Social Auxiliary Worker: Pic (posts Available In Metro South), Ref No. Dsd 108/2026

Minimum Requirements

• Grade 1: Grade 10 plus completion of the SAW learnership to allow registration with the South African Council for Social Service Professions (SACSSP) as Social Auxiliary Worker; Registration with the SACSSP as Social Auxiliary Worker.

Key Performance Areas

• Provide assistance and support to social workers with the rendering of a social work service with regard to the care, support, protection and development of vulnerable individuals, groups, families and communities through the relevant departmental programmes;
• Assist social workers to attend to any other matters that could result in, or stem from, social instability in any form;
• Continuous professional development; Perform administrative support functions in support of social workers as required of the job.

Competencies

• Knowledge and basic understanding of the following: Human behaviour, relationship system and social issues; South African Social Welfare context the policy and practice of developmental social welfare services; South African judicial system and the legislation governing and impacting of social auxiliary work;
• Implement appropriate social auxiliary work methods and techniques to address the social needs of client systems; Basic knowledge of financial matters related to social auxiliary work; Uses appropriate resources in service delivery to client systems; Information and Knowledge Management (Keep precise records and compile accurate reports on social needs and social auxiliary work activities and file them appropriately); Protocol and professional ethics.
• Skills in the following: Good communication (written and verbal); Proven computer literacy; Organising and planning; Presentation and facilitation; Report writing; Problem solving and analytical; Client orientation and customer focus; Work effectively with social workers and members of multi-sectoral teams in social service delivery.

Remuneration

• Grade 1: R 200 691 - Grade 3: R 353 016 per annum (as prescribed by OSD).
• Note on remuneration: Cost-to-employer (CTE) remuneration packages for certain occupation-specific dispensations (OSD), the middle-management service (MMS) and contract positions are inclusive of all costs related to service benefits or obligations including basic salary, 13th cheque, medical assistance, housing assistance, pension-fund contributions, etc.
• MMS remuneration packages are flexible and may be individually structured as prescribed. Where remuneration is not indicated as CTE, employees' service benefits or obligations are funded or co-funded in terms of the applicable prescripts or collective agreements.