community social worker
Community social workers help people in disadvantage or excluded from society to change their situation and handle their integration problems. They work with communities focusing on specific groups. Community social workers liaise closely with social workers, schools, local authorities and probation officers representing people before policy makers at local and national level.
Also called: neighbourhood worker, community outreach worker, community support worker, housing social worker, community welfare social worker, outreach worker, neighbourhood outreach worker, senior community worker
- 68
- essential skills
- 12
- optional skills
- 8
- related roles
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Where you can go from here
8 rolesOccupations sharing the most essential skills with this one. The number is a count, not an opinion.
- homelessness workerWhat changes?63 skills in common
- community development social worker62 skills in common
- consultant social worker62 skills in common
- gerontology social worker62 skills in common
- mental health social workerWhat changes?62 skills in common
- military welfare worker62 skills in common
- rehabilitation support workerWhat changes?62 skills in common
- youth worker62 skills in common
Essential skills
68- accept own accountability
- address problems critically
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- 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 organisational techniques
- apply person-centred care
- apply problem solving in social service
- apply quality standards in social services
- apply socially just working principles
- assess social service users' situation
- build community relations
- build helping relationship with social service users
- communicate professionally with colleagues in other fields
- communicate 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
- counselling methods
- deliver social services in diverse cultural communities
- demonstrate leadership in social service cases
- develop professional identity in social work
- develop professional network
- empower social service users
- evaluate older adults' ability to take care of themselves
- follow health and safety precautions in social care practices
- have computer literacy
- involve service users and carers in care planning
- legal requirements in the social sector
- listen actively
- maintain records of work with service users
- make legislation transparent for users of social services
- manage ethical issues within social services
- manage social crisis
- manage stress in the work place
- meet standards of practice in social services
- negotiate with social service stakeholders
- negotiate with social service users
- organise social work packages
- perform fundraising activities
- perform street interventions in social work
- plan social service process
- prevent social problems
- promote inclusion
- promote service users' rights
- promote social change
- protect vulnerable social service users
- provide community development services
- provide social counselling
- provide support to social services users
- raise awareness on local community's priorities
- refer social service users
- relate empathetically
- report on social development
- review social service plan
- social justice
- social sciences
- social work theory
- tolerate stress
- undertake continuous professional development in social work
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work within communities
Optional skills
12- adapt teaching to target group
- adult education
- assessment processes
- communication
- community education
- manage volunteers
- prepare youths for adulthood
- show consideration for student's situation
- support children's wellbeing
- support social service users to live at home
- teamwork principles
- write work-related reports
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