Lungile Dludla
Phumula Ext 21 (Roodekop)
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
Work History
Social Worker/Project Manager
St Francis Care Centre (Vosloorus Home Based Care services)
Vosloorus
01.2021
- Manage, supervise, and motivate support the staff in providing psychological support to adults and children infected and affected by HIV
- Network with stakeholders
- Plan, budget and provide monthly reports to the Board and fundraisers
- Ensuring the development and maintenance of database and record keeping system
- Human resource matters from staff and volunteers
- Implementing policies and procedures of the organisation
- Marketing of the organisation.
Social Work Supervisor
Boksburg Child Welfare (Vosloorus Service Centre)
Vosloorus
01.2016 - 06.2021
- Supervising social workers, Social Auxiliary workers, Admin staff, Volunteers, and students
- Implementing and supervising community work programmes
- Supervision of all statutory work by social service staff, ensuring that the Children's Act is properly implemented
- Canalisation of all reports from social workers and auxiliary workers
- Allocation of work to social service staff
- Responsible for consolidation of office statistics, compiling and presenting of quarterly reports to Board of management
- Presenting yearly report at AGM
- Supervising administration staff, reception, and general workers
- Monitoring the management of home-based care programme and group work
- Planning of staff meetings and ensuring that office matters are discussed, and minutes taken
- Planning and conducting of individual and group supervision sessions
- Attending management and other stakeholder meetings
- Planning of child protection week activities and other national days for woman, youth, and children
- Authorising applications for social relief to qualifying clients
- Authorising requests for needed resources for the implementations of programmes and other duties
- Dealing with difficult clients or challenges which social workers cannot handle.
Senior Social Worker
Boksburg Child Welfare (Vosloorus Service Centre)
Vosloorus
04.2011 - 06.2016
- Providing care and protection to children by: Placing children in foster care and supervising those placements
- Implementing the children's Act i.e., Care and Protection of children
- Compiling and presenting reports to the Children's Court
- Assisting the Children's Court to make recommendations and orders for the care and contact of children born out of wedlock and or divorced parents
- Removing children from harmful environments and placing them in private place of safety or child and youth centres
- Supervising Social Auxiliary Workers.
Social Worker
St. Francis Care Centre
02.2006 - 03.2011
- Working with adults who are terminally ill due to HIV/AIDS
- Family re-unification services for children who are committed to the children's home
- Recruiting host and foster families
- Supervising children's placements
- Providing counselling to patients and their families
- Providing Psycho-Social support to families who are infected or affected by HIV/AIDS
- Supervising Home based care volunteers, ensuring that identified orphans and vulnerable children receive assistance from various government departments and NGO's
- Referring clients to various government departments and NGOs for grants, material assistance and other needed services.
Centre Manager
Sizanani Centre
04.2005 - 01.2006
- Working with children and youth who are infected or affected by HIV/AIDS
- Orienting of children and youth to the centre
- Liaising with various departments on behalf of children and youth
- Tracing of family members
- Identifying prospective foster parents and host parents
- Supporting child & youth care workers to ensure that they perform their duties
- Keeping children's documents and compiling reports
- Ensuring that children who are ill are taken to the health facilities and ensuring that they are given medication properly
- Arranging educational tours and family /foster parent visits.
Senior Social Worker
Nkandla Welfare and Population development
10.1999 - 03.2005
- Overseeing and supporting new social workers and student social workers
- Acting as District Manager during the absence of the District Manager
- Integrating social services, social security, and social development
- Assisting communities with project management including the formulating of business plans for funding
- Monitoring and evaluating community development programmes
- Compiling monthly reports on all activities and programmes including financial reports
- Attending meetings, workshops at district and regional level
- Overseeing and supporting administration staff and general assistance
- Establishing early childhood development centres
- Establishing older persons pension's committees and forums.
Social Worker
Nkandla Welfare and development
08.1996 - 01.1999
- Conducting assessments aimed at identifying problematic conditions in individuals, groups, families, and communities
- Develop and implement intervention required to address the identified condition
- Networking with other stakeholders
- Compiling court reports and performing statutory functions
- Conducting awareness programmes
- Supervising foster care placements
- Conducting intake in the office and during outreach days to the people who could not reach the office
- Conducting home visits and compiling reports for children's court
- Compiling pre-sentencing reports for criminal court matters.
Timeline
Social Worker/Project Manager
St Francis Care Centre (Vosloorus Home Based Care services)
01.2021
Social Work Supervisor
Boksburg Child Welfare (Vosloorus Service Centre)
01.2016 - 06.2021
Senior Social Worker
Boksburg Child Welfare (Vosloorus Service Centre)
04.2011 - 06.2016
Social Worker
St. Francis Care Centre
02.2006 - 03.2011
Centre Manager
Sizanani Centre
04.2005 - 01.2006
Senior Social Worker
Nkandla Welfare and Population development
10.1999 - 03.2005
Social Worker
Nkandla Welfare and development
08.1996 - 01.1999
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