Social Worker - 60% - Hermel PHC

- Function responsibilities include:

Network:

• Maintain and participate in network of partner organisations that can provide answers to social problems but also care to the needs of the beneficiaries.

Social activities: During home visits and in the structures in which MSF is working, the social worker is required to conduct the following activities:

• Understands and document experiences of refugees accessing health care.
• Identifies social, psychosocial, socio-economic needs and provides information/advise to the beneficiaries on existing social services responding to the needs detected and/or expressed by the beneficiaires and/or their families.
• Provides a prelimiary social assessment and the necessary care to beneficiaries accessing the MSF services.
• Refers most vulnerable beneficiaires to the relevant and appropriate professionals or institutions and follow up this referrals.
• Ensures case management if & when appropriate, for the most vulnerable cases.
• Follows-up defaulters.

- Monitoring & reporting:

• Provides the supervisor with a monthly report of the activities executed.
• Keeps statistics updated.

- Specific activities:

• Has an updated overview of all service providers (health & non health) in the MSF areas of information.
• Implements the referral system established with other organizations by the supervisor and coordinates, follows up the referral with these partners.
• Actively participates medical meetings if required.