From benefits advice worker to consultant social worker
62 of the 72 essential skills of a consultant social worker are already essential for a benefits advice worker — about 86% of the job, before you learn anything new.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 62
- skills carry over
- 10
- would be new
- 86%
- of the target job covered
- 72
- essential skills of a consultant social worker
What a consultant social worker does
Consultant social workers deliver high quality social work services by contributing to the development and improvement of social work and social care practice. They contribute to policy development, deliver trainings and focus on research in the field of social work practices.
What carries over
62 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- accept own accountability
- address problems critically
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- 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
- 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
and 22 more
What would be new
10 skillsEssential for a consultant social worker and not for a benefits advice worker. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- adolescent psychological development
- assess the development of youth
- client-centred counselling
- counselling methods
- manage a social work unit
- prepare youths for adulthood
- promote the safeguarding of young people
- support children's wellbeing
- support social service users at the end of life
- support the positiveness of youths
Other moves from benefits advice worker
2 roles- employment support worker62 skills in common
- family social worker62 skills in common
← benefits advice workerconsultant social worker →The other way round
No account needed to start
How far are you from being a consultant social worker?
MyNodes reads your CV once, maps it to this same taxonomy, and shows you which roles you are already closest to and the few skills that would open the most doors. The file is deleted as soon as it has been read.