Description
Provide community based social services to specific groups, individuals or families by assessing their needs, collaborating with appropriate organisations and authorities and facilitating seminars and group workshops that improve their well-being in the local area.
Alternative labels
provide community-based social services
provide services to specific groups in communities
provide community development service
Skill type
skill/competence
Skill reusability level
cross-sector
Relationships with occupations
Essential skill
Provide community development services is an essential skill of the following occupations:
Community social worker: Community social workers help people in disadvantage or excluded from society to change their situation and handle their integration problems. They work with communities focusing on specific groups. Community social workers liaise closely with social workers, schools, local authorities and probation officers representing people before policy makers at local and national level.
Optional skill
Provide community development services is optional for these occupations. This means knowing this skill may be an asset for career advancement if you are in one of these occupations.
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 individuals, families, groups, organisations and communities in order to provide various forms of therapy and counselling, group work, and community work. Social workers guide people to use services to claim benefits, access community resources, find jobs and training, obtain legal advice or deal with other local authority departments.
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