social care worker
ISCO: 3412. Skills: 104. Essential: 59.
Essential skills
- 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
Supporting skills
- 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