Role of Social Worker

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Understand the Role of the Social Worker 1.1 Explain how a working relationship is different from a personal relationship. A working relationship is different because of boundaries, professional codes of conduct, employer policies and procedures. In your working relationship you would be friendly have a different approach treat with equality you would know your role and responsibility you would not share personal information as you would with friends. Also a working relationship as no emotional attachment and is primary based around your job, where as personal relationship as an emotional attachment due having family and personal friends and is not work related. 1.2 Describe different working relationships in Social care settings The Different working relationships in health and social care setting would come into 3 types e.g. policy making, administrative,and the hands on staff, the working relationship in health and social care starts with the policy making has they have to know everything from the law to the public sector and they will delegate the job of implementing decisions to the administration team ,who then will work out the correct forms charts procedures for action and reporting back, And the you get the Hands on staff who will implement these procedures in their daily jobs. 2.1 Describe why it is important to adhere to the scope of your job role It is important to adhere to the scope of your job role as this sets out boundaries in your job role, enables you to know your role and responsibility, knowing your own level of competence and skills, to know your job role, if someone asked you to do another role it wouldn’t be ok if you carried out the tasks because you aren't trained for it and you could injury yourself or others around you. 2.2 Outline what is meant by agreed ways of working. Agreed ways of working is working within the rules
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