Special Care Workers

What the job involves

• Planning and implementing programs of supervision and care for children in residential care

• Supervising and arranging activities to enhance the physical, social, emotional and intellectual development of children in residential care

• Waking children and ensuring they are washed, dressed, fed and ready for educational and recreational activities

• Supervising children during domestic activities such as eating meals and showering

• Maintaining discipline, enforcing regulations and behaviour standards, compiling disciplinary reports and assisting in implementing remedial measures

• Organising refuge accommodation

• Providing emotional support to residents of refuges

• Referring residents of refuges for health and welfare assistance

• Ensuring security of refuge