I hold the following Job Description and have been working for the past 6 months withour prior training. What training program can you fix for me/us. - Casework interventions with families (receiving and investigating complaints, problems and proposing solutions); - Conducting counseling sessions with couples and families; - Carrying out home visits (casework, illness, new babies, delinquency, etc.); - Organizing educative talks to workers and their families on health and other social issues ; - Visiting patients in hospitals; - Writing reports of activities and proposing ways of improving services; - Participate in activities of SIES and quality
What training do you need for casework, counselling, home visits? - Forum
RE: What training do you need for casework, counselling, home visits?
16/10/2014 10:30
Course Adviser
Hi Bertha,
thank you for posting this question.
I have to say that I am a little bit worried when you say that you have been working for 6 months without training, since it appears that you work in a very challenging and high stress role in which training is definitely helpful, if not necessary.
May I ask which qualifications you currently hold? In the UK, social workers (and it sounds from your job description that this probably the title you have) are required to have a 3-year undergraduate or 2-year postgraduate degree approved by the Health & Care Professions Council in order to practice as social workers. For other related but distinct roles - such as Counsellor or Drug and Alcohol Worker - volunteering experience is often highly valued and it is not actually obligatory to hold any specific qualifications, but it is definitely useful.
This could be a QCF-recognised qualification in Counselling, Substance Abuse or perhaps even Health & Social Care more broadly, depeding on how your time is split between the various responsibilities you outlined below, and how you see you role developing in the future.
I hope your employer responds positively to your desire to train!
If you have more questions, do come back and post them here.
Best regards,
Findcourses.co.uk Team
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