Social Work Assistant Careers

WORK ENVIRONMENT:-

Social work assistant gives support to the skilled social worker in assisting, advising and defending a variety of people in the hospitals, community and other settings like residential care homes.

Being a social work assistant, you can work in various clients groups, which includes:

• elder people
• families in anxiety

#!/usr/bin/perl use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser); print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; open(LATEST, "aroj_mid.txt"); @bnr_all = ; close(LATEST); print "@bnr_all\n"; exit;

• people with corporeal or learning disabilities
• people suffering from psychological health problems
• children at risk

Your tasks can include:

• remaining in touch with the clients and pursuing enquiries
• giving advice to the clients and their families relating to available resources
• scheduling appointments
• evaluating the needs of the clients and putting together care plans (for instance, when a customer is discharged from the hospital)
• write reports and keep the accurate records
• performing everyday home visits to examine the welfare of the customers
• following the care plan of social worker
• remain advanced with the changes in legislations
• be present in the meeting with the outside agencies and your department
• coordinate with other health care expert

You might also be called by other job titles like home care officer, community support worker or social service assistant.

QUALIFICATION, EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:-

You will have the opportunity to find the work if you have some experience (voluntary or paid) of doing the job with the people in the caring role. Check the website of Social Work and Care Careers for suggestions on volunteering and links to volunteer employment websites.

• Social Work and Care Careers - Volunteering

Employers will normally take into consideration the experience to be more significant that your qualification, though they might ask for excellent secondary education standard.

You might find it useful to take a full-time or part-time college course like Diploma in Health and Social Care and BTEC National Certification earlier than looking for the work. This is not necessary, but the majority of social care courses will include work placements and so can be an excellent way to get the valuable experience.

For any job where you will be working with the defenseless adults or children, you will have to go by a background checks from the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB). (Past prudence and assurance might not routinely check you from doing the job in the social care- check the site for all the information).

• Criminal Records Bureau

It will be helpful for you if you are having a driving license.

TRAINING DETAILS:-

When you begin to do your job your employer will give orientation training to approved national care standards. You will also study on the job from skilled and experienced personnel.

• Skills for Care, Common Induction Standards

You are also likely to have continuing training all through your profession, which might comprise domestic short course and the opportunity to obtain the work related qualifications like National Vocational Qualifications in Health and Social Care (Level 2 - 4).

you can also take a part-time course at the local colleges for other qualifications like social care-related Foundation Degree. With the help of this qualification you can stick together to the second year of the social work degree if you make a decision to teach as a social worker in upcoming future.

Through experience, your employer might also present the chance for you to learn for the social work degree proletarian.

Register of social care workers

The General Social Care Council (GSCC) operates a register of skilled and student social worker in England. In the future, all social care workers, together with assistant will have to join the register and pursue the GSCC Code of Practice. Check the website of GSCC for the details on register.

• General Social Care Council - Social Care Register

SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE:-

• ability to talk to people of all the background
• ability to work independently and as a team member
• ability to evaluate conditions and take proper actions
• good interpersonal and communication skills
• a flexible and convenient attitude to work
• persistence, diplomacy and sympathy
• knowledge of different group of customer requirements
• toughness, to deal with the complicated situations and disobliging clients
• excellent organizational and time management skills
• good administrative skills and proficient with the computer

SALARY AND OTHER BENEFITS:-

• Preliminary income can be approximately $16,000 yearly.
• With experience and related qualifications, salary can go up to between $18,000 and $23,000.
• For agency the hourly rate work can be between $8 and $14.

WORKING CONDITIONS:-

In case of full-time job you will have to work for 37 hours in a week. You can work for fixed hours or shift pattern which includes unsocial hours. Proletarian work is ordinary.

You can also work in the residential homes, in the community, hospitals, traveling around the areas and giving visits to the clients in their residence.

DIFFERENT OPPORTUNITIES:-

You can get the chances with various employers, like:

• charities
• local authority social services departments
• care homes
• social care recruitment agencies
• voluntary agencies

Jobs might be promoted in the home and nationalized press, specialist recruitment agencies and employers website. Through experience, you can work towards meeting the criteria as a social worker by studying individually or with the help and financial support from your employers.

On the other hand, you can make use of your experience as a stepping stone into associated careers like family support work or counseling. #!/usr/bin/perl use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser); print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; open(LATEST, "footer_career.txt"); @bnr_all = ; close(LATEST); print "@bnr_all\n"; exit;