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 rejection only those candidates who are invited for a job interview. In case you have not received an invitation to a job interview within three weeks after sending your CV, you may consider that your candidacy was not forwarded to the interview stage.
*The State Social Care Center "ZEMGALE" (reg. no. 40900035103) is a direct state administration institution under the supervision of the Minister of Welfare that provides state-funded long-term social care and social rehabilitation services to adult persons of both genders residing in an institution with severe mental health disorders (disability groups I and II).If you are energetic and ready for new challenges,
and you want to develop yourself and use your professional knowledge and experience to achieve common goals,
then we need you as a colleague
in the State Social Care Center "Zemgale" team!*
The State Social Care Center "ZEMGALE"
is the largest state provider of long-term social care and social rehabilitation services in Latvia.
We invite you to work as a SOCIAL CARE WORKER (profession code: 341201) at the "Ropaži" branch!
Requirements for candidates:
social care worker qualification, short-cycle higher education in social care or…