Social Worker
Social Worker
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Job Description
Social workers are practice-based professionals who promote social change and development, social cohesion, and the empowerment and liberation of people. They interact with individuals, families, groups, organisations and communities in order to provide various forms of therapy and counselling, group work, and community work. Social workers guide people to use services to claim benefits, access community resources, find jobs and training, obtain legal advice or deal with other local authority departments..
Top 34 specific things you need to know
As a Social Worker, you will need to master following:
- accept own accountability
- advocate for social service users
- apply anti-oppressive practices
- apply case management
- apply crisis intervention
- apply decision making within social work
- apply holistic approach within social services
- apply person-centred care
- apply problem solving in social service
- apply quality standards in social services
- assess social service users' situation
- build helping relationship with social service users
- company policies
- conduct interview in social service
- consider social impact of actions on service users
- contribute to protecting individuals from harm
- cooperate at inter-professional level
- deliver social services in diverse cultural communities
- demonstrate leadership in social service cases
- develop professional identity in social work
- empower social service users
- follow health and safety precautions in social care practices
- maintain records of work with service users
- make legislation transparent for users of social services
- meet standards of practice in social services
- negotiate with social service users
- organise social work packages
- prevent social problems
- promote inclusion
- promote service users' rights
- protect vulnerable social service users
- refer social service users
- review social service plan
- tolerate stress
Top 27 general things you need to know
More generally, a social worker is also versed in:
- address problems critically
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- apply organisational techniques
- apply socially just working principles
- communicate professionally with colleagues in other fields
- communicate with social service users
- develop professional network
- have computer literacy
- involve service users and carers in care planning
- legal requirements in the social sector
- listen actively
- manage ethical issues within social services
- manage social crisis
- manage stress in organisation
- negotiate with social service stakeholders
- plan social service process
- promote social change
- provide social counselling
- provide support to social services users
- relate empathetically
- report on social development
- social justice
- social sciences
- social work theory
- undertake continuous professional development in social work
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work within communities
Other things it helps to know to be an excellent social worker
It also helps to know the following:
- act discreetly
- advise on mental health
- advise on social enterprise
- advocate for healthcare users' needs
- arrange in-home services for patients
- assess clients' drug and alcohol addictions
- assess social work students
- assess the development of youth
- assist children with special needs in education settings
- assist families in crisis situations
- assist students with their dissertation
- assist the homeless
- carry out social work research
- client-centred counselling
- communicate by use of interpretation services
- counsel on end-of-life care
- diagnosis of mental health issues
- disability care
- empower individuals, families and groups
- engage with offenders
- facilitate teamwork between students
- help clients cope with grief
- identify mental health issues
- identify skills gaps
- inform on the risks of substance and alcohol abuse
- legal compensation for victims of crime
- maintain records of phone calls
- maintain telephony system
- manage a social work unit
- manage resources for educational purposes
- manage volunteers
- palliative care
- perform street interventions in social work
- plan youth activities
- promote mental health
- provide domestic care
- psychological effects of war
- serve on academic committee
- social entreprise
- social mediation
- stages of bereavement
- strategies for handling cases of elder abuse
- strategies for handling cases of sexual assault
- supervise doctoral students
- supervise educational staff
- supervise students in social services
- support individuals to adjust to physical disability
- support social service users at the end of life
- support traumatised children
- therapy in health care
- university procedures
- use clinical assessment techniques
- use computer telephony integration
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
- work on the effects of abuse
- work with healthcare users' social network
- work with patterns of psychological behaviour
- work with social service users in a group
- adapt teaching to target group
- address public health issues
- adolescent psychological development
- adult education
- advise on conflict management
- advise on social security benefits
- advise on training courses
- analyse call performance trends
- apply foreign languages in social services
- apply intercultural teaching strategies
- apply knowledge of human behaviour
- apply scientific methods
- apply teaching strategies
- assess offenders' risk behaviour
- assess students
- assessment processes
- assist in the organisation of school events
- assist students in their learning
- assist students with equipment
- assist with funeral planning
- behavioural disorders
- build community relations
- child protection
- communicate about youth's well-being
- communicate by telephone
- communicate with youth
- communication
- community education
- compile course material
- comply with legislation related to health care
- conduct field work
- conduct qualitative research
- conduct quantitative research
- conduct scholarly research
- consult student's support system
- consultation
- cooperate with education professionals
- counsel students
- counselling methods
- court procedures
- crime victims' needs
- crime victims' rights
- criminal law
- crisis intervention
- curriculum objectives
- demonstrate when teaching
- dependency on drugs
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- develop course outline
- develop curriculum
- develop social security programmes
- developmental psychology
- disability types
- discuss research proposals
- education law
- employment law
- establish collaborative relations
- evaluate older adults' ability to take care of themselves
- family law
- funding methods
- geriatrics
- give constructive feedback
- government social security programmes
- guarantee students' safety
- handle humanitarian response programs
- health care system
- humanitarian aid actors
- illegal substances
- immigration law
- implement scientific decision making in healthcare
- job market offers
- keep records of attendance
- learning difficulties
- learning needs analysis
- liaise with educational staff
- liaise with educational support staff
- maintain privacy of service users
- migration
- monitor developments in field of expertise
- monitor educational developments
- monitor student's behaviour
- older adults' needs
- oversee extra-curricular activities
- participate in scientific colloquia
- pedagogy
- perform classroom management
- perform educational testing
- perform fundraising activities
- perform playground surveillance
- personal development
- personality development theories
- plan learning curriculum
- prepare lesson content
- prepare youths for adulthood
- present reports
- primary school procedures
- promote human rights
- promote social security programmes
- promote the safeguarding of young people
- promote youth work in the local community
- provide career counselling
- provide community development services
- provide immigration advice
- provide information on school services
- provide lesson materials
- provide social guidance over the phone
- provide technical expertise
- provide testimony in court hearings
- provide victim assistance
- psychological counselling methods
- public housing legislation
- publish academic research
- raise awareness on local community's priorities
- rehabilitation
- restorative justice
- school psychology
- scientific research methodology
- secondary school procedures
- show consideration for student's situation
- social pedagogy
- social security law
- special needs education
- supervise staff
- supervision of persons
- support children's wellbeing
- support juvenile victims
- support migrants to integrate in the receiving country
- support social service users to live at home
- support social service users to manage their financial affairs
- support the positiveness of youths
- support victims of human rights violations
- support volunteers
- tackle issues that block academic progress
- teach principles of social work
- teamwork principles
- work for public inclusion
- work with virtual learning environments
- write work-related reports
Top employers for this job
Social Worker (0-2 Yrs Exp.)
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Prereqs Technology Pvt.Ltd
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California
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$250 - $800 / month
Full Time
Urgent
Private
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