As a project worker, you will actively go into the neighborhood to support residents. You will work with them to gain insight into waste usage and associated costs, explain how the residual waste system works, and show what residents can do themselves to limit costs. You help residents gain an overview and think about solutions that fit their situation.
Sometimes this involves a small behavioral change; in other cases, you refer them to appropriate support, such as a consultation hour for financial matters or a neighborhood team.
What you do
- Visit residents at home, often together with an employee of a housing corporation
- Explain the residual waste system
- Explain what residents can do themselves to limit costs
- Help residents gain an overview
- Brainstorm solutions that fit their situation
- Refer to appropriate support, for example, a consultation hour for financial matters or a neighborhood team
- Provide information in the neighborhood
- Join meetings or organize moments to inform residents
- Think about how to better reach residents and what is needed for that
- Maintain an overview within the project
- Collect signals from practice and translate them into insights
- Come up with concrete results and recommendations to improve or continue the approach
Profile
You have an eye for broader signals such as financial concerns or other problems and lower the threshold for asking for help. You ensure that residents know where to go for assistance.
What they ask
- Demonstrably completed education at a minimum of HBO bachelor level in the field of Social Work, SJD
- Minimum 2 years of demonstrable work experience within the social domain
- Demonstrable knowledge of the social map
- Demonstrable work experience with various parties, including a public organization and housing corporations
Preferences.
- Minimum 4 years of demonstrable work experience within the social domain
- Minimum 2 years of demonstrable work experience within a public organization
- Demonstrable work experience with advising on waste usage
- Demonstrable work experience with conducting home visits
Competencies.
- Expressive skills (oral)
- Expressive skills (written)
- Customer-oriented
- Results-oriented work
- Decisiveness
- Organizing
- Analytical ability
- Planning
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