What would you do as a Social worker?
Social workers
- usually work regular business hours and may be on call
- usually work in hospitals, health clinics, hospices, schools, offices and community centres and may travel locally
- may do emotionally demanding work
- need to be responsible, work well with others and communicate well
Tasks
- support people in need
- help people with personal issues
- develop treatment plans and strategies
- support individual and community needs
- help people with work and school issues
- talk with community members
- maintain client records
- arrange physical and mental health services
- write reports and evaluations
- recommend legal actions
How can you become a Social worker?
You need a qualification to become a social worker.
You need
- to be 20 years old or over
- a bachelor's degree in social work
- to pass a police check
- an Annual Practicing Certificate
- a driver licence
You may need
- experience in similar work
If you're in school
You need University Entrance to do the study or training for this job.
