Monday, April 2, 2012

How to Find a Job in Childrens Social Care

By Ruth Williams


Reports issued by the government recently, are working to improve social care recruitment. How can you pursue a Children's Services career while taking advantage of the current climate?

The contemporary practice programs of the governing body were started in the United Kingdom in 2008, including eleven social work remodeling plans designed to better the existing social care service department. These programs have been helpful in looking into creating and developing new positions in the field of social care, and investing in hiring practices.

So how does this affect you? Well, with further investment and overall service revision come increased opportunities for social care service professionals, including those with expertise in Children's Services.

Children's Services is a diverse area of social care, full of potential opportunities for professionals with a range of skills and experience. When you are looking toward social care recruitment within Children's Services, you can go down any one of several paths, such as:

Exercising prevention and intervening early on

Protecting children

Kids with challenges to mental abilities

Kids who have physical health concerns

Kids that live in care

Kids who have left care recently.

Kids living within residential housing

It all depends upon your particular area of interest or expertise. Skills from your current social care role may be easily transfered from that of your position, or of one that was previously held within the social sector.

However, if you are new to social care or are considering a change in career, you need to consider some of the necessary personal and professional skills to become a Children's Services social worker.

In the career of social care recruitment a job in children's services can require you to work with young people of various ages of growth, from infants to pre-teens. Whichever age group you work with, you are likely to be interacting with young people who are vulnerable in some way, perhaps as a result of past experiences or because they are wholly or partly dependent upon the social care system.

Working with vulnerable children requires compassion, patience, open-mindedness and dedication. It can be quite a challenge to work with kids who have been traumatized by neglect or abuse in or outside their homes. The potential for harmful behaviour or complex needs in some of these children is something worth taking into consideration before you pursue a career in the Children's Services field.

You may have developed certain skills because of experiences in day-to-day living and caring for someone you love, rather than in professional training However, a career in Children's Services also requires certain qualifications. If you want to be employed as a social worker in the UK (United Kingdom) you have to be approved by the GSCC (General Social Care Council), which means you have earned a qualifying degree in social care from an institution approved by GSCC. You may also be required to have certain educational qualifications, such as GCSEs, depending upon the hiring body or organisation, and an up-to-date criminal record check from the Criminal Records Bureau.




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