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Overview
Community social workers help people in disadvantaged or excluded situations change their circumstances and handle integration problems. They work with communities and specific groups, often linking individual support with local social services.
In job descriptions, look for outreach work, case management, social counselling, crisis intervention, community relations, advocacy, cooperation with schools and local authorities, and records of work with service users.
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Open in Job ExplorerWork Context
Community social worker roles usually combine outreach, case contact and coordination around people facing exclusion or integration barriers. The work can involve meetings with service users, community groups, schools, local authorities and probation officers, with records kept for support plans, referrals and follow-up.
Skills And Specializations
Important strengths include social counselling, case management, crisis intervention, active listening and clear communication with service users. Specialization can develop around community development, street interventions, multicultural work, child wellbeing, support for people living at home or advocacy for service users' rights.
Salary Context
Pay context is shaped by the weight of case responsibility, crisis work, documentation, inter-professional cooperation and decision making in social work. Roles with heavier safeguarding duties, community leadership, stakeholder negotiation or responsibility for social service plans may sit differently from narrower support posts.
Career Paths
Career development can move from direct outreach and service-user support into complex case coordination, community development services, practice guidance or team leadership. Some paths deepen in family support, housing, integration, crisis response or policy advocacy, while others focus on quality standards and social service planning.
Good To Know
When reading vacancies, check which group the role supports, whether the work is outreach-based or office-based, and how much authority the post has over assessments, referrals and plans. Clear adverts name case management, social counselling, service users, partner agencies, records, crisis duties and community priorities.
Editorial note
This guide gives editorial career context, not official labour-market statistics or role-specific salary data.
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O*NET relationships: 1
Social Workers, All Other
21-1029.00
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Alternative labels
Occupation group
social worker (2635.3)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/ce53a1b2-2fec-4d04-9390-47fb3dd525f0 |
|---|---|
| ESCO code | 2635.3.6 |
| ISCO group | 2635 |
| Concept type | Occupation |