Skills

  • Healthcare
  • social Worker in MHPSS

Experience

Christabel Mabhura

Work experience
  • Child Welfare Services:
  • Carrying out assessments for children in need of care and develop a care plan according to the needs and the best interest of the child
  • Identifying children in need of care and protecting them from abuse and exploitation.
  • Removing children from abusive environments and placing them in places of safety through interviewing, assessing and applying relevant statutory instruments to ensure the children's best interests were upheld.
  • Designing and following up on child and family care plans
  • Compiling and presenting probation officer's reports on the character and environments of minors in conflict with the law to the children's court to guide decision making especially for the magistrate to give rehabilitative sentences.
  • Handling complex child protection cases and managing a high volume of cases.
  • Participating in the rehabilitation of delinquent juveniles (children in conflict with the law) through systemic counseling, institutionalization and supervision.
  • Placing children in foster care and adoption considering their best interests.
  • Facilitating formation and revival of community child protection committees (CPCs) · Carrying out school and community awareness campaigns against child abuse and exploitation and promoting respect of children's rights.
  • Assisting child-headed families, families on the streets, those with disabilities and disadvantaged clients to enhance their social, economic, physical and psychological functioning through processing public assistance and counseling.
  • Ensuring that all child protection services are efficiently and effectively provided through raising awareness on care and safeguarding children with the help of other departments such as health, judiciary system, schools and community child care workers
  • Applying for assistive devices for those with disabilities and applying for pauper burial when need arises.
  • Adult Services:
  • Completing Needs Assessments and Care Planning Completing safeguarding enquiries
  • Direct work with adults.
  • Multi-agency working.
  • Providing assistive devices for people in need and those living with disabilities.
  • Providing Food assistance to clients severely affected by drought Health assistance (Assistance Medical treatment orders for adults incapacitated to afford medical bills)
  • Providing counseling and psychotherapy to individuals or groups with mental health conditions such as depression, stress, and anxiety.
  • Assisting individuals with mental health conditions in their journey towards recovery.
  • Preparing for workshops, training, and support groups to educate individuals, families, and communities about mental health issues, prevention, and early intervention strategies.
  • Promoting people's independence and well-being, through personalized care and support that focuses on their strengths and the outcomes they want to achieve.

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