Social Service Assistant; Children's Home

Job Role & Requirements

Working with girls, the successful candidate helps create and maintain a child‑centred, homelike therapeutic community that is responsive to residents' developmental needs, enabling them to grow holistically, work towards emotional stability, and develop their full potential.

• Carry out daily operational duties, such as supervising residents' routines (meals, school, chores, and attendance at programmes), maintaining up‑to‑date documentation, and ensuring the premises are kept clean.
• Participate in shift‑to‑shift communication, which includes completing daily documentation and providing important handover information to staff at the change of every shift.
• Assess and respond to crises or conflicts and escalate to the Residential Manager/Head of Home when needed.
• Participate in treatment/review meetings; familiarise yourself with the background, treatment plan and daily progress of all clients; and help implement their treatment plans.
• Be a mentor/role model for residents, and provide feedback to the Residential Manager and Social Worker on residents’ behaviours and compliance with activities in their treatment plan.

• 40 hours a week, 4‑day work week (able to work rotating shifts, including one weekend and public holidays)
• Candidate must be 21 years old and above (regulatory requirement)
• Working location: 9 Lorong 8 Toa Payoh, Good Shepherd Place, Singapore 319253
• Independent and a team player
• Only female applicants as this is a shelter home for female children

Remuneration package will be offered to the successful candidate according to relevant experience.