Role of the Social Worker

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CT299 understanding the role of the Social worker 1.1 The difference between a working relationship and personal relationship is that a working relationship is different because of boundaries, professional codes of conduct, employer policies and procedures. In your working relationship you will be friendly, have a different approach although treat individuals with equality, you know your role and responsibility and you would not share personal information as you would with friends. Also a working relationship has no emotional attachment and is primarily based around your job, where as personal relationships do have an emotional attachment. 1.2 The Different working relationships in social care setting would come into 3 types e.g. policy making, administrative, and the hands on staff. The working relationship in social care starts with the policy making, 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 procedures for action and reporting back that keep in line with essential standards., And then you get the Hands on staff who will implement these procedures in their daily job roles. 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. If you haven’t been trained to do it – then don’t do it! 2.2 Agreed ways of working are the ways to carry out everyday aspects of work that have been subjected to risk
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