Occupation Atlasbenefits advice worker
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/4c40c1e8-0584-4a77-8ca3-ec82538f9488
benefits advice worker
Benefits advice workers guide individuals in the social work area to help them solve specific problems in their personal life by addressing personal and relationship issues, inner conflicts, depression and addictions. They attempt to empower individuals to achieve change and improve the quality of their life. They may also support and advise clients on demanding their social security benefits.
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Typically associated skills
Essential (67)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- accept own accountability
- address problems critically
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- advise on social security benefits
- 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
- develop social security programmes
- 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
- promote social security programmes
- 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 security law
- social work theory
- support social service users to manage their financial affairs
- tolerate stress
- undertake continuous professional development in social work
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work within communities
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