gerontology social worker
Gerontology social workers provide assistance to elderly individuals and their families helping them to cope with their biopsychosocial needs. They help connecting the elderly with community resources by gathering information about the array of services available to them. Gerontology social workers assess their clients' needs, functional capacity and health problems and liaise with medical professionals when necessary.
Also called: geriatric social worker, older adults community care social worker, older adults social worker, gerontological social worker, social care gerontologist, social worker, social work gerontologist, seniors social worker
- 65
- essential skills
- 12
- optional skills
- 8
- related roles
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- ISCO-08 group
Where you can go from here
8 rolesOccupations sharing the most essential skills with this one. The number is a count, not an opinion.
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- military welfare workerWhat changes?63 skills in common
- palliative care social worker63 skills in common
- community care case worker62 skills in common
- community social worker62 skills in common
- rehabilitation support worker62 skills in common
- migrant social worker61 skills in common
Essential skills
65- 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 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
- 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
- geriatrics
- 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
- older adults' needs
- organise social work packages
- plan social service process
- prevent social problems
- promote inclusion
- promote service users' rights
- promote social change
- protect vulnerable social service users
- provide social counselling
- provide support to social services users
- refer social service users
- relate empathetically
- report on social development
- review social service plan
- social justice
- social sciences
- social work theory
- strategies for handling cases of elder abuse
- tolerate stress
- undertake continuous professional development in social work
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work within communities
Optional skills
12- advise on mental health
- clinical social work
- counsel on end-of-life care
- disability care
- disability types
- help clients cope with grief
- identify mental health issues
- palliative care
- promote mental health
- stages of bereavement
- support social service users at the end of life
- support social service users to live at home
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