Promote the safeguarding of young people

Description

Understand safeguarding and what should be done in cases of actual or potential harm or abuse.

Occupations requiring this skill

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Skill demand overview
  • Essential in 21 occupations
  • Optional in 27 occupations
  • Total: 48 occupations
  • Most common in: ISCO major group 2 (Professionals)

Essential for

  • Child care social worker
    Child care social workers provide social services to children and their families in order to improve their social and psychological functioning. They aim to maximize family's well-…
  • Consultant social worker
    Consultant social workers deliver high quality social work services by contributing to the development and improvement of social work and social care practice. They contribute to p…
  • Education welfare officer
    Education welfare officers address the social and psychological well-being of students. They counsel students concerning their personal issues that affect their school behaviour, p…
  • Foster care support worker
    Foster care support workers assist and support mentally or physically abused children to be legally separated from their parents. They help them to recover by placing them in appro…
  • Child welfare worker
    Child welfare workers provide early intervention and support to children and their families in order to improve their social and psychological functioning. They aim to maximise the…
  • Child day care worker
    Child day care workers provide social services to children and their families in order to improve their social and psychological functioning. They aim to maximise family's well-bei…
  • Youth offending team worker
    Youth offending team workers support young offenders by preventing them from reoffending, counselling them for behavioural changes, referring them to agencies that provide housing,…
  • Residential childcare worker
    Residential childcare workers counsel and support children who have physical or mental disabilities. They monitor their progress and provide them with care in a positive living env…
  • Child care coordinator
    Child care coordinators organise child care services, activities and events after the school hours and during school hoildays. They assist in the development of children by impleme…
  • Mental health support worker
    Mental health support workers assist and provide treatment to people with mental, emotional, or substance abuse problems. They focus on personalised cases and monitor their clients…
  • Drug and alcohol addiction counsellor
    Drug and alcohol addiction counsellors provide assistance and counselling to individuals and families dealing with drug and alcohol addictions, monitoring their progress, advocatin…
  • Residential home young people care worker
    Residential home young people care workers provide assistance and support to young people who face complex emotional needs expressed in challenging behaviours. They support youn…
  • Family social worker
    Family social workers provide emotional and practical help and advice to families that go through difficulties such as addictions, disabilities, sickness, imprisoned parents, marit…
  • Mental health social worker
    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…
  • Youth programme director
    Youth programme directors develop and implement programmes and policies to improve and ensure youths' well-being. They facilitate communication with and between educational, recrea…
  • Migrant social worker
    Migrant social workers provide advice to migrants in order to guide them through the necessary steps of integration, namely living and working in a foreign country. They explain el…
  • Youth worker
    Youth workers assist and counsel young people helping them to reach their full potential by facilitating their personal, social and educational growth. They are also involved in ma…
  • Sexual violence counsellor
    Sexual violence counsellors provide support services, crisis care services and counselling to women and adolescents who have been directly or indirectly exposed to sexual assault a…
  • Substance misuse worker
    Substance misuse workers provide assistance and counselling to people with substance abuse problems. They monitor their progress, advocate for them, and performe crisis interventio…
  • Social pedagogue
    Social pedagogues provide care, support, and education to children and young persons with different backgrounds or capabilities. They develop educational processes for young person…
  • Child day care centre manager
    Child day care centre managers provide social services to children and their families. They supervise and support child care workers and manage the childcare facilities. Child day …

Optional for

  • Primary school teaching assistant
    Primary school teaching assistants provide instructional and practical support to primary school teachers. They reinforce instruction with students in need of extra attention and p…
  • Special educational needs teacher secondary school
    Special educational needs teachers at secondary schools provide specially designed instruction to students with a variety of disabilities on a secondary school level and ensure the…
  • Judge
    Judges preside over, review and handle court cases, hearings, appeals, and trials. They ensure that court procedures conform to conventional legal processes and review evidence and…
  • Teacher of talented and gifted students
    Talented and gifted student coordinators ensure suitable education is provided to talented and gifted students, commonly children and young adults, on various levels. They oversee …
  • Learning mentor
    Learning mentors support underperforming students both inside and outside of the classroom in order to increase their academic success. They assist students experiencing (multiple)…
  • Social worker
    Social workers are practice-based professionals who promote social change and development, social cohesion, and the empowerment and liberation of people. They interact with individ…
  • Family support worker
    Family support workers provide emotional and practical help and advice to families that go through difficulties such as addictions, disabilities, sickness, imprisoned parents, mari…
  • Early years teacher
    Early years teachers instruct students, primarily young children aged 3 to 6, in basic subjects and creative play to develop their social and intellectual skills in an informal way…
  • Social counsellor
    Social counsellors provide support and guidance to individuals in the social work area, to help them solve specific problems in their personal life. It involves addressing personal…
  • Clinical social worker
    Clinical social workers provide therapy, counselling, and intervention services to clients. They treat clients with personal struggles, namely mental illness, addiction, and abuse,…
  • Homelessness worker
    Homelessness workers provide on-the-spot assistance, counselling and advice to people who have housing problems or live on the streets. They present them with services available to…
  • Hospital social worker
    Hospital social workers provide counselling to patients and their families helping them to better cope with the illness, the emotions surrounding diagnosis, and with social and fin…
  • Crisis situation social worker
    Crisis situation social workers provide emergency support and assistance to persons with physical or mental disorders by addressing their distress, impairment, and instability. The…
  • Montessori school teacher
    Montessori school teachers educate students using approaches that reflect the Montessori philosophy and principles developed by Dr. Maria Montessori, an Italian physician and educa…
  • Secondary school teaching assistant
    Secondary school teaching assistants provide various support services to secondary school teachers such as instructional and practical support. They help with the preparation of le…
  • Freinet school teacher
    Freinet school teachers educate students using approaches that reflect the Freinet philosophy and principles developed by Célestin Freinet, a French pedagogue and educational refor…
  • Social care worker
    Social care workers provide support and help people with care services. They help people to live full and valued lives in the community. They assist babies, young children, adolesc…
  • Victim support officer
    Victim support officers provide assistance and counselling to people who were victim of or have witnessed crimes such as sexual assault, domestic abuse or anti-social behaviour. Th…
  • Special educational needs teacher
    A Special Educational Needs Teacher is an educator who specializes in supporting students with a wide range of learning, physical, and emotional disabilities. SEN Teachers provide …
  • Criminal justice social worker
    Criminal justice social workers tackle criminal behaviour and reduce risk of reoffending by promoting and establishing programs to prevent crime within communities. They assist in …
  • Early years special educational needs teacher
    Early years special educational needs teachers provide specially designed instruction to students with a variety of disabilities on a kindergarten level and ensure they reach their…
  • Social services manager
    Social services managers have the responsibility for strategic and operational leadership and management of staff teams and resources within and or across social services. They are…
  • Adult community care worker
    Adult community care workers perform assessment and care management of communities of adults who live with physical impairments or convalescing states. They aim to improve their li…
  • Rehabilitation support worker
    Rehabilitation support workers provide counselling to individuals dealing with birth defects or with major consequences caused by diseases, accidents, and burnouts. They help them …
  • Youth centre manager
    Youth centre managers plan and supervise the operations of children and youth homes which provide care and counselling services. They assess the needs for youths in the community, …
  • Special educational needs teacher primary school
    Special educational needs teachers at primary schools provide specially-designed instruction to students with a variety of disabilities on a primary school level and ensure they re…
  • Community development social worker
    Community development social workers support individuals, families, and groups in socially or financially deprived areas. They provide leadership and bring local people together to…

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