Boitumelo Vincent Tlhareseng

National Senior Certificate

Kgosietsile Lethola High School - (2005 - 2007)

Matric 

Social work

Baccalaureus in Social Work - (2010 - 2013)

Employee Wellness Programme

IQ Academy - (2022 - 2022)

Public Management

National School of Government - (2017 - 2018)

Postgraduate Diploma in Public Health

Sefako Makhatho Health Sciences Universirty - (2023 - 2023)

Internship

Department of Education - (2013 - 2013)

Providing social work services in a school setting
To eradicate barriers that restricts learners to develop their full academic potential.
Social services including prevention and early intervention services.
Working within a multi–disciplinary team
Services include counseling, crisis intervention and prevention programs to address social issues faced by learners, both at home and school.
Providing school-based support programmes.
Refer learners to relevant service providers when necessary and follow up on referrals made.
Intervention focused on all methods of social work including casework, group work, community work, research, supervision and administration.

Generic Social Worker

Department of Social Development - (2014 - 2019)

Rendering of early intervention services, attend to any other matters that could result in, or stem from, social instability in any form.
Rendering designated child protection services aimed at monitoring and aftercare.
Compilation of statutory and non-statutory reports to be considered at Children’s Court
Report writing for Magistrate and Regional Court cases on request.
To ensure that social work services with regard to the care, support, protection and development of vulnerable individuals, groups, families, and communities through the relevant programmes is rendered.
Raising awareness through planned and facilitated community work projects, monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the projects. Plan, manage, coordinate and control the implementation of youth development programmes and projects to meet service delivery targets.
Identify need and provide concrete assistance to families infected and affected with HIV/AIDS, provide pre and post-test counseling, encourage adherence to medication and a healthy life style.
Monitoring and evaluation of implemented projects, working closely with NGOs, NPOs, FBOs, CSOs, ECDs and community development to intervene at a holistic approach.
Advocate for the community and individual clients, liaise with different stakeholders to maximize service delivery. Provide education and training to foster parents and children.
Completing and submitting monthly statistics, completing monitoring tools and updating of foster care database.
Experience in supervision of former pioneers (Masupatsela) and social workers, consolidation of monthly stats (monitoring tools, SWS forms and verification of source documents).
Liaise and co-operate with departmental units, all spheres of government in the public and private sector. Represent the department and the directorate both internally and externally.
Complete intakes of all new cases, analyze and interpret information and make recommendations for further services, provide statutory intervention services, perform crisis intervention with children, youth, adults and older persons.
Keep up to date with new developments in the social work field. Supervise all the administrative function required in the unit and undertake the higher level administrative functions.

Medical social worker, Acting social work supervsior

Department of Health - (2020 - Now)

To perform all medical social functions and render social work services. Work in a multidisciplinary team.   

• Conduct psycho-social assessments aimed at identifying individuals, groups and families and communities that justify relevant intervention. Refer and liaise with relevant departments for appropriate services.   

• Make follow ups, monitor and supervise patients after assessment. Knowledge of HIV/AIDS, pre and post counselling. Help patients and families navigate the process of illness and recovery.  

• Study, interpret, apply and give information on policies and legislation relation to social work. Keep up to date with the developments in the social work and social welfare field.  

• Perform all administrative functions required. Provide supervision to other social workers and HOD of the department. Control working hours, absenteeism and leave of absence.   

• Provide counselling and psychosocial support to staff members in need. Work hand in hand with office of the Health and Wellness in a hospital setting.   

• Establish good working relationship with internal and external stakeholders. Participate in the implementation of quality assurance policies and develop appropriate quality improvement plan for social work services.   

• Perform all ad-hoc duties allocated by the manager. Currently actively working with the vaccination team and the outreach. Providing support to sub district teams, assessing and making recommendations on the readiness of the sites.  

• Provide social work services to mental health care users and their families. Psycho-social assessment/screening of mental health care users and their families with regards to their socio-economic circumstances.   

• Conduct home visits to trace family members of patients admitted as unknown. Intervention through case work, group work and community work.  

• Locums for a private company that provides Employee Wellness Services by providing its clients with individual counselling, groups, families and presentations in the work place.  

EAP Practitioner

PHS Africa (Proactive Health Solutions) - (2021 - Now)

• Provide Employee Wellness Program Services to PHS Africa clients by providing with individual counseling, groups, families and presentations in the work place.

• Research information on employee wellness issues in order to keep abreast of latest developments in relation to ethical standards as maintained by the EAPASA council. 

• Drafting reports and recommendations to improve the employee’s wellness and submit to the supervisor or telephonic clinician responsible for the case. 

• Following up on referred cases to help solve variety of job related and personal problems such as HIV/AIDS, Financial problems, life style management, substance abuse, absenteeism, presenteeism, critical incident debriefing.