To do more Practise in Employee Assistance Programs and Family Therapy to equip empower and educate on different topics related preventions on Gender based violence.
Hi, I’m
Patience Mamsie Madela
Social Worker
Newcastle
Summary
22 years 5 months experience in different fields exposure enabled to apply all methods and skills I have collected .
Enthusiastic and passion driven and has more to offer and mentor .
Strong personality approachable and goal directed in my work.
Hands on and teamwork strategy.
Overview
21
years of professional experience
1
year of post-secondary education
7
Certifications
Work History
Supervising Assistant Probation Officer
Job overview
- Student Social Workers, Social Auxiliary Workers
- Act as Manager in absence of Assistant Manager and Office Manager
WORK MANAGER
Sancankzn
Director
01.2018 - 01.2021
Job overview
- Monitoring 4 offices Msinga, Nqutu, Ladysmith and Newcastle as main office
- This is constituted by 3 districts Amajuba, uThukela, uMzinyathi
- DUTIES :
- Mentoring
- Supervising staff members
- Attending meetings in relation to planning, marketing ,implementation and update regarding mandates in relation to the field
- Mentoring and supervision to the staff for better service delivery
- Overseeing that all offices comply and adhere to policies in relation to the Provincial, National office and funders
- Support to the Board for proper management of funds by arranging in service training and update to relevant stakeholders
- Work closely with other stakeholders Departments and Municipality attending to plans aimed at reducing crime, substance using, victim empowerment and other social ills through prevention and addressing those programmes.
DSD MSINGA
SOCIAL WORK SUPERVISOR
01.2012 - 01.2018
Job overview
- Ensuring that Social Work Services with regard to care, support, protection and development of vulnerable,individuals,groups,families,communities through relevant programmes rendered
- Attend to the matters that could result or stem from social instability in any form
- Supervise ,advise and support Social Workers and volunteers ensuring an effective Social Work Service
- Keep up to date with developments of the Social Work field
- Handle administrative functions required in the unit ensuring that it is undertaking higher level administrative
- Direct and supervise Social Workers inn respect of the scope and duties they are expected to do
- Plan and work together with junior Social Workers towards development areas and ensure that training is provided where needed
- Evaluate performance of each Supervisee and work on problem area
- Monitor the effective rendering of social services in terms of focus groups
- ENSURE PROVISION OF EFFECTIVE AND EFFICIENT SOCIAL WELFARE SERVICES
- Restorative Services (Substance Abuse, Crime prevention and support and Victim Empowerment)
- Special Needs(Care and services to older persons,and services to people living with disabilities)
- Child Care and Protection services(ECD,Alternative Care and Child Abuse)
- Care and Support to families(Family preservation ,families at risk)
- HIV and AIDS (OVC’s receiving services)
- Social Relief
- ENSURE EFFECTIVE AND EFFICIENT FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
- Manage the budget of the One Stop Development Centre
- Ensure compliance with supply Chain Management process
- Ensure that all theft and losses at the office are reported immediately
- Provide budget inputs
- Ensure effective asset management
- Ensure effective fleet management
- Ensure effective physical facility management
- Ensure effective financial control
- Ensure effective management of audit queries
- ENSURE PROVISION OF EFFICIENT AND EFFECTIVE DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH PROGRAMS
- Monitor the effective rendering of the following development programmes
- Youth development
- Women empowerment
- Sustainable livelihoods
- NPO registration and facilitation
- One Stop Development Centre
- Ensure institutional capacity building of all projects
- JOB DIMENSION, Represent Department to Traditional councils
- Represent Department to DAC meetings
- Represent Department to IDP meetings
- Represent Department
- Ensure monitoring of NPO’S
- Represent Department to DSD-Works meetings
- Represent Department to One Stop Development Centre Forum meetings
- Represent Department to Stakeholders meeting
- KNOWLEDGE :
- Service Delivery Improvement Plan
- Knowledge and understanding of Public Service Prescripts
- Knowledge and understanding of line function of the Department
- Knowledge of strategic management and administration, Monitoring ;3 CYCC, Ladysmith as main office
- This is constituted by 4 districts Langalibalele, uThukela, uMzinyathi and Amajuba
- DUTIES :
- Mentoring
- Supervising staff members
- Attending meetings in relation to planning, marketing ,implementation and update regarding mandates in relation to the field
- Mentoring and supervision to the staff for better service delivery
- Overseeing that all offices comply and adhere to policies in relation to the Provincial, National office and funders
- Support to the Board for proper management of funds by arranging in service training and update to relevant stakeholders
- Work closely with other stakeholders Departments and Municipality attending to plans aimed at reducing crime, substance using, victim empowerment and other social ills through prevention and addressing those programmes.
PROBATION OFFICER
01.2005 - 01.2012
Job overview
- Assessment and preparation of children prior to appearing in Court
- Assessment of capability and readiness of children to testify in Court
- Preparing and compiling reports as per Court requisition
- Assessment of children in conflict with the law before they appear in Court
- Assessment of adult offenders assisting Court on appropriate sentencing option
- Supporting and solving staff rising issues which might affect work performance as well as creating and maintaining conducive work conditions
- Attending and contributes to meeting as well as to keep up to date with developments in my field and in management
- Liaise with Stakeholders inter and intra=departmental representatives to enhance integrated service delivery
- Manage capacity building of Social Workers and Stakeholders on relevant programme
- Monitoring and evaluating performance of junior Social Workers for enabling directive in terms of training areas in future
- Overseeing and assuring professionalism in the field amongst colleagues
- Planning and conducting crime prevention related programmes with other Stakeholders
- Planning and conducting victim empowerment related programmes with other Stakeholders
QALAKABUSHA CORRECTIONAL SERVICES
SOCIAL WORKER
01.2002 - 01.2005
Job overview
- Counselling inmates/integration with their families, communities
- Conducting life skills and development Programmes
- Conducting interviews to inmates and awaiting trials
- Provide support to victims and families concerned
- Conducting casework, and group work within the institution
- Establishing and maintaining partnership with other Stakeholders regarding social crime prevention
- Conduct family conferences, workshops in school and communities aimed at crime prevention
- Preparing inmates for movement into the community towards completion of sentences
- Ongoing liaison with Court, SAPS and Correctional ServicesCo-ordinating HIV/AIDS ,Social Crime Prevention and VEP ProgrammesEmpowering inmates on lifeskills,self identity,leadership,acceptance,respect,problem solving, decision making and domestic violence., Compiling reports and performs all statutory functions applicable to the relevant functions
- Render social work services with regard to the care, support ,protection and development of vulnerable individuals,group,families and communities through relevant programmes
- Conduct assessment aimed at identifying conditions in individuals,group,families and communities
- Render and conduct interventions required to address identified conditions in individuals,group,families and communities
- Develop and implement interventions required to address identified conditions
- Provide professional counselling to affected individuals ,group, families and communities
- Aply all methods of Social Work-casework, groupwork,community work and research within the scope of application
- Implement family preservation programmes
- Identify needs to establishment of Early Childhood Development Sites
- Assisting existing sites to meet registration requirements with Department as well as NPO Act
- Networking with NGO’s,CBO’s to promote registration of community based facilities
- Identify and co-ordinate community development programmes as required
- Liaising with other State parasitical Departments on ECD involved with available projects enabling speeding up process of extension orders for District office
- Motivate, mentoring and support junior Social Workers towards high standard of performance through planned sessions
- Attend to complex cases
- Co-ordinating Disability Forum at district level
- Align department services with those of private sector to avoid duplication of services
- Establish and conduct Stakeholder’s Forums
- Developing implementing and maintaining procedure and guidelines in programmes within district
ZULULAND MENTAL HEALTH
SOCIAL WORKER
01.2001 - 01.2002
Job overview
- Conducting –Casework,groupwork,community work
- Counselling individuals, parents for dealing with people with special needs and challenges –mental, physical and emotional
- Attending meetings at local and Regional level-provide feedback to other Stakeholders on our service delivery
- Liaising with other Stakeholders
- Co-ordinating HIV/AIDS
- Assisting with grant application,disability,Care dependency and entry to Special school
- Compiling reports,refferals and Court Inquiry
- Conducting craftwork training individuals, community members and families of the people living with disability
- Formation and conducting support group
- Attending to issues affecting employees, clients living with disability involved in our projects-craft and gardening
ST JOSEPH CHIDRENS HOME
SOCIAL WORKER
01.2000 - 01.2001
Job overview
- Screening and admitting children to the Institution
- Conducting interviews : intake and adoption application
- Assuring that correct procedure is followed when taking children for: host, foster as well as adoption placement
- Liaising with field Social Worker in motivating hosting especially during holidays
- Assist and support child care workers to register and upgrade their education and to register with their Council for standardised service delivery
- Liaising with Regional Office,NGO’s,CBO’s and Stakeholders
- Provide support and counselling to staff members and children whenever needed
- Liaising with Regional Office for registration of the Home, admission procedure and discharging children
- Admnistration Work-filing, record keeping for auditing purpose
- Groupwork-support,lifeskills and counselling
Education
GLENCOE HIGH SCHOOL, ISIZULU
AFRIKAANS from ENGLISH
University Overview
GRADE 12 (MATRIC)
BIOLOGY
UNIVERSITY OF ZULULAND
GEOGRAPHY from FUNCTIONAL MATHEMATICS
B.A. from SOCIAL WORK
CRIMINOLOGY
University Overview
GPA: .3
AMAJUBA FET, PERSONNELTRAINING, LABOUR RELATIONS
PSYCHOLOGY-1,2,3
:SOCIOLOGY-1,2,3
:SOCIAL WORK-1,2
01.2012 - 04.2013
University Overview
3,4, PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT-, INTRODUCTION INTO COMPUTER-N4
AND
Skills
Human Resource management skillsundefined
Certification
RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION :CHRISTIAN
Affiliations
- National Association of Social Workers
- Affiliates on our Board of management for professionalism SACSSP South African Council of Social Services Professions.
Interests
Timeline
Director
Sancankzn
01.2018 - 01.2021
SOCIAL WORK SUPERVISOR
DSD MSINGA
01.2012 - 01.2018
AMAJUBA FET, PERSONNELTRAINING, LABOUR RELATIONS
PSYCHOLOGY-1,2,3
:SOCIOLOGY-1,2,3
:SOCIAL WORK-1,2
01.2012 - 04.2013
PROBATION OFFICER
01.2005 - 01.2012
SOCIAL WORKER
QALAKABUSHA CORRECTIONAL SERVICES
01.2002 - 01.2005
SOCIAL WORKER
ZULULAND MENTAL HEALTH
01.2001 - 01.2002
SOCIAL WORKER
ST JOSEPH CHIDRENS HOME
01.2000 - 01.2001
Supervising Assistant Probation Officer
WORK MANAGER
GLENCOE HIGH SCHOOL, ISIZULU
AFRIKAANS from ENGLISH
04.1987
BIOLOGY
UNIVERSITY OF ZULULAND
GEOGRAPHY from FUNCTIONAL MATHEMATICS
B.A. from SOCIAL WORK
04.1999
CRIMINOLOGY
AND
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