From social worker to child care social worker
53 of the 68 essential skills of a child care social worker are already essential for a social worker — about 78% of the job, before you learn anything new.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 53
- skills carry over
- 15
- would be new
- 78%
- of the target job covered
- 68
- essential skills of a child care social worker
What a child care social worker does
Child care social workers provide social services to children and their families in order to improve their social and psychological functioning. They aim to maximize family's well-being and protect children from abuse and neglect. They assist adoption arrangements and find foster homes where needed.
What carries over
53 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- accept own accountability
- 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 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 with social service users
- 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
- determine child welfare
- develop professional identity in social work
- empower social service users
- 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
- maintain records of work with service users
- make legislation transparent for users of social services
- manage ethical issues within social services
- manage social crisis
- meet standards of practice in social services
- negotiate with social service stakeholders
- negotiate with social service users
- organise social work packages
- plan social service process
- prevent social problems
- promote inclusion
- promote service users' rights
- promote social change
and 13 more
What would be new
15 skillsEssential for a child care social worker and not for a social worker. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- address problems critically
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- adolescent psychological development
- apply organisational techniques
- assess the development of youth
- communicate professionally with colleagues in other fields
- company policies
- develop professional network
- listen actively
- manage stress in the work place
- promote the safeguarding of young people
- support children's wellbeing
- support the positiveness of youths
- support traumatised children
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
Other moves from social worker
2 roles- benefits advice worker53 skills in common
- youth offending team worker52 skills in common
← social workerchild care social worker →The other way round
No account needed to start
How far are you from being a child care social 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.