My role is a support worker, and a support worker is a person who cares for vulnerable individuals in the aspect of their day to day living and helping them to live a fulfilled life. Duties and responsibilities Duties of support workers are unique and varied because the people we support have varied and unique needs. At Liaise, we support people with autism and learning disabilities and we support each of them according to their needs to live a fulfilling and independent life. Support workers duties includes support in - Preparation of meals - Household chores - Medication administration - Management of finances - Accessing of Community - support in learning new skills - Personal care - Shopping - Meeting families and friends - Attending medical …show more content…
Learning activities help you to keep up to date with best practice, acquire new skills and enhance overall performance/practice. Learning activities can be informed of: •Formal training •Professional discussion •Induction •Own research •Reflection •Observing others •Reading care plans For example, during my induction into my new role I read the care plans of the people we support and saw their varied needs and how each of them should be supported but could not single handily support them well enough until after observing my colleagues do that during the period of …show more content…
•Think about the events/experiences •Access whether good or bad •Analyse what you could have done differently •Evaluate to know what you could do better in the future Continuing professional development (CPD) is the learning activity a professional undergoes in order to develop and enhance abilities and best practices. Examples of CPD include. •Formal Training •Workshops and Conferences •Online Courses •Own Research •Voluntary Work •Reflective practice •Mentorship Importance of CPD: •It keeps you updated with current legislation/regulations, policies and best practices. It gives you opportunity to learn new skills and gain knowledge and understanding. It provides you with motivation within your role. It helps in building professional network and relationships. It helps you stay current with new trends in your profession. It helps to maintain professional confidence and competence, enhancing career prospects. CPD also provides high quality service to the people we
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Not only will the social worker be an advocate for the patients, they will also be working with an interdisciplinary team (Doctors, Nurses, Therapies, Dietians etc.) in coordinating the proper care that may be needed. Social Workers will meet with families or represtentives on a scheduled basis to inform about the course of treatment care options and discharge planning if needed. They play a vital role in this setting as an advocate and liaison between the patient and the community. Most of these Social Workers have a Bachelors Degree and have had experience with children with medical disabilities. At this particular hospital the social worker works with the local school system by setting up school for these children and making sure they are equipped with what they need to be able to attend or have it in their
Communication is an essential part of daily life for everyone but for people who have learning difficulties or impairments like those in Lennox Castle it is especially important. This is why it is imperative all workers in health and social care sector ‘support people in having a voice and being heard' (K101, Unit 4 p 183), this is one of the five principles of care implanted in the care sector. Care workers should encourage service users to speak out which will empower them to create their own individuality or identity which in turn will give them a better quality of life; this is a lot different to the way people with learning difficulties w...
I love helping people in general. Family support workers are social services professionals who provide assistance and guidance to children and families in need. They work in settings such as foster care or adoption agencies, child protective services agencies or family services organizations (The Career of a Family Support Worker, 2018). Family Support Worker, current laws, accreditation, licensure, and certification standards related to health
This paper is about a reflection on a class interview for a senior social worker. The teacher gave every student ten minutes for this interview. The students did not have an idea of what their situation was about until couple minutes before the interview. This paper will focus on the limits of confidentiality for the client, potential assessment for the client, engagement with the client, and evaluation of the social worker.
Iam a motivated, adaptable and responsible student who has the temperament, key skills and knowledge that are essential for the social work sector, with room for improvement. I have worked in the care industry for a quite long time now as support worker with Richmond council. I look after the physical and mental well-being of vulnerable adults in care. My main tasks are checking each resident’s needs and progress, providing physical care; which includes bathing, toileting, dressing, and feeding. More to that, creating safe and positive living environment, providing one to one counselling or group therapy sessions, teaching daily skills such as budgeting, shopping and claiming benefits.
The role of social work within a day centre is to work as part of multidisciplinary team by providing a service that is in line with the statutory requirements and departmental priorities. The role of a social worker on a disability team is to carry out risk assessment, comprehensive assessment, care plans, advocacy such as making referrals to agencies on behalf of the service user and promoting their independence by providing them with the support and guidance they may need to lead as normal life as possible.
Introduction The role of social workers in society is to help extend opportunities and resources to promote equality and social justice to their clients. A successful social worker’s goal is to positively impact the lives of the most vulnerable individuals in society. In a particular community, the role of the social worker is to represent and advocate for their clients. The social worker uses their expertise and professional skills to improve the quality of life by raising the awareness level of their community’s population.
A CPD training planner should identify to ensure continuous flow of events to avoid repetition of the similar topics during CPD activities. It also important that the CPD activities is cost effectiveness. Funding for staff development should be allocated by departmental heads in the planning of the yearly budget. The course organizers should ensure a reasonable fee is charged when organizing courses. Whoever is organizing courses should look into the costs so that the everybody can afford it.
A care worker has many responsibilities. For example, it is a care worker’s responsibility to treat each individual fairly and equally with care. This is because a care worker would have to help people who have difficulties doing everyday tasks like getting up out of bed, getting to different places around the home, getting dressed, using the facilities and on some occasions eating. Some clients in the home could have physical disabilities, learning disabilities or mental illnesses such as dementia and Alzheimer’s. A role that a care worker could have is spending quality time with the residents, talking to them and doing activities as a group. This will make the residents feel valued and cared for. Another role that a care worker could have would be to tend to a
You must be familiar with human development, how culture and society impact behaviour and the influence of economic structures on human behaviour. When working within the disability field, a human service worker should be able to have a holistic understanding of disability and should see their impairment as only one aspect of what makes them who they are. Therefore a human service worker should focus on maintaining and enhancing quality of life. Contributing knowledge and skills to assist people with disability, their families and communities through program design, counselling, case management and advocacy. Now there is a number of roles human services workers to expertise due to expansion of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Human service workers also work alongside people with disability to advocate for their rights, and facilitate their empowerment so as to achieve their needs and aspirations (Australian Association of Social Worker, 2016). I as an individual, I think I might be able to make a great contribution to the sector through applying the knowledge I would have gained from this program to help clients reach their goals and be happier, healthier individuals and build more effective
Continuing professional development (CPD) means that professionals participate in learning activities to further improve the quality of their learning and develop their abilities and to update their learning continuously. It enables them to set goals and work to achieve them, so going above and beyond any initial training. "It’s the means by which you can maintain and enhance your knowledge and skills to complement both your current role and your future career progression". (https://www.theirm.org/membership/continuing-professional-development.aspx [accessed 23/10/17]).
Professional development plan - An intentional course of action that responds to your professional interests, desire to grow in the field, and the changing demands of your work (Pdx.edu, n.d.).
A child with a mental or physical disability may not be able to think, work, play, and function like other children of the same age. Someone working in the special needs career will be able to assist these children to function in their everyday lives and to meet goals to encourage them to thrive. In order for someone to work with special needs children, they need to understand the factors involved in a child’s improvement, have a heart for helping others, and be properly educated and trained.
engage different learning styles, provide hands-on opportunities for use of specialist tools or equipment, reinforcing learning, supporting and motivating individual learning, fostering independent learning through extended learning.