social work assistant
ISCO: 3412. Skills: 52. Essential: 24.
Essential skills
- 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
Supporting skills
- adolescent psychological development
- apply crisis intervention
- apply holistic approach within social services
- assess clients' drug and alcohol addictions
- assist families in crisis situations
- client-centred counselling
- communicate by telephone
- communication
- community education
- comply with legislation related to health care
- conduct interview in social service
- consultation
- counselling methods
- crisis intervention
- develop professional identity in social work
- developmental psychology
- empower individuals, families and groups
- empower social service users
- engage with offenders
- give constructive feedback
- health care system
- identify mental health issues
- legal requirements in the social sector
- plan schedule
- promote inclusion
- social sciences
- social work theory
- use foreign languages in patient care