From social work lecturer to community social worker

Community social workers help people in disadvantage or excluded from society to change their situation and handle their integration problems. They work with communities focusing on specific groups. Community social workers liaise closely with social workers, schools, local authorities and probation officers representing people before policy makers at local and national level.

• address problems critically
• adhere to organisational guidelines
• advocate for social service users
• 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
• 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
• cooperate at inter-professional level
• counselling methods
• deliver social services in diverse cultural communities
• demonstrate leadership in social service cases
• develop professional identity in social work
• empower social service users
• follow health and safety precautions in social care practices
• legal requirements in the social sector
• maintain records of work with service users
• 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 social change
• protect vulnerable social service users
• provide social counselling
• provide support to social services users
• refer social service users
• report on social development
• review social service plan

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• accept own accountability
• apply anti-oppressive practices
• apply case management
• apply socially just working principles
• build community relations
• communicate professionally with colleagues in other fields
• company policies
• contribute to protecting individuals from harm
• develop professional network
• evaluate older adults' ability to take care of themselves
• have computer literacy
• involve service users and carers in care planning
• listen actively
• make legislation transparent for users of social services
• manage stress in the work place
• perform fundraising activities
• perform street interventions in social work
• promote service users' rights
• provide community development services
• raise awareness on local community's priorities
• relate empathetically
• tolerate stress
• work in a multicultural environment in health care
• work within communities

• social work practice educator44 skills in common
• consultant social worker44 skills in common