social care worker
Social care workers provide support and help people with care services. They help people to live full and valued lives in the community. They assist babies, young children, adolescents, adults and older adults.They attend to the psychological, social, emotional and physical needs of service users. They work in a large variety of settings with individuals, families, groups, organisations and communities.
Also called: senior care worker, care worker, social care assistant, community social care worker, senior social care worker
- 59
- essential skills
- 45
- 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.
- adult community care worker59 skills in common
- care home worker59 skills in common
- family support worker59 skills in common
- housing support worker59 skills in common
- mental health support workerWhat changes?59 skills in common
- residential home adult care worker59 skills in common
- residential home older adult care worker59 skills in common
- residential home young people care workerWhat changes?59 skills in common
Essential skills
59- accept own accountability
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- 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
- 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
- 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
- prevent social problems
- promote inclusion
- promote service users' rights
- promote social change
- 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
- 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
Optional skills
45- address public health issues
- adolescent psychological development
- advise on housing
- apply a holistic approach in care
- apply foreign languages in social services
- assess the development of youth
- assist children with special needs in education settings
- assist families in crisis situations
- assist with personal administration issues
- assist with self-medication
- child protection
- communicate by use of interpretation services
- communicate with youth
- conduct foster care visits
- contribute to the safeguarding of children
- determine child welfare
- disability care
- disability types
- distribute meals to patients
- evaluate older adults' ability to take care of themselves
- evaluate prospective foster parents
- family law
- handle children's problems
- implement care programmes for children
- maintain relations with children's parents
- monitor children's physical development
- older adults' needs
- perform cleaning duties
- plan social service process
- prepare youths for adulthood
- promote the safeguarding of young people
- provide first aid
- provide in-home support for disabled individuals
- provide social guidance over the phone
- provide testimony in court hearings
- supervise children
- support children's wellbeing
- support individuals to adjust to physical disability
- support social service users at the end of life
- support social service users to live at home
- support social service users to manage their financial affairs
- support the positiveness of youths
- support traumatised children
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- work with social service users in a group
Definition and skills from ESCO, published by the European Commission. Source concept
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