mental health support worker
Mental health support workers assist and provide treatment to people with mental, emotional, or substance abuse problems. They focus on personalised cases and monitor the recovery process of their clients, providing also therapy, crisis intervention, client advocacy and education.
Also called: intensive support worker, mental health community outreach worker, mental health recovery worker, mental healthcare worker, re-ablement worker, mental health social care worker, mental health community development worker, mental healthcare support worker
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- essential skills
- 3
- 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.
- foster care support workerWhat changes?64 skills in common
- residential home young people care workerWhat changes?64 skills in common
- child day care worker63 skills in common
- child welfare workerWhat changes?63 skills in common
- residential childcare worker63 skills in common
- family support worker59 skills in common
- housing support worker59 skills in common
- residential home older adult care worker59 skills in common
Essential skills
65- accept own accountability
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- adolescent psychological development
- advocate for social service users
- 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
- assess the development of youth
- assist individuals with disabilities in community activities
- assist social service users in formulating complaints
- assist social service users with physical disabilities
- build helping relationship with social service users
- communicate professionally with colleagues in other fields
- communicate with social service users
- company policies
- comply with legislation in social services
- conduct interview in social service
- contribute to protecting individuals from harm
- customer service
- deliver social services in diverse cultural communities
- demonstrate leadership in social service cases
- diagnose psychiatric symptoms
- encourage social service users to preserve their independence in their daily activities
- follow health and safety precautions in social care practices
- involve service users and carers in care planning
- legal requirements in the social sector
- listen actively
- maintain privacy of service users
- maintain records of work with service users
- maintain the trust of service users
- manage social crisis
- manage stress in the work place
- meet standards of practice in social services
- monitor service users' health
- prepare youths for adulthood
- prevent social problems
- promote inclusion
- promote service users' rights
- promote social change
- promote the safeguarding of young people
- protect vulnerable social service users
- provide social counselling
- refer service users to community resources
- relate empathetically
- report on social development
- review social service plan
- social justice
- social sciences
- support harmed social service users
- support service users in developing skills
- support service users to use technological aids
- support social service users in skills management
- support social service users with specific communication needs
- support social service users' positiveness
- support the positiveness of youths
- tolerate stress
- undertake continuous professional development in social work
- undertake risk assessment of social service users
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work within communities
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