Médecins Sans Frontières , an international humanitarian medical association created in 1971, provides medical assistance to populations whose lives are threatened: mainly in the event of armed conflicts, but also epidemics, pandemics, natural disasters or even exclusion from care. The French section is present in around thirty countries.
As part of a replacement and an increase in activity, we are looking for a SOCIAL ASSISTANT in Ile de France in Pantin (93) M/F.
Context :
Since 2017 Médecins Sans Frontières has managed a Day Center in Pantin (93) for Unaccompanied Minors, and provides support through three areas of activity: socio-legal, somatic health and mental health.
This operational program is supplemented by an accommodation system, called “Passerelle” and located in Sevran (93), and a Mobile Clinic operating in Ile de France.
Main mission :
As part of a multidisciplinary team and under the responsibility of the Head of the Sociolegal Department, participate in the social/legal activities of the Ile de France project.
Carry out all activities involving social support to individual patients/survivors, including promoting their access to care and rights and providing referrals to other relevant support services and wider communities, in accordance with the principles and MSF guidelines. Improve the social condition of the target population.
Responsibilities:
• Identify the social needs of unaccompanied minors referred by the reception, somatic health, mental health and legal centers using a social assessment in individual interviews.
• Inform and guide young people to allow them access to basic needs (food distribution locations, shower baths, etc.) via collective information workshops or individual interviews. Ensure that information in different locations is up to date.
• Support unaccompanied minors in their procedures for accessing the law (domiciliation, AME) in collaboration with the socio-legal center attaché.
• Promote family ties for young people accompanied according to their needs (access to international telephone calls, collaboration with the Red Cross family links restoration services).
• Promote social ties and break the isolation of young people through activities within the Pantin center or referrals to partner associations offering educational, cultural and sporting activities.
• Find and offer any type of suitable accommodation (SIAO requests and other accommodation solution procedures).
• Participate in the identification of unaccompanied minors in vulnerable situations, and develop certificates/social notes supporting the social care needs of young people (requests for shelter, hearing before the Children’s Judge, etc.). ).
• Monitor the services offered (services, schedules, etc.), in particular by participating in association meetings linked to social support for unaccompanied minors.
• Identify and regularly update the list of social partners in order to improve the quality of guidance and support.
• Encourage reorientations towards identified social partners.
• Guarantee the confidentiality of information relating to young people and ensure their consent in the event of the need to share information.
• Record and update the data necessary for monitoring unaccompanied minors in the MSF database, according to the established protocol.
• Participate in weekly team meetings and nourish the multidisciplinary approach with the perspective of the social center and in close collaboration with the accommodation center.
• In collaboration with the multidisciplinary team: inform young people leaving the program about their rights and their future path via individual interviews or information workshops.
• Participate in data collection related to advocacy or internal reporting activities (Sitrep).
• Participate in the activities of the mission’s Mobile Clinic, for the reception and social orientation of people in precarious situations encountered (orientations, making appointments, etc.) and regularly updating orientations.
Required profile
Diploma required: State diploma of Social Worker, CES, Specialized Educator or Educator Monitor.
Experience :
Knowledge of social protection, child protection, foreigners’ rights, reception and care systems for unaccompanied minors.
Experience in interviews and social assessments with populations in precarious and vulnerable situations.
Experience with an audience of adolescents or young adults.
LANGUAGES :
French required. English desirable.
Skills and Abilities :
• Adaptability
• Sense of quality
• Sense of service
• Teamwork and cooperation
• Computer skills
• Rigor in file management
• Adherence to MSF principles
Status and schedules:
Fixed-term contract (CDD) 12 months, renewable.
Terms :
€2,877.04 gross monthly over 13 months. 22 days of RTT per year. Supplementary health care 100% covered by Médecins Sans Frontières. Restaurant vouchers with a face value of €11.00 (60% covered by MSF). 50% coverage of public transport fare or equivalent. Position to be filled as soon as possible.
How to apply
Please send your application (cover letter, CV and copy of diploma required)
by email on until March 15, 2024 inclusive with the following reference in subject:
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msff-france-recrutement@paris.msf.org