Occupation Atlassocial services manager
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/c18fddf5-cfc4-4f9c-94d6-86608faaa1dd
social services manager
Social services managers have the responsibility for strategic and operational leadership and management of staff teams and resources within and or across social services. They are responsible for the implementation of legislation and policies relating to, for example, decisions about vulnerable people. They promote social work and social care values and ethics, equality and diversity, and relevant codes guiding practice. They are responsible for liaising with other professionals in criminal justice, education and health. They can be responsible for contributing to local and national policy development.
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Job Zone
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- 4
- 5
Zone 4: Considerable Preparation Needed
Considerable preparation. Usually a bachelor's degree plus several years of work-related experience, knowledge, or training.
Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.
Occupational interest profile
ESCEnterprising · Social · Conventional — the three strongest interests, in order
- E Enterprising6.97
- S Social5.43
- C Conventional4.21
- A Artistic2.43
- I Investigative2.17
- R Realistic1.00
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Social and Community Service Managers (11-9151.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its exact O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (56)
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
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- adolescent psychological development
- advocate for others
- advocate for social service users
- analyse community needs
- apply decision making within social work
- apply holistic approach within social services
- apply quality standards in social services
- apply socially just working principles
- assess social service users' situation
- build business relationships
- build helping relationship with social service users
- carry out social work research
- communicate professionally with colleagues in other fields
- communicate with social service users
- comply with legislation in social services
- consider economic criteria in decision making
- contribute to protecting individuals from harm
- cooperate at inter-professional level
- customer service
- deliver social services in diverse cultural communities
- demonstrate leadership in social service cases
- evaluate staff performance in social work
- follow health and safety precautions in social care practices
- implement marketing strategies
- influence policy makers on social service issues
- involve service users and carers in care planning
- legal requirements in the social sector
- listen actively
- maintain records of work with service users
- manage a social work unit
- manage budgets for social services programs
- manage ethical issues within social services
- manage fundraising activities
- manage government funding
- manage social crisis
- manage staff
- manage stress in the work place
- monitor regulations in social services
- perform public relations
- plan social service process
- prevent social problems
- promote inclusion
- promote social awareness
- promote social change
- provide safeguarding to individuals
- relate empathetically
- report on social development
- review social service plan
- set organisational policies
- show intercultural awareness
- social sciences
- strategies for handling cases of elder abuse
- use person-centred planning
- work within communities
Optional (58)
- advise on social security benefits
- apply conflict management
- apply organisational techniques
- apply person-centred care
- apply strategic thinking
- assess the development of youth
- budgetary principles
- build community relations
- child protection
- communicate about youth's well-being
- communicate with others who are significant to service users
- communicate with youth
- conduct interview in social service
- contribute to the safeguarding of children
- coordinate care
- develop professional network
- develop social security programmes
- disability care
- ensure compliance with policies
- ensure public safety and security
- financial management
- government policy implementation
- government social security programmes
- handle children's problems
- health care system
- impact of social contexts on health
- implement care programmes for children
- liaise with local authorities
- maintain relations with children's parents
- maintain relations with local representatives
- maintain relationships with government agencies
- manage administrative systems
- manage budgets
- manage emergency procedures
- manage government policy implementation
- manage health and safety
- manage health and safety standards
- meet standards of practice in social services
- older adults' needs
- organisational policies
- organise facility activities
- organise operations of residential care services
- oversee quality control
- pedagogy
- personnel management
- plan shifts of employees
- present reports
- promote the safeguarding of young people
- protect client interests
- provide improvement strategies
- public housing legislation
- respond to enquiries
- social security law
- supervise children
- support children's wellbeing
- support social service users in skills management
- tend to elderly people
- train employees
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
Closest occupations
Compare any occupation →ESCO occupations that share the most of this occupation's 56 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
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