About Social Work
If you’re looking for a career where you can make a significant difference to people’s lives, then you can’t go past the sometimes demanding, yet incredibly rewarding, vocation of social work.
Social work can be as interesting, diverse and unpredictable as society itself. As a community worker you might advocate for immigrants and refugees or work to improve quality of life standards for remote Indigenous communities; as a counsellor you could help grieving families within hospitals or provide family counselling; and as a caseworker you might empower people with disabilities, assess and respond to risks for children or support people with substance addictions.
Each of these roles involves empathy, ethics and the ability to make some difficult decisions, but they also have positive social change as the reward, and not every career can boast that.
Potential social work career outcomes include: Community Care Worker, Youth Support Worker, Case Support Worker, Addiction Support Worker, Disability Support Worker, Social Work Coordinator, Care Assessor, Home Care Coordinator, Aboriginal Support Worker, Liaison Officer.
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Whether you’re working with children, communities, older people or the disadvantaged, when you meet people at a time of need, you need to be sensitive to the situation, and that can take experience. Courses provide the knowledge you need in developmental studies, sociology, psychology and social policy, and this goes hand-in-hand with rigorous training to make sure you’re ready for fieldwork.
Social work provide vital foundations for our society and with an expanding population, the community services sector is only going to continue to grow.
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