From community health worker to criminal justice social worker
12 of the 68 essential skills of a criminal justice social worker are already essential for a community health worker — about 18% 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.
- 12
- skills carry over
- 56
- would be new
- 18%
- of the target job covered
- 68
- essential skills of a criminal justice social worker
What a criminal justice social worker does
Criminal justice social workers tackle criminal behaviour and reduce risk of reoffending by promoting and establishing programs to prevent crime within communities. They assist in prosecutions and help to investigate criminal cases. They assist prisoners reinsert into the community after release from custody. They also support and supervise the offenders sentenced to community service and provide support to the victims and the people closely affected by the crime.
What carries over
12 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- apply decision making within social work
- apply knowledge of human behaviour
- apply quality standards in social services
- assess social service users' situation
- build helping relationship with social service users
- communicate with social service users
- deliver social services in diverse cultural communities
- legal requirements in the social sector
- maintain records of work with service users
- provide social counselling
- relate empathetically
- review social service plan
What would be new
56 skillsEssential for a criminal justice social worker and not for a community health worker. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- 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 holistic approach within social services
- apply organisational techniques
- apply person-centred care
- apply problem solving in social service
- apply socially just working principles
- assess offenders' risk behaviour
- communicate professionally with colleagues in other fields
- company policies
- conduct forensic evaluations
- conduct interview in social service
- consider social impact of actions on service users
- contribute to protecting individuals from harm
- cooperate at inter-professional level
- criminal law
- demonstrate leadership in social service cases
- develop professional identity in social work
- develop professional network
- empower social service users
- engage with offenders
- follow health and safety precautions in social care practices
- forensic psychiatry
- have computer literacy
- involve service users and carers in care planning
- listen actively
- 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
and 16 more
Other moves from community health worker
2 roles- community social worker12 skills in common
- mental health support worker11 skills in common
← community health workercriminal justice social worker →The other way round
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How far are you from being a criminal justice social worker?
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