Rodney Rikhotso

Experience

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  Limpopo department of Social Development

  Jun 2014 - May 2015

  SOCIAL WORKER

  ✓ Delivered social welfare services to children, youth, and families. ✓ Performed social work administrative tasks and participated in community outreach activities.✓ Provided counselling to individuals, families, and groups. Compiled professional reports to court for placement and reviews for children in foster care placement.✓ Monitored the foster care placements to ensure the best interest of children.

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  Bosasa Youth development Centre

  Oct 2015 - Oct 2019

  Social Worker

  ✓ Managed cases for children in conflict with the law and compiled progress reports for the magistrate courts.✓ Attended and influenced extensively to Multi-Disciplinary Team meetings and coordinated community awareness campaigns.✓ Engaged children and families in therapeutic sessions for rehabilitation purposes.✓ Facilitated group work programs, both educational and therapeutic.

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  Limpopo Department of Social Development

  Nov 2019 - Aug 2021

  Social Worker

  ✓ Rendered advanced and specialised social work services for care, protection and development of children and youth in conflict with the law. ✓ Provided pre- and post-court counselling and facilitated therapeutic group work sessions. ✓ Offered individual and group counselling to children and youth in conflict with the law. ✓ Led advanced and specialised assessments to identify conditions and justify relevant interventions. ✓ Implemented the recommendations on the appropriate intervention required to address the needs and provide continuous support. ✓ Produced and maintained records of social work interventions, processes, and outcomes. ✓ Undertook social work research and development, contributed to, and assisted with developing policies. ✓ Performed social work administrative functions (Keeping case and group files up-to-date and compiling reports to Magistrate courts). ✓ Managed the child and youth care information management system (CYCA). Conducted community work: Social crime prevention Campaigns. Show less

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  University of Galway

  Oct 2021 - Aug 2022

  International Student Ambassador

  ✓ Writing blogs and sharing creative videos on educational experiences in Ireland.

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  Education in Ireland

  Nov 2021 - Aug 2022

  Student Ambassador

  ✓ Writing blogs and sharing creative videos on educational experiences in Ireland.

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  Teagasc

  Apr 2022 - May 2022

  Intern-Researcher

  ✓ Performed research on diversity and inclusion metrics used by different corporate businesses and recommended the best practices to Teagasc for adoption.✓ Examined Gender and diversity proofing methodology for corporate business processes and documents to ensure equality in the organisation.✓ Analysed Teagasc diversity and inclusion calendar events activities for Teagasc to foster a more inclusive workplace and made recommendations.✓ Researched the best placement programs for students with disabilities that Teagasc could adopt. ✓ Attended a working group meeting on diversity and inclusion. Performed administrative tasks by consolidating working documents into Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. Show less

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  Devon County Council

  Dec 2022 - now

  1) To model, understand, maintain and apply a strengths-based approach to all practice. 2) To identify and empower others to use community and other natural sources of support, maximising individuals’ assets using preventative/universal services and other funding sources. 3) To identify potential enablement or reablement opportunities and provide access to these as necessary. 4) To identify and ensure an integrated agency and multi professional approach is used where appropriate to ensure that adults continue to live independent lives and maximise their choice and control. 5) To undertake complex assessments using a range of health and social care tools such as contributing to continuing healthcare assessments.6) To effectively apply the Mental Capacity Act 2005 to practice, including the application of principles, use of the two-stage test and Best Interest checklist. 7) To undertake safeguarding enquiries, make recommendations, and plan action in order to ensure that adults at risk of abuse or neglect are safeguarded, in accordance with statutory and local guidance, which will include undertaking enquiries where there may be institutional or ‘whole service’ abuse.8) To undertake and lead complex assessments and planning relating to legal frameworks i.e. Care Act assessment/care and support planning, Mental Capacity Act work and safeguarding enquiries. Show less 1) Modelled a restorative practice approach to build and maintain healthy-relationships, and bring about change with and alongside people rather than doing things to or for them. 2) identified community and other sources of support, maximising strengths within families and communities using preventative/universal services. 3) Confidently undertook interviews, observations and gather information from children, families and other agencies to analyse, summarise and evaluate the information to provide a holistic assessment of a child’s needs, balancing risk and protective factors. 4) Produced focused outcomes-based and purposeful care plans for interventions within the context of managing the needs of and risk to children.5) Used theories of child development, parenting capacity and family and environmental factors and used evidence based practice to establish the needs of individual children.6) Investigated cases where children have suffered or are likely to suffer significant harm and provide written and verbal reports which are concise, informative and based on analysis of complex evidence.7) Worked with families based on the basis of assessed needs and risks, to devise, implement and review care plans, including the development and management of child protection plans for all children who require them in line with child protection procedures. 8) Attended court as directed.9) Chairef multi agency meetings (e.g. Children in Need, core group,). Show less

  • Mental Health social worker

    Jul 2024 - now

  • Social Worker

    Dec 2022 - Jun 2024