social worker
ISCO: 2635. Skills: 258. Essential: 62.
Essential skills
- accept own accountability
- address problems critically
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- 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 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 professionally with colleagues in other fields
- communicate with social service users
- company policies
- 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
- develop professional network
- 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
- listen actively
- maintain records of work with service users
- make legislation transparent for users of social services
- manage ethical issues within social services
- manage social crisis
- manage stress in the work place
- 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
- protect vulnerable social service users
- provide social counselling
- provide support to social services users
- refer social service users
- relate empathetically
- report on social development
- review social service plan
- social justice
- social sciences
- social work theory
- tolerate stress
- undertake continuous professional development in social work
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work within communities
Supporting skills
- act discreetly
- adapt teaching to target group
- address public health issues
- adolescent psychological development
- adult education
- advise on conflict management
- advise on mental health
- advise on social enterprise
- advise on social security benefits
- advise on training courses
- advocate for healthcare users' needs
- analyse call performance trends
- apply foreign languages in social services
- apply intercultural teaching strategies
- apply knowledge of human behaviour
- apply scientific methods
- apply teaching strategies
- arrange in-home services for patients
- assess clients' drug and alcohol addictions
- assess offenders' risk behaviour
- assess social work students
- assess students
- assess the development of youth
- assessment processes
- assist children with special needs in education settings
- assist families in crisis situations
- assist in the organisation of school events
- assist students in their learning
- assist students with equipment
- assist students with their dissertation
- assist the homeless
- assist with funeral planning
- behavioural disorders
- build community relations
- carry out social work research
- child protection
- client-centred counselling
- clinical social work
- communicate about youth's well-being
- communicate by telephone
- communicate by use of interpretation services
- communicate with youth
- communication
- community education
- compile course material
- comply with legislation related to health care
- conduct field work
- conduct qualitative research
- conduct quantitative research
- conduct scholarly research
- consult student's support system
- consultation
- cooperate with education professionals
- counsel on end-of-life care
- counsel students
- counselling methods
- court procedures
- crime victims' needs
- crime victims' rights
- criminal law
- crisis intervention
- curriculum objectives
- demonstrate when teaching
- dependency on drugs
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- develop course outline
- develop learning curriculum
- develop social security programmes
- developmental psychology
- diagnosis of mental health issues
- disability care
- disability types
- discuss research proposals
- education law
- employment law
- empower individuals, families and groups
- engage with offenders
- establish collaborative relations
- evaluate older adults' ability to take care of themselves
- facilitate teamwork between students
- family law
- funding methods
- geriatrics
- give constructive feedback
- government social security programmes
- guarantee students' safety
- handle humanitarian response programs
- health care system
- help clients cope with grief
- humanitarian aid actors
- identify mental health issues
- identify skills gaps
- illegal substances
- immigration law
- implement scientific decision making in healthcare
- inform on the risks of substance and alcohol abuse
- job market offers
- keep records of attendance
- learning difficulties
- learning needs analysis
- legal compensation for victims of crime
- liaise with educational staff
- liaise with educational support staff
- maintain privacy of service users
- maintain records of phone calls
- maintain telephony system
- manage a social work unit
- manage resources for educational purposes
- manage volunteers
- migration
- monitor developments in field of expertise
- monitor educational developments
- monitor student's behaviour
- older adults' needs
- oversee extra-curricular activities
- palliative care
- participate in scientific colloquia
- pedagogy
- perform classroom management
- perform educational testing
- perform fundraising activities
- perform playground surveillance
- perform street interventions in social work
- personal development
- personality development theories
- plan youth activities
- prepare lesson content
- prepare youths for adulthood
- present reports
- primary school procedures
- promote human rights
- promote mental health
- promote social security programmes
- promote the safeguarding of young people
- promote youth work in the local community
- provide career counselling
- provide community development services
- provide domestic care
- provide immigration advice
- provide information on school services
- provide lesson materials
- provide social guidance over the phone
- provide technical expertise
- provide testimony in court hearings
- provide victim assistance
- psychological counselling methods
- psychological effects of war
- public housing legislation
- publish academic research
- raise awareness on local community's priorities
- rehabilitation
- restorative justice
- school psychology
- scientific research methodology
- secondary school procedures
- serve on academic committee
- show consideration for student's situation
- social entreprise
- social mediation
- social pedagogy
- social security law
- special needs education
- stages of bereavement
- strategies for handling cases of elder abuse
- strategies for handling cases of sexual assault
- supervise doctoral students
- supervise educational staff
- supervise staff
- supervise students in social services
- supervision of persons
- support children's wellbeing
- support individuals to adjust to physical disability
- support juvenile victims
- support migrants to integrate in the receiving country
- 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
- support victims of human rights violations
- support volunteers
- tackle issues that block academic progress
- teach principles of social work
- teamwork principles
- therapy in health care
- university procedures
- use clinical assessment techniques
- use computer telephony integration
- work for public inclusion
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
- work on the effects of abuse
- work with healthcare users' social network
- work with patterns of psychological behaviour
- work with social service users in a group
- work with virtual learning environments
- write work-related reports