28 Sep 2021Social Care - Useful Phrases
Social Care - Useful Phrases
- Methodical and dependable Social Worker with over 3 years’ experience in education and community settings.
- Qualified and empathetic Community Worker with 1 year of experience supporting individuals with intellectual, physical and mental health challenges.
- Thorough knowledge of child protection legislation and local authority safeguarding procedures.
- Experienced working with agencies including school boards, foster care panels and An Garda Síochána.
- Engages well with clients, and aims to get to the core of the issues that cause them to engage in harmful behaviour.
- Considers the feelings of each of the client’s loved ones, and looks to empower individuals to help them make positive life-changing decisions.
- Capable of conducting initial assessments of clients' situation to determine needs and goals.
- Capacity to mediate, negotiate and interpret on behalf of clients.
- Proven success planning, coordinating, managing and implementing support packages to help clients deal with difficulties and overcome dependencies.
- Experience of providing support to people with complex needs.
- Highly skilled practitioner who enables service users to make decisions for themselves in all aspects of their lives.
- Experienced in managing assigned caseloads in an efficient and effective manner, while utilising exceptional time management skills to successfully advocate for clients.
- Excellent ability to interview service users and assess their current condition, needs, strengths and weaknesses.
- Ability to absorb detailed procedural and legal information.
- Meticulously ensures all case files, and other records, strictly comply with policies, regulations, and procedures.
- Keeps up to date with advances in Social Work research, and conducts ongoing reviews and evaluations of industry literature.
