Thembi Mkhatshwa
Social Worker
Hectorville Lulekani,LP
Summary
Invested Social Worker dedicated to forming trusting relationships and advocating for best interest of clients. Expertise in building on the strengths of clients and team members, helping them to provide safe and nurturing environment for vulnerable individuals, groups and families. Respectful and compassionate professional offering 4-years background serving community by providing guidance for clients in need.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Language
Work History
District Linkage Officer (DREAMS-YOUNG WOMEN)
Future families
2 2023 - 9 2023
- Identify and engage with stakeholders for linkages purpose
- Support Mentors and trainers based in Mopani District to ensure that the linkages is administered in lign with the company guidelines and goals
- Conduct community mapping, referral and linkages
- Interact with stakeholders to keep on track of the learnership, internship and possible employment placement opportunities
- Conduct labor market assessment in Mopani District and transcribe the findings and submit to District manager
- Facilitate employment, entrepreneurial placement & skills training, thereafter compiling process note report
- Perform stakeholder engagement and build effective rapport
- Organize and plan training skills in Mopani district and invite stakeholders
- Attend stakeholder engagement meetings and compile minutes
- Match young women with relevant skills after assessing their CV's and Qualifications
- Report on challenges and progress to the District manager
- Work as a life coach to counsel and encourages young women through personal and career challenges
- Provide training, mentorship and coaching to IES team and Young women who are entrepreneurs
- Capture services and linkages in Redcap
- Work closely with M and E team to identify and address the challenges in capturing & linkages
- Perform data capturing, quality and validation
- Report daily, weekly and monthly activities to the District manager
- Conduct supervision and performance reviews and management of each team member
- Manage and coordinate the linkage to entrepreneurship and employment opportunities
- Facilitate the recruitment and placement process of Mentors, trainers and Yw
- Evaluate the learning program or training and compile a evaluation report.
Mentor Supervisor (DREAMS-AGYW)
Fhi360
03.2022 - 12.2022
- Support governmental recruitment of AGYW Mentors in the rural communities within the DREAMS program
- Provide supportive supervision and guidance to AGYW Mentors
- Track AGYW Mentors progress on social asset building sessions, linkages & layering of DREAMS
- Mentoring, coaching and empowering adolescent girls and young women to improve their safety
- Assist and coach school learners in career guidance and promote decision making
- Conduct and facilitate group sessions at schools, Tvets and community as a whole
- Assist HR officer with the recruitment & selection process of Mentors, and make recommendations
- Supervise and manage AGYW Mentors and provide support
- Ensure that resources are available to use
- Escalate challenges to District coordinator
- Collect and conduct data validation on a daily basis
- Work closely with stakeholders to provide effective services to AGYW in need
- Assist out of school youth in Cv writing, job application and interview preparation
- Provide psychosocial support, referral and linkages to OVCY
- Provide Health talk education in relation to HIV/AIDS, SRH, PrEP, PEP and GBV
- Assist in Capturing information into Redcap and CBMIS
- Collect and conduct data validation on a daily basis
- Provide orientation to newly appointed Mentors
- Working closely with educators and other school personnel to enhance risk assessment and management amongst school learners, focusing on teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, suicide and looking at other issues such as performance, absenteeism, school withdrawal or dropped out.
Sub-district Linkage Officer (DREAMS-AYFS)
Anova Health Institute
07.2019 - 12.2021
- Support health care facilities, schools and colleges by providing Health and wellness services including linkage and referrals
- Provide IEC to AGYW and ABYM in relation to HIV/TB, SRH, PrEp GBV and PEP
- Distribute IEC materials to the AGYW
- Provide student with career guidance support and promote decision making
- Provide psychosocial support, referrals and linkages to Identified OVCY, adult living with HIV/TB
- Manage and supervise the work done by peer educators and provide support
- Provide mentorship, coaching and training Hcws, chwcs, CBO's, auxiliary social worker
- Link newly diagnosed patients with HIV/TB and do follow up; provide coaching to clients with chronic diseases in their treatment journey
- Work closely with club facilitators and CHW's to promote retention and adherence to treatment
- Provide personal & career coaching sessions to students who are struggling to cope with their studies at Senwabarwana TVET in Blougerg subdistrict
- Facilitate disclosure process and support groups to PLHIV/OVCY
- Identify and submit list of defaulters, lost to follow up to tracing team and CHCWs
- Perform administration task and filing
- Identify adolescent and young people with unsupervised Viral load and refer them to Nurse Mentors and psychosocial team for clinical and social attention
- Supervise and manage peer educators and provide support where necessarily
- Manage work performance of peer educators and evaluate their performance
- Give feedback to the peer educators and allow them to make input
- Perform risk assessment and management to PLHIV
- Compile weekly and monthly reports, presentations and submit to Line manager, AYFS technical advisor.
Voluntarily School Social Worker
Lulekani primary school
09.2018 - 06.2019
- Provide educational health talk and support to females and males adolescent concerning SRH,HIV/TB, STI, VMMC and Substances Abuse
- Maintain case files and school performance reports to track learners challenges and progress
- Communicate with parents, teachers and administrators to understand learners challenges
- Help learners and families suffering from Abuse, violence, hunger to access resources and support
- Work closely with educators to identify learners who are struggling with their school work; conduct personal and career coaching to the learners
- Work as a life coach at school to provide personal and job performance coaching to assist in overcoming challenges or barriers in meeting goals, thus promote a healthy work balance
- Advocate and negotiate on behalf of the learners with their school committe and parents about the needs, rights and well being of the learners
- Help learners with their homework; provide homework supervision
- Assist teachers to maintain order in the classroom from grade R to 7; teach Life Orientation and Life skills & evaluate their learning progress
- Provide aftercare services to learners who are struggling to cope with their school work using evidence based tools
- Assist educators and parents to deal with behavioral issues through communication to identify the reason of the learners distress
- Provide psychosocial support; treatment plans to establish intervention plans and prevention programs
- Identify learners with substance abuse and suicidal behavior and provide individual and groups therapeutic counseling to minimize the risk.
Social Work Intern
Social Development
07.2017 - 08.2018
- Assist with case management of all clients involving various issues such as child neglect, physical abuse, domestic violence, GBV, substance abuse, non adherence to ART, financial hardship and food insecurity
- Perform counseling to clients in order to assist and support them with the above mentioned hardships, while promoting self empowerment, decision making and personal growth
- Assist clients and staff in navigating available services both internally and externally
- Identify and provide psychosocial support, referrals and Linkage to OVCY and do follow up
- Conduct and facilitate family preservation sessions and remains neutral at all times
- Conduct and facilitate substance abuse group sessions and campaigns in schools, clinics and communities
- Assist with facilitation of new and old foster cases, review and conduct supervision
- Promote family strengthening through capacitating families with parental skills and behavioral issues
- Coach clients to promote adherence and retention to treatment by conducting health talk, counseling & coaching sessions
- Conduct home visit to assess the situational background of the clients, provide necessarily support and compile a report
- Maintain and enforce confidentiality of all clients files, documents and information
- Assess, monitor and evaluate child day care, dropping, CBO's, identify challenges and provide support
- Participate in case review meetings, chair the meeting and scribe minutes
- Monitor and maintain accuracy of program data and documentation of all activities
- Oversee and manage the work of the student social workers, social auxiliaries, CYCWs
- Coaches student social workers & social auxiliary workers in job performance to maintain a healthy work balance, and minimise burnout
- Coaches the families and couples to meet their parenting and marital goals; Provide parental plan or co-parenting coaching sessions to the separated divorced couples
- Coaches vulnerable people such as orphaned, PwD, and PLHIV to set and reach their ultimate goals
- Prepare all reports as assigned and required and consolidate the subdistrict reports
- Conduct behavioral change assessment and risk management to the clients at risk of suicidal and other identified social issues
- Promote a good health and wellness lifestyle to the clients
- Assist Social Workers in child protection and child in conflict with the law cases and reports.
Education
Grade 12 -
Magulasavi high school
Bachelor of Social Work - undefined
Nort West University
Short course in adherence counseling for ART management - undefined
FPD
Conflict Management/HIV/AIDS Management in the workplace/Train the trainer/Coaching - undefined
E-learning
Elderly Caregiver Assistant/Au Pair-Early childhood development/ First Aid Level 1 & 2. - undefined
Marklink Training International institute
Teaching English foreign Language - undefined
TEFL Universal
Facilitator - undefined
BBT
Marriage and Family Counselor - undefined
TIMFA
Skills
Interpersonal, problem solving, communication, conflict management
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 05/27/1989
- Gender: Female
- Nationality: South Africa
- Driving License: Code 10
- Marital Status: Single
- Religion: Christian
References
- Lerato Mahasha, Future families, Trainer, 0723240149
- Tebatso Phago, Fhi360, Mentor Supervisor, 0797011927
- Amukelani Mkansi, Anova Health Institute, Linkage Officer Coordinator, 0717933610
- Mrs Mkoele, Lulekani primary school, Educator, 0790708227
- Ms Mkansi, Department of Social Development, HIV/AIDS Program coordinator, 0793158365
Timeline
Mentor Supervisor (DREAMS-AGYW)
Fhi360
03.2022 - 12.2022
Sub-district Linkage Officer (DREAMS-AYFS)
Anova Health Institute
07.2019 - 12.2021
Voluntarily School Social Worker
Lulekani primary school
09.2018 - 06.2019
Social Work Intern
Social Development
07.2017 - 08.2018
District Linkage Officer (DREAMS-YOUNG WOMEN)
Future families
2 2023 - 9 2023
Grade 12 -
Magulasavi high school
Bachelor of Social Work - undefined
Nort West University
Short course in adherence counseling for ART management - undefined
FPD
Conflict Management/HIV/AIDS Management in the workplace/Train the trainer/Coaching - undefined
E-learning
Elderly Caregiver Assistant/Au Pair-Early childhood development/ First Aid Level 1 & 2. - undefined
Marklink Training International institute
Teaching English foreign Language - undefined
TEFL Universal
Facilitator - undefined
BBT
Marriage and Family Counselor - undefined
TIMFA
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