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US
Company size
11-50 employees
Job sector
Human Services
occupation category
Child, Family, and School Social Workers
Job type
Contract
Work environment
In person
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- Negotiates, mediates, and advocates with and on behalf of diverse clients and constituencies
- Provides, finds, or arranges for support services, such as child care, homemaker service, prenatal care, substance abuse treatment, job training, counseling, or parenting classes to prevent more serious problems from developing
- Demonstrates sufficient self-awareness to examine the impact of her/his personal beliefs as potential barriers in working with clients and client systems
- Critically chooses and implements interventions to achieve practice goals and enhance capacities of clients and constituencies
- Collects supplementary information needed to assist client, such as employment records, medical records, or school reports
- Applies knowledge of methods of identifying, analyzing and implementing evidence-informed interventions to achieve client and constituency goals
- Places children in foster or adoptive homes, institutions, or medical treatment centers
- Uses inter-professional collaboration as appropriate to achieve beneficial practice outcomes
- Counsels individuals, groups, families, or communities regarding issues including mental health, poverty, unemployment, substance abuse, physical abuse, rehabilitation, social adjustment, child care, or medical care
- Applies self-awareness and self-regulation to manage the influence of personal biases and values in working with diverse clients and constituencies
- Presents themselves as learners and engage clients and constituencies as experts of their own experiences
- Supervises other social workers
- Refers clients to community resources for services, such as job placement, debt counseling, legal aid, housing, medical treatment, or financial assistance, and provide concrete information, such as where to go and how to apply
- Makes ethical decisions by applying the standards of the NASW Code of Ethics, relevant laws and regulations, models for ethical decision-making, ethical conduct of research, and additional codes of ethics as appropriate to context
- Facilitates effective transitions and endings that advance mutually agreed-on goals
- Engages stakeholders to take action on findings
- Uses technology ethically and appropriately to facilitate practice outcomes
- Participates in design, implementation and interpretation of community-level assessments (e.g. windshield survey of community assets and challenges, community asset mapping)
- Applies critical thinking to engage in analysis of quantitative and qualitative research methods and research findings
- Evaluates the effectiveness of counseling or educational programs
- Counsels students whose behavior, school progress, or mental or physical impairment indicate a need for assistance, diagnosing students' problems and arranging for needed services
- Identifies and engages community members as research partners, including community consent processes
- Identifies and works with CHW peers to help others grow professionally, acts ethically and meets the needs of the individuals and communities served
- Intervenes with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities to achieve optimal outcomes
- Serves as liaisons between students, homes, schools, family services, child guidance clinics, courts, protective services, doctors, and other contacts to help children who face problems, such as disabilities, abuse, or poverty
- Develops and reviews service plans in consultation with clients and perform follow-ups assessing the quantity and quality of services provided
- Identifies social policy at the local, state, and federal level that impacts well-being, service delivery, and access to social services
- Collects and organizes data, and applies critical thinking to interpret information from clients and constituencies
- Applies knowledge of issues related to cultural diversity, age, gender, sexual orientation and disabilities in assessing, planning and intervening with clients and client systems
- Uses supervision and consultation to guide professional judgment and behavior
- Leads group counseling sessions that provide support in such areas as grief, stress, or chemical dependency
- Develops evaluation/research design and methods
- Evaluates practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities
- Evaluates potential problems in home or work environments of clients
- Demonstrates the ability to utilize a range of treatment approaches as is indicated by the uniqueness of the client and client systems
- Demonstrates the ability to protect the client, the public, colleagues and self from any risk factors involved
- Maintains case history records and prepare reports
- Arranges for medical, psychiatric, and other tests that may disclose causes of difficulties and indicate remedial measures
- Recommends temporary foster care and advise foster or adoptive parents
- Conducts, reports, and communicates results and implications of basic screening tests (height, weight, blood pressure, glucose level, etc.)
- Collects and interprets data, shares results and findings
- Applies critical thinking to analyze, formulate, and advocate for policies that advance human rights and social, economic, and environmental justice
- Selects appropriate intervention strategies based on the assessment, research knowledge, and values and preferences of clients and constituencies
- Confers with clients to discuss treatment plans or progress
- Facilitates, obtains or coordinates transportation to services and helps ameliorate other barriers to services
- Applies and communicates understanding of the importance of diversity and difference in shaping life experiences in practice at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels
- Administers welfare programs
- Evaluates personal characteristics and home conditions of foster home or adoption applicants
- Conducts social research
- Assists communities in building capacity by identifying resources, coordinating service and support providers, linking groups or systems that provide synergistic support, and implementing advocacy strategies to address unmet needs
- Applies knowledge of theories of human behavior and the social environment, and critically evaluates and applies this knowledge in evaluating outcomes
- Provides referrals and follow-up support to ensure that services were obtained
- Assists individuals in building and expanding their personal capacity to identify and manage their health conditions, obtains services as needed, identifies opportunities to help others, and represents their needs through communication and advocacy
- Counsels parents with child rearing problems, interviewing the child and family to determine whether further action is required
- Interviews clients individually, in families, or in groups, assessing their situations, capabilities, and problems to determine what services are required to meet their needs
- Consults with parents, teachers, and other school personnel to determine causes of problems, such as truancy and misbehavior, and to implement solutions
- Demonstrates a sound bio-psychosocial theoretical understanding of clients and client systems
- Applies knowledge of principles, methods, and procedures for diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of physical and mental dysfunctions, and for career counseling and guidance
- Advocates for individual or community needs
- Counsels clients regarding educational or vocational issues
- Identifies and informs people and systems about community assets and challenges
- Applies knowledge of group behavior and dynamics, societal trends and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures and their history and origins
- Participates in design, implementation and interpretation of individual-level assessments (e.g. home environmental assessment)
- Identifies priority issues and evaluation/research questions
- Assesses how social welfare and economic policies impact the delivery of and access to social services;
- Applies evaluation findings to improve practice effectiveness at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels
- Critically analyzes, monitors, and evaluates intervention and program processes and outcomes
- Documents and tracks individual- and population-level data
- Serves on policy-making committees, assist in community development, and assist client groups by lobbying for solutions to problems
- Determines clients' eligibility for financial assistance
- Participates in care coordination or case management, including as part of a team
- Collects and distributes materials that meet basic needs (e.g. provides food, blankets, clothing to those in need
- Uses reflection and self-regulation to manage personal values and maintains professionalism in practice situations
- Uses and translate research evidence to inform and improve practice, policy, and service delivery
- Addresses legal issues, such as child abuse and discipline, assisting with hearings and providing testimony to inform custody arrangements
