Social Workers

Key Tasks

• •Acting as a facilitator between clients in need and community services
• •Assessing resources for health, welfare, recreation, housing, employment and other community services
• •Providing leadership and assistance for the implementation of pilot projects in community development and self-help, and planning and implementing research projects to address client needs, organisation goals and social policy
• •Cooperating with community organisations, social agencies and voluntary groups to improve services and develop new services
• •Conducting individual and family case interviews to identify the nature and extent of clients' problems
• •Assisting clients to understand and resolve problems by providing information, acting as a mediator and referring them to community and self-help agencies
• •Analysing, developing, promoting and implementing social policies through the use of practice experience, research, analytic frameworks, and negotiation skills to respond to social need through a fair, equitable and effective allocation of social resource
• •Monitoring the progress of clients by maintaining contact
• •Compiling case records and reports

Employment Projections to 2034