youth worker
Youth workers support, accompany and counsel young people, focusing on their personal and social development. They are involved in managing community projects and services through one-to-one or group-based activities. Youth workers can be volunteers or paid professionals who facilitate non-formal and informal learning processes. They are engaged in a large spectrum of activities by, with and for young people.
Also called: youth programmes social worker, youth employment advisor, youth project team worker, welfare advisor, youth project team leader, youth social worker, social worker youth justice, senior youth worker
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- essential skills
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- optional skills
- 8
- related roles
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Where you can go from here
8 rolesOccupations sharing the most essential skills with this one. The number is a count, not an opinion.
- youth offending team workerWhat changes?67 skills in common
- consultant social worker66 skills in common
- family social workerWhat changes?66 skills in common
- mental health social workerWhat changes?66 skills in common
- migrant social worker66 skills in common
- substance misuse worker66 skills in common
- child care social worker65 skills in common
- education welfare officer64 skills in common
Essential skills
72- accept own accountability
- address problems critically
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- adolescent psychological development
- 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
- assess the development of youth
- build helping relationship with social service users
- communicate about youth's well-being
- communicate professionally with colleagues in other fields
- communicate with social service users
- communicate with youth
- 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
- cooperate with professionals
- deliver social services in diverse cultural communities
- demonstrate leadership in social service cases
- develop professional identity in social work
- develop professional network
- 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
- perform street interventions in social work
- plan social service process
- prepare youths for adulthood
- prevent social problems
- promote inclusion
- promote service users' rights
- promote social change
- promote the safeguarding of young people
- promote youth work in the local community
- 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
- sexual disorders
- social justice
- social sciences
- social work theory
- support the positiveness of youths
- tolerate stress
- undertake continuous professional development in social work
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work within communities
Optional skills
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