From social work assistant to youth offending team worker
24 of the 72 essential skills of a youth offending team worker are already essential for a social work assistant — about 33% of the job, before you learn anything new. It is the closest move from social work assistant in the whole taxonomy.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 24
- skills carry over
- 48
- would be new
- 33%
- of the target job covered
- 72
- essential skills of a youth offending team worker
What a youth offending team worker does
Youth offending team workers support young offenders by preventing them from reoffending, counselling them for behavioural changes, referring them to agencies that provide housing, helping them back into education, involving them in constructive activities, visiting them when located in secure institutions and assessing future risks.
What carries over
24 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- 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
- communicate professionally with colleagues in other fields
- communicate with social service users
- contribute to protecting individuals from harm
- deliver social services in diverse cultural communities
- follow health and safety precautions in social care practices
- listen actively
- maintain records of work with service users
- manage ethical issues within social services
- manage social crisis
- meet standards of practice in social services
- plan social service process
- prevent social problems
- promote service users' rights
- protect vulnerable social service users
- provide social counselling
- provide support to social services users
- relate empathetically
- review social service plan
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
What would be new
48 skillsEssential for a youth offending team worker and not for a social work assistant. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- accept own accountability
- address problems critically
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- adolescent psychological development
- 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 socially just working principles
- assess offenders' risk behaviour
- assess the development of youth
- child protection
- communicate with youth
- company policies
- conduct interview in social service
- consider social impact of actions on service users
- cooperate at inter-professional level
- demonstrate leadership in social service cases
- develop professional identity in social work
- develop professional network
- empower social service users
- engage with offenders
- have computer literacy
- involve service users and carers in care planning
- legal requirements in the social sector
- make legislation transparent for users of social services
- manage stress in the work place
- negotiate with social service stakeholders
- negotiate with social service users
- organise social work packages
- prepare youths for adulthood
- promote inclusion
- promote social change
- promote the safeguarding of young people
- provide testimony in court hearings
- refer social service users
- report on social development
and 8 more
Other moves from social work assistant
2 roles- clinical social worker24 skills in common
- mental health social worker24 skills in common
← social work assistantyouth offending team worker →The other way round
No account needed to start
How far are you from being a youth offending team worker?
MyNodes reads your CV once, maps it to this same taxonomy, and shows you which roles you are already closest to and the few skills that would open the most doors. The file is deleted as soon as it has been read.