social care worker (EN)
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Social care workers provide support and help people with care services. They help people to live full and valued lives in the community. They assist babies, young children, adolescents, adults and older adults.They attend to the psychological, social, emotional and physical needs of service users. They work in a large variety of settings with individuals, families, groups, organisations and communities.
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Source aliases (EN)
- senior care worker
- care worker
- social care assistant
- community social care worker
- senior social care worker
Skills and knowledge
Essential (EN) · 59
- support harmed social service users
- provide social counselling
- assist individuals with disabilities in community activities
- customer service
- involve service users and carers in care planning
- work within communities
- meet standards of practice in social services
- support social service users in skills management
- apply quality standards in social services
- apply problem solving in social service
- legal requirements in the social sector
- protect vulnerable social service users
- contribute to protecting individuals from harm
- monitor service users' health
- undertake risk assessment of social service users
- deliver social services in diverse cultural communities
- social sciences
- conduct interview in social service
- demonstrate leadership in social service cases
- communicate professionally with colleagues in other fields
- follow health and safety precautions in social care practices
- promote social change
- advocate for social service users
- prevent social problems
- support social service users' positiveness
- maintain privacy of service users
- support service users in developing skills
- promote service users' rights
- apply person-centred care
- encourage social service users to preserve their independence in their daily activities
- assess social service users' situation
- assist social service users with physical disabilities
- relate empathetically
- support service users to use technological aids
- listen actively
- manage social crisis
- review social service plan
- apply decision making within social work
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- apply holistic approach within social services
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- apply socially just working principles
- promote inclusion
- maintain records of work with service users
- report on social development
- undertake continuous professional development in social work
- tolerate stress
- refer service users to community resources
- apply organisational techniques
- communicate with social service users
- support social service users with specific communication needs
- social justice
- assist social service users in formulating complaints
- maintain the trust of service users
- company policies
- accept own accountability
- manage stress in the work place
- comply with legislation in social services
- build helping relationship with social service users
Optional (EN) · 45
- handle children's problems
- support social service users at the end of life
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- address public health issues
- provide first aid
- provide in-home support for disabled individuals
- assess the development of youth
- apply a holistic approach in care
- family law
- monitor children's physical development
- provide testimony in court hearings
- support the positiveness of youths
- perform cleaning duties
- disability care
- assist with self-medication
- evaluate prospective foster parents
- plan social service process
- older adults' needs
- prepare youths for adulthood
- support social service users to manage their financial affairs
- disability types
- implement care programmes for children
- support traumatised children
- conduct foster care visits
- assist with personal administration issues
- assist families in crisis situations
- apply foreign languages in social services
- support social service users to live at home
- promote the safeguarding of young people
- contribute to the safeguarding of children
- adolescent psychological development
- support children's wellbeing
- evaluate older adults' ability to take care of themselves
- distribute meals to patients
- communicate with youth
- assist children with special needs in education settings
- communicate by use of interpretation services
- advise on housing
- determine child welfare
- support individuals to adjust to physical disability
- provide social guidance over the phone
- maintain relations with children's parents
- child protection
- work with social service users in a group
- supervise children
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