RITA ADJEI

C/O DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WELFARE

P. O. BOX 66, KUMASI-GHANA

Mobile: +233-*********

Email: ad4r6h@r.postjobfree.com

PERSONAL PROFILE

I am a hardworking and motivated social worker with strong technical skills as well as excellent interpersonal skills enabling me to interact with a wide range of clients.

CAREER OBJECTIVES

To maximize the development of human potential and the fulfillment of human needs through an equal commitment to work with and enable people to achieve the best possible levels of personal and social well-being and also to achieve social justice through social development and social change.

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Marital status: Married

Nationality: Ghanaian

Religion: Christian

Fluency: English language/ Akan (Twi)

SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

Case management

Report Writing

Counseling

Communication

Good Interpersonal Relationship

Leadership and Decision Making

Organization and Management

Collaboration

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUD

2019-PRESENT Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)

Qualification: Master of Arts, Social Work

2010-2014 University of Ghana

Qualification: Bachelor of Arts, Information Studies and History

2003-2005 School of Social Work (Osu-Accra)

Qualification: Diploma in Social Work

2000-2002 Ghana Secondary School (Koforidua-Ghana)

Qualification: Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination

WORKING EXPERIENCE

2011-Date: Department of Social Welfare, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) unit

Grade: Assistant Director

Position: Unit Head

Job schedules:

Supervision of staff to ensure the performance of unit function

Writing and submitting quarterly and annual reports to the regional directorate

Liaise with other institutions to get support and temporary shelter for abandoned babies and destitute

Ensure proper and effective management of the core objectives of medical social work

Undertake other jobs assigned by the regional director

develop plans for moving the program and project towards the department

2008-2011: Kwabre East District Assembly

Grade: Assistant Social Development Officer

Job schedules:

Registered persons with disabilities (PWDs)

Handled maintenance, paternity, custody and family welfare cases

Registered community based organizations

Served as social worker for the district hospital

2006-2008: Amansie Central District Assembly

Grade: Social Development Assistance

Job schedules:

served as probation officer at the district court

Handled maintenance, paternity, custody and family welfare cases

Monitored Daycare centres within the district

Registered community based organizations within the district

2005-2006: 37 Military Hospital, Accra-Ghana

Grade: National Service

TRAININGS ATTENDED

Social Welfare Information Management System (SWIMS)

Inter-sectorial Standard Operating procedures for Child Protection and Family Welfare

Civil Service Scheme of Service Competencies Training

Psychotherapeutic Counseling Skills, Department of Sociology and Social Work, KNUST

International Organization for Migration (IOM), Ethiopia, Human Trafficking in Africa

INTERESTS

Case management

Social interest to help people

Learning new things

Cooking

Caring for children

REFEREES

Mr. Patrick Nawah

Regional Director,

Department of Social Welfare

Ashanti Region, Ghana

Mr. Thomas Owusu Antwi

District Head

Department of Social Welfare

Amansie Central-Ashanti Region

Ghana

Agnes Boakyewaa

Programme Head

Justice Administration

Department of Social Welfare

Ghana

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