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What’s it like to be a Social Worker?
Social workers help people to deal with personal and social problems, either
directly or by planning or carrying out programmes that benefit groups or
communities. They are interested in challenging the structural barriers that
contribute to inequality, discrimination, exploitation and oppression within
communities.
How much can I expect to earn?
Full-time employed Social Worker earn an average of $1297 per week. The
[average annual salary for this job is $67444 excluding super.]
Personal requirements
- commitment to social justice with a high level of ethical awareness and responsibility
- emotional maturity and empathy for others
- good analytic and problem-solving skills
- able to work independently and as part of a team
- able to view other people’s problems objectively
- self-aware and able to critically reflect on own practice
- good organisational skills
- respect for diversity
- good oral and written communication skills.
This job also involves:
Reading or writing
These jobs require moderate or better reading and writing skills. Workers may
be expected to prepare, understand or act on written materials, such as
letters or reports. People may wish to avoid these jobs if their reading or
writing English skills are limited to a small range of words or phrases and
symbols. Jobs remaining may still require very basic reading or writing
skills.
This occupation offers jobs at the following skill levels:
Professional Jobs
Jobs in this group usually require completion of a recognised Bachelor Degree,
or extensive relevant experience. Some jobs also require post-graduate study,
such as a Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma or Master Degree.
Study requirements
At school, you can study these subject(s) to get a good foundation for this
occupation:
Languages
School subjects that include some aspect of LANGUAGE provide a useful
background to these jobs. In some cases a language-related subject is a pre-
requisite for entry to courses that provide the training for the job.
Duties and tasks of a Social Worker
Social workers may perform the following tasks:
- provide counselling and support through a crisis that may be due to death, illness, relationship breakdown or other reasons
- provide clients with information about services that can assist them
- provide letters of referral or reports that will help clients to obtain other services such as crisis accommodation or social security benefits
- guide small groups of people to share their experiences, support each other and learn social skills
- assist community groups to plan and carry out programmes to help themselves (assisting newly arrived immigrants to form an association, for example)
- research community problems, needs and solutions through client contact and records of welfare and health agencies
- analyse statistics and write reports
- develop policy and evaluate programmes
- manage and train staff
- attend professional meetings
- lobby to change social welfare policies and procedures in the pursuit of social justice for all members of the community.
Specialisations
Social workers specialise in fields such as family, youth and child welfare
services; medical and health services; disability services; psychiatric and
general mental health services; juvenile and family law courts; aged care and
disabilities; income support; community development; schools; and correctional
services.
