Social Worker

Job Summary 

As a Social Worker, he/she will lead community awareness efforts on Integrated Community Case Management (ICCM) and ensure access to healthcare services. This includes educating communities on disease prevention, facilitating patient referrals, coordinating doctor visits, and supporting follow-up care. The Social Worker will act as a liaison between healthcare providers and the community, improving health-seeking behaviors and reducing barriers to care.

Key Responsibilities

• Facilitate referrals for patients, ensuring they receive timely access to medical services by coordinating with doctors, healthcare providers, and referral networks.
• Organize and oversee community outreach programs, health education sessions, and awareness campaigns, engaging key community members to increase knowledge and adoption of healthy behaviors.
• Support patients and their families in navigating healthcare services, addressing barriers to care such as transportation, finances, and stigma.
• Coordinate doctor visits and mobile clinic schedules, ensuring patients requiring specialized care are attended to in a timely manner.
• Conduct home visits and follow-ups with patients to monitor treatment adherence, provide psychosocial support, and reinforce health messages.
• Establish and maintain strong relationships with local health workers, community leaders, and medical staff to enhance referral systems and community-based interventions.
• Keep detailed records of patient referrals, follow-ups, and community education efforts, ensuring proper documentation and data tracking.
• Advocate for vulnerable populations, including women, children, and individuals with chronic illnesses, to access necessary medical and social services.
• Other duties may be assigned that are not specifically identified within the content of the job description.

Skills Required

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Ability to acquire, build and maintain positive working relationships
• Ability to interact well with people of different educational, cultural, and socio-economic backgrounds
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in Arabic and English
• Excellent planning, organization, and problem-solving skills
• Attention to detail, anticipation and follow up are core values of the job function.
• Internally driven to success and hard work.
• Ability to be flexible and adaptable.
• Willingness to travel in and out of the field.
• Must have high level of integrity and stewardship
• Committed to the SP values and ethics

Education / Experience Needed

Nursing Bachelor degree (4 year) preferred.

Essential experience working in case management

Desirable 2 years of previous experience in other NGOs

Language 

• Kurmanji required
• Arabic desirable
• English desirable