Social work researcher
Code 2632.6.1
Social work researchers manage research projects aiming to investigate and provide reports on social issues. They first perform research by gathering information through interviews, focus groups and questionnaires; followed by organising and analysing the gathered information using computer software packages. They analyse social problems and needs, and the different ways and techniques to respond to them.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- social sciences
- legal requirements in the social sector
- social justice
- scientific research methodology
- company policies
- social work theory
Skills and competences
- speak different languages
- interact professionally in research and professional environments
- advocate for social service users
- apply case management
- implement scientific decision making in healthcare
- apply research ethics and scientific integrity principles in research activities
- apply scientific methods
- apply quality standards in social services
- apply socially just working principles
- apply problem solving in social service
- apply holistic approach within social services
- accept own accountability
- communicate with a non-scientific audience
- communicate with social service users
- communicate professionally with colleagues in other fields
- contribute to protecting individuals from harm
- cooperate at inter-professional level
- develop professional network with researchers and scientists
- meet standards of practice in social services
- demonstrate disciplinary expertise
- refer social service users
- operate open source software
- develop professional network
- disseminate results to the scientific community
- develop professional identity in social work
- apply anti-oppressive practices
- write scientific publications
- build helping relationship with social service users
- evaluate research activities
- assess social service users' situation
- make legislation transparent for users of social services
- manage research data
- manage findable accessible interoperable and reusable data
- manage open publications
- manage social crisis
- empower social service users
- integrate gender dimension in research
- apply crisis intervention
- involve service users and carers in care planning
- perform scientific research
- conduct research across disciplines
- maintain records of work with service users
- negotiate with social service stakeholders
- negotiate with social service users
- think abstractly
- apply person-centred care
- listen actively
- mentor individuals
- prevent social problems
- promote social change
- promote inclusion
- promote open innovation in research
- promote the transfer of knowledge
- publish academic research
- conduct interview in social service
- carry out social work research
- draft scientific or academic papers and technical documentation
- review social service plan
- follow health and safety precautions in social care practices
- apply for research funding
- have computer literacy
- consider social impact of actions on service users
- apply decision making within social work
- work within communities
Transversal competences
- address problems critically
- manage ethical issues within social services
- apply organisational techniques
- demonstrate leadership in social service cases
- increase the impact of science on policy and society
- manage intellectual property rights
- manage personal professional development
- perform project management
- manage stress in the work place
- report on social development
- organise social work packages
- think analytically
- plan social service process
- provide support to social services users
- deliver social services in diverse cultural communities
- promote the participation of citizens in scientific and research activities
- promote service users' rights
- provide social counselling
- protect vulnerable social service users
- undertake continuous professional development in social work
- relate empathetically
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- synthesise information
- tolerate stress
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
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