The role of an adult social worker is extremely broad‚ undertaking many roles to ensure that an individual and their families are able to access and make best of the resources available to them. Social Workers often deal with situations that are high in complexity‚ stress and uncertainty‚ often with conflicts of interest and risk. Most day-to-day work involves supporting service users‚ preventing family breakdowns‚ reduce risk of abuse and neglect and help people maintain or recover their independence
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Ellys Taylor Understand the role of the social care worker. Understand working relationships in social care settings. A working relationship is professional based. It is made around a companies contracts‚ policies and procedures. A person would have a working relationship with their managers‚ colleagues‚ other health professionals and their patients. Within a nursing home a social worker’s working relationship with a patient is one based on care and support. It is to help somebody with their everyday
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In this essay I will analyse the concepts of health‚ disability‚ illness and behaviour in relation to users of health and social care services. I will take a look into how perceptions of specific needs have changed of time. I will also include the impact of legislation‚ social policy society and culture on the ways that services are made available to individuals with specific needs. This will include me analysing the needs of individuals with specific needs‚ explain the current system for supporting
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Assessment Paper 3 Application Of Theory to Bio-Psycho-Social Assessment When applying Erikson ’s theory and his 8 stages it allowed me to assesess each individual on what stage they are currently in and the stages that there has been issues in achiving. In the case of LaJoe it would seem that she had already achieved stages 1 through 6 during the early part of living in Henry Honer. As the decline of a positive community and family‚ LaJoe
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In this essay I am going to explore the concept of help and how it is offered in the role of a social care practitioner. I will talk about positive and negative responsibility of help within social care. My granny used to say “Help others to help yourself” Help has a lot of meanings but in social care I can define help as supporting individuals to do something that makes life easier and guide them through the process. Assist with different daily tasks‚ guide individuals in different transitions of
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personal relationship are mainly the physical‚ verbal and non-verbal boundaries. Working relationships are built and based on a common work related or ethic/ ethos basis and status. They usually have a strong moral and ethical bond that workers are bound to by code of conduct and often covered and protected by law an example of this would be personal‚ work related‚ information is protected by law. Status‚ importance and it follows respect can be based on the position within that role for example
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feelings‚ identifying and supporting personal strengths and social assets‚ breaking down problems into parts that can be solved more readily‚ and maintaining a focus on goals and the means of achieving them (Barker‚ 1995). Mediator The mediator role involves resolving arguments or conflicts micro‚ mezzo‚ or macro systems. At the macro level‚ the mediator helps various subsystems within a community‚ or a community and some other system‚ work out their differences. At the micro and mezzo levels‚ mediation
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1. Understand working relationships in social care settings. 1.1 Explain how a working relationship is different from a personal relationship. Working relationships are based on formal policies and procedures and agreed ways of working. They are bound by contracts of employment and also have codes of practice to be followed so they are professional based. My responsibility as a care assistant is to deliver a very high standard service to individuals. This includes support for everyday living e
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My motivation for becoming a social worker has stemmed from my past experiences growing up as a child. My family moved from Guyana to the United States when I was a young child. As an immigrant family‚ my parents suffered financially to provide for my brother and I. Not only did we suffer from poverty my younger was also born with Down syndrome. My parents did not know much about this mental illness disorder coming from a third world country‚ there is not sufficient information and resources about
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great social worker. She explained to me that becoming a social worker is very rewarding and sometime can get a little overwhelming because of the case
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