About the position
Background:
- Wits Health Consortium (Pty) Limited ("WHC") is a wholly-owned Company of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (South Africa) under its Faculty of Health Sciences.
- WHC provides Faculty with a legal framework within which to operate the research and other activities necessary to support its academic objectives. In addition, WHC offers a range of products and services to Academics
Main purpose of the job:
- To coordinate and manage referral processes for vulnerable participants by supporting the identification of referral needs, maintaining accurate records, and establishing strong links with local services to ensure participants receive appropriate support, including counselling, legal assistance, and access to social services
Location:
- School of Public Health, Parktown, Johannesburg
Key performance areas:
- Identify adult and child participants who have social and health needs such as experience of child maltreatment, sexual violence and/or IPV
- Complete assessments and home visits to assess the situation
- Provide counselling to families who need support
- Assist participants to access social grants and official documentation
- Monitor progress of ongoing caseload and any ethical issues arising from the research and provide regular and ad-hoc reports to the project manager as required by the investigators and ethics committee
- Refer participants to existing services where long-term or specialist involvement is required, e.g. HIV testing
- Follow up to ensure that the case is being adequately managed
- Implement study according to research protocols
- Contribute towards the progress of research project
- Maintain study records in accordance with the study protocol
- Ensure ethical procedures are followed
- Support research assistants
- Liaise with department of health, facility managers, community leaders
- Set up meetings with government and community-based organisations to inform them about the project
- Meet with partners to discuss cases for referral
- Provide feedback to partners on the progression of the project
- Organise and run debriefing meetings as required
Required minimum education and training:
- A Social Work Degree
- Registration with the South African Council for Social Service Professions (SACSSP)
Required minimum work experience:
- 5 years’ experience as a Social Worker
Desirable additional education, work experience and personal abilities:
- South African Police Service clearance certificate
- National Register for Sexual Offenders clearance certificate
- Crisis intervention and counselling skills
- Good interpersonal and communication skills, ability to work in a team and to work with and manage people from diverse backgrounds
- Strong management, administrative and computer literacy skills
- Ability to function in a fast-paced multi-tasking environment and to pay attention to detail
- Well organised, problem-solver, with sound time-management skills
- Intellectual and personal integrity, a professional work ethic, and a willingness to work according to deadlines and under pressure
- Clean driver’s license Code B
- Ability to work Tuesday to Saturday and travel within South Africa
- Fluency in English, isiZulu, isiXhosa
TO APPLY:
- Only if you meet the minimum job requirements and experience as mentioned above, you may submit a detailed updated CV
- Please Apply Online and complete your registration via our website to enable and protect you as a candidate, and to accept the new POPIA terms and conditions
- This will then create your permanent profile with which you can apply for all jobs as advertised by AJ PERSONNEL
- However, you may remove your profile from AJ PERSONNEL when you are no longer in the job market
- Please take note that the applicants who do not adhere to the above criteria will not be considered for the respective position
- Wits Health Consortium will only respond to shortlisted candidates
- Candidates who have not been contacted within two weeks of the closing date can consider their applications to be unsuccessful
- Closing date: 18 July 2025
- Note: No CV will be accepted after the closing date
Please note:
- WHC, in accordance with its Employment Equity goals and plan, will give preference to suitable applicants from designated groups as defined in the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998 and subsequent amendments thereto
- AJ Personnel is only responsible for advertising and the response handling on behalf of their client Wits Health Consortium
- AJ Personnel does not have any salary or other information regarding the position
Desired Skills:
- Socail Worker
- Degree
- Johannesburg
- Immediately
- NGO
- NPO
