Siphokazi Ndoni
Maribyrnong,Australia
Summary
- Social Work England Registration Number: SW129971 - 9+ years post qualification experience - Extensive experience in rendering psycho-social services to vulnerable children and youth - Extensive experience in rendering statutory services to children in need of care and protection (Conducting investigations of allegations of child abuse, child neglect and risk assessment) - Extensive experience in compiling statutory reports and executing court work -Experienced in Providing care, support and protection to vulnerable children, families and poverty stricken groups - Experience in working with individuals living with disability and families with people living with disabilities - Able to apply statutory guidelines and procedures in the protection of vulnerable children and youth - Knowledgeable and experienced in working within diverse communities in terms of culture, ethnicity, and religion - Extensive knowledge of the social work policies and application of the relevant legislation relating to Children in need of care and protection - Knowledgeable on the International legal framework pertaining to child protection - Extensive experience on the social work theories and application - Knowledgeable and experienced in conducting field research using relevant research methods - Experienced in working in partnership and within a multi-disciplinary environment
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Advanced Child Protection Practitioner (CPP4)
Department of Families Fairness and Housing
Footscray, Australia
03.2024 - Current
- Risk assessment and analysis - gathers information through a variety of sources and technologies to identify, articulate, and plan for the risks relating to each situation
- Applies a strong forensic lens, and professional judgement, to analyse the available evidence
- Case planning review and case management - draws insights from assessment and analysis to formulate a meaningful and effective case plan, and reviews case progress and outcomes
- Co-ordinates and leads the planning, review, and management of casework within DFFH and across other agencies and services
- Critical enquiry - uses evidence-based frameworks to investigate issues and is able to understand the root cause of each issue as well as the potential implications
- Standardised reporting - uses standardised reporting frameworks when recording case data, and when documenting care solutions provided
- Reflective practice - critically reflects on what they are doing in their role and uses this reflection to influence their practice
- Child centred and family focused relationship-based practice - focuses on the child and incorporates the family and social network, to deliver timely and proactive solutions
- Collaboration - engages, consults, and co-designs solutions with children and their families, other practitioners and teams, agencies, services, and the community, in order to deliver the best outcomes for children and their families
- Knowledge sharing - exchanging critical information across the system, both internally and externally, to ensure shared understanding, and timely and appropriate action for clients
- Problem solving - integrates knowledge and internal insight with leading practice and research to address problems
- Culturally informed practice and safety - understands and applies culturally informed practice that is focused on the child in the context of their family, in a way that considers situations, activities, decisions, and outcomes from the perspective of each stakeholder’s cultural background
- Business operations - effectively uses business technology, systems, procedures, and financial and political nous, to achieve the best outcome(s) for clients
- Evaluating and delivering program improvements - works with colleagues and key stakeholder to evaluate programs, identify opportunities, develop solutions, and identify and overcome barriers to continuously improve program outcomes
- Packaging of support - can effectively plan for the purchasing of services, manage budgets, and allocate finances, to achieve the best outcome(s)
- Practice leadership - leads children, families, and stakeholders through child protection assessment and decision making in an open, informed, proactive, and assertive manner
- Collective leadership - demonstrates how to team with colleagues, in order to provide staff with a deeper meaning and value, as well as a strong leadership team
- Developing others - Coaches, guides, and shares knowledge with colleagues to encourage learning and reflection
- System leadership - drives relationships and effective working within DFFH and across other systems, to create a shared purpose, improve standards, and challenge the status quo
Social worker – Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub
London Borough of Redbridge
07.2023 - 12.2023
- To undertake a range of children and families and safeguarding assessments
- To undertake assessments in accordance with central government and local guidelines and where appropriate prepare, present and implement plans for work with children and their families based on such assessments
- To support children and their families so that children will be maintained in a safe environment within the family network
- To be accountable for your practice and involve individuals, families, carers, groups and communities in decision making, offering them choices, options and linking them to support groups and networks
- To help individuals, families, carers, groups and communities represent their views in all meetings affecting them and work effectively with other to improve services offered to them
- To have particular regard to all safeguarding issues and to ensure that they are raised appropriately through professional and managerial channels
- Draw on a range of evidence sources to inform decision making
- Ensure hypotheses and options are reviewed to inform judgment and decision making
- Ensure that you evidence that you routinely consult with service users and accurately capture their wishes and feelings
Social worker (Referral and Assessment/Family Assessment team)
London Borough of Croydon
Croydon, United Kingdom
09.2020 - 07.2023
- Company Overview: Programme: Children’s Social Care – Child Protection Services
- Render psychosocial support to children, young people and families with safeguarding concerns
- Complete investigations following reports of children believed to be at significant risk of harm (S47 and S17)
- Compile in-depth Child and Family Assessments
- Formulate care plans and implement Child In Need plans and hold review meetings with professional network and families
- Attend Strategy Discussion Meeting, present cases for children judged to be at significant risk of harm
- Undertake administrative tasks and up-to-date recordings
- Attend and present cases on Adolescent panels and address issues impacting the vulnerable groups
- Complete safety planning together with families experiencing violence and substance misuse
- Undertake assessments and joint visits with domestic violence and substance misuse specialists to families at risk
- Provide psycho-social support to families affected by mental health concerns, complete safety planning and signpost/refer to the relevant service for additional support
- Undertake in-depth child protection services including attending Initial Child Protection Conferences and initiating family group meetings
- Programme: Children’s Social Care – Child Protection Services
Social worker
Department of Social Development
Somerset East, South Africa
07.2017 - 08.2019
- Company Overview: Programme: Child protection services
- Case Intakes (receiving child protection cases and investigation of children’s circumstances)
- Rendering psycho-social services to vulnerable children and victims of abuse
- Rendering psycho-social services to children with behavioural problems
- Providing care, support and protection of vulnerable individuals, groups, families, poverty stricken groups and communities
- Conducting risk assessments to ascertain the safety and wellbeing of children reported to be vulnerable
- Initialising and finalising children’s court enquiries for children in need of care and protection in terms of the Children’s Act 38 of 2005
- Processing and assessing foster care placements, conducting home and school visits to investigate the circumstances of children reported to be in need of care and protection
- Designing care plans and individual development plans for children in need of care and protection
- Assessing, screening and training prospective foster parents
- Supervising and providing support to foster care families
- Reviewing foster care placements and applying for extension orders in the Children’s court if it is in the bests interests of the child
- Tracing extended family members of abandoned and neglected children
- Conducting and facilitate family reunification services and programmes
- Implementation of parenting skills programmes
- Investigating allegations of abuse, compiling Children’s Court Inquiry (CCI) reports
- Removal of abused and vulnerable children with or without a court order and placement in places of safety in line with the Children’s Act 38 of 2005
- Attending case conferences
- Referring cases (when necessary) to specialised or relevant departments
- Investigating the misuse of the child support grant and assessing vulnerable children and families for social relief of distress in the form of school uniform and food parcels
- Conducting community awareness campaigns on the protection of children against abuse and promoting children’s rights
- Implementation of adoption services and render adoption services
- Conduct on-site monitoring visits to funded ECDS’s and CBO’s
- Liaising and working in partnership with other agencies and organisations
- Supervising Student Social workers and capacitating newly employed Social workers
- Performing all administrative functions required within the role
- Supervising, monitoring and providing support to Careworkers at a Victim Empowerment Programme Centre known as Lukhanyisa White Door of Hope that provides services to victims of crimes
- Monitoring, supervising and providing support to Early Childhood Development Centres
- Programme: Child protection services
Social worker
Department of Social Development
Port Elizabeth, South Africa
01.2014 - 06.2017
- Company Overview: Programme: Child protection services
- Case Intakes (receiving child protection cases and investigation of children’s circumstances)
- Rendering psycho-social services to vulnerable children and victims of abuse
- Rendering psycho-social services to children with behavioural problems
- Providing care, support and protection of vulnerable individuals, groups, families, poverty stricken groups and communities
- Conducting risk assessments to ascertain the safety and wellbeing of children reported to be vulnerable
- Initialising and finalising children’s court enquiries for children in need of care and protection in terms of the Children’s Act 38 of 2005
- Processing and assessing foster care placements, conducting home and school visits to investigate the circumstances of children reported to be in need of care and protection
- Designing care plans and individual development plans for children in need of care and protection
- Assessing, screening and training prospective foster parents
- Supervising and providing support to foster care families
- Reviewing foster care placements and applying for extension orders in the Children’s court if it is in the bests interests of the child
- Tracing extended family members of abandoned and neglected children
- Conducting family reunification services
- Investigating allegations of abuse, compiling Children’s Court Inquiry (CCI) reports
- Removal of abused and vulnerable children with or without a court order and placement in places of safety in line with the Children’s Act 38 of 2005
- Attending case conferences
- Referring cases (when necessary) to specialised or relevant departments
- Investigating the misuse of the child support grant and assessing vulnerable children and families for social relief of distress in the form of school uniform and food parcels
- Conducting community awareness campaigns on the protection of children against abuse and promoting children’s rights
- Liaising and working in partnership with other agencies and organisations
- Supervising Student Social workers and capacitating newly employed Social workers
- Performing all administrative functions required for the Job
- Programme: Child protection services
Student Residential Social Worker
Nazareth House Frail Care
Port Elizabeth, South Africa
07.2012 - 11.2012
- Casework- conduct individual counselling sessions to the elderly residents in the home
- Group Work- Facilitate therapeutic and support groups for the residents
- Provide psycho-social support to individuals diagnosed with Dementia and Alzheimer’s
- Community work- conduct needs assessments, programme planning, programme facilitation, conduct awareness programmes and dialogues amongst the residents
- To administer and ensure recreational facilities for the elderly
- Perform all the administrative required for the function
Student Social Worker
NICRO (National Institute for Crime Prevention and reintegration of offenders)
Port Elizabeth, South Africa
07.2011 - 11.2011
- Casework – conducting Individual counselling sessions with victims of Domestic Violence
- Group Work- Facilitating therapeutic group work sessions with perpetrators of intimate partner violence
- Facilitating Therapeutic group sessions with the inmates of St Albans Correctional services
- Community work- Full responsibility for programme planning, development, management and successful execution
- Perform all administrative functions required for the Job
Student Social Worker
Department of Education: Loyiso High School
Port Elizabeth, South Africa
04.2010 - 05.2010
- Casework – conducting Individual counselling sessions with the students within the school setting
- Group Work- Facilitating therapeutic group work sessions with the student at the high school
- Perform all administrative functions required for the role
Education
Bachelor of Social Work -
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan university
Port Elizabeth, South Africa01.2012
National Senior Certificate (NCS) - Accounting, Economics, Business Studies, Life Orientation, Mathematical Literacy, English, IsiXhosa
Johnson Nqonqoza Senior Secondary School
South Africa01.2008
Skills
- Administration skills
- Planning and project management skills
- Presentation and facilitation skills
- Ability to work under pressure
- Teamwork
- Effective communication skills
- Interpersonal skills
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Word
- Internet
- Microsoft Teams
- First Aid & CPR
References
Available upon request
Registration
SW129971, 3034563A-01
Timeline
Advanced Child Protection Practitioner (CPP4)
Department of Families Fairness and Housing
03.2024 - Current
Social worker – Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub
London Borough of Redbridge
07.2023 - 12.2023
Social worker (Referral and Assessment/Family Assessment team)
London Borough of Croydon
09.2020 - 07.2023
Social worker
Department of Social Development
07.2017 - 08.2019
Social worker
Department of Social Development
01.2014 - 06.2017
Student Residential Social Worker
Nazareth House Frail Care
07.2012 - 11.2012
Student Social Worker
NICRO (National Institute for Crime Prevention and reintegration of offenders)
07.2011 - 11.2011
Student Social Worker
Department of Education: Loyiso High School
04.2010 - 05.2010
Bachelor of Social Work -
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan university
National Senior Certificate (NCS) - Accounting, Economics, Business Studies, Life Orientation, Mathematical Literacy, English, IsiXhosa
Johnson Nqonqoza Senior Secondary School