Occupation Atlassocial worker
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/4b05bef2-ded4-4b09-ab94-f4c6a555a775
social worker
Social workers are practice-based professionals who promote social change and development, social cohesion, and the empowerment and liberation of people. They interact with individuals, families, groups, organisations and communities in order to provide various forms of therapy and counselling, group work, and community work. Social workers guide people to use services to claim benefits, access community resources, find jobs and training, obtain legal advice or deal with other local authority departments.
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Typically associated skills
Essential (53)
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
- 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 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 with social service users
- 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
- 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
- maintain records of work with service users
- make legislation transparent for users of social services
- manage ethical issues within social services
- manage social crisis
- 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 within communities
Optional (68)
- advise on conflict management
- advise on social security benefits
- assess social work students
- assess the development of youth
- assessment processes
- assist children with special needs in education settings
- assist families in crisis situations
- assist the homeless
- build community relations
- carry out social work research
- child protection
- clinical social work
- communicate about youth's well-being
- communicate with youth
- communication
- consultation
- counsel students
- counselling methods
- court procedures
- crisis intervention
- dependency on drugs
- disability care
- disability types
- empower individuals, families and groups
- engage with offenders
- establish collaborative relations
- family law
- identify mental health issues
- manage a social work unit
- manage volunteers
- migration
- older adults' needs
- pedagogy
- perform street interventions in social work
- personal development
- plan youth activities
- present reports
- promote mental health
- promote the safeguarding of young people
- promote youth work in the local community
- provide community development services
- provide domestic care
- provide immigration advice
- provide victim assistance
- raise awareness on local community's priorities
- rehabilitation
- social mediation
- social pedagogy
- social security law
- special needs education
- strategies for handling cases of sexual assault
- supervise students in social services
- support children's wellbeing
- 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 traumatised children
- support victims of human rights violations
- support volunteers
- teach principles of social work
- teamwork principles
- work for public inclusion
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
- work on the effects of abuse
- work with social service users in a group
- write work-related reports
O*NET equivalents
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Closest occupations
Compare any occupation →ESCO occupations that share the most of this occupation's 53 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
benefits advice worker
53 shared · 14 more of its owndetermine child welfare, apply anti-oppressive practices, apply case management, make legislation transparent for users of social services
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child care social worker
53 shared · 15 more of its owndetermine child welfare, apply anti-oppressive practices, apply case management, make legislation transparent for users of social services
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community care case worker
52 shared · 11 more of its ownapply anti-oppressive practices, apply case management, make legislation transparent for users of social services, negotiate with social service stakeholders
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crisis situation social worker
52 shared · 11 more of its ownapply anti-oppressive practices, apply case management, make legislation transparent for users of social services, negotiate with social service stakeholders
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enterprise development worker
52 shared · 11 more of its ownapply anti-oppressive practices, apply case management, make legislation transparent for users of social services, negotiate with social service stakeholders
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social work supervisor
52 shared · 11 more of its ownapply anti-oppressive practices, apply case management, make legislation transparent for users of social services, negotiate with social service stakeholders
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gerontology social worker
52 shared · 13 more of its ownapply anti-oppressive practices, apply case management, make legislation transparent for users of social services, negotiate with social service stakeholders
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homelessness worker
52 shared · 13 more of its ownapply anti-oppressive practices, apply case management, make legislation transparent for users of social services, negotiate with social service stakeholders
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