Mental health social worker
Code 2635.3.17
Mental health social workers assist and provide counselling to people with mental, emotional, or substance abuse problems. They focus on providing personalised support to cases and monitor the recovery process of their clients by providing therapy, crisis intervention, client advocacy and education. Mental health social workers may contribute to mental health services improvement and mental health outcomes for citizens.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- Evaluación de impacto en salud y calidad de la atención
- Métricas y evaluaciones de calidad en atención médica (KPIs)
- social sciences
- adolescent psychological development
- diagnosis of mental health issues
- legal requirements in the social sector
- social justice
- older adults' needs
- company policies
- social work theory
Skills and competences
- Aplicar normativas en proyectos de salud
- Entender las necesidades y expectativas de los usuarios en salud
- Identificar fuentes de datos de salud relevantes
- Realizar análisis de necesidades de salud
- Responder a las necesidades de los usuarios en un entorno de salud
- advocate for social service users
- apply case management
- 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
- support the positiveness of youths
- communicate with social service users
- communicate professionally with colleagues in other fields
- contribute to protecting individuals from harm
- cooperate at inter-professional level
- meet standards of practice in social services
- refer social service users
- develop professional network
- develop professional identity in social work
- apply anti-oppressive practices
- build helping relationship with social service users
- assess the development of youth
- evaluate older adults' ability to take care of themselves
- assess social service users' situation
- make legislation transparent for users of social services
- manage social crisis
- empower social service users
- identify mental health issues
- apply crisis intervention
- involve service users and carers in care planning
- maintain records of work with service users
- negotiate with social service stakeholders
- negotiate with social service users
- support traumatised children
- apply person-centred care
- listen actively
- prepare youths for adulthood
- prevent social problems
- promote social change
- promote inclusion
- conduct interview in social service
- review social service plan
- follow health and safety precautions in social care practices
- have computer literacy
- consider social impact of actions on service users
- apply decision making within social work
- work within communities
- use clinical assessment techniques
Transversal competences
- Educar a pacientes y comunidades sobre hábitos saludables
- Técnicas y métodos de cifrado en la protección de datos de salud
- address problems critically
- manage ethical issues within social services
- apply organisational techniques
- advise on mental health
- demonstrate leadership in social service cases
- manage stress in the work place
- report on social development
- organise social work packages
- plan social service process
- provide support to social services users
- deliver social services in diverse cultural communities
- promote the safeguarding of young people
- promote mental health
- 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
- tolerate stress
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
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