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Social Workers Melbourne Job Opportunities

Even how successful the world is in terms of globalisation and technology, the need for social workers will remain. The world will...




Even how successful the world is in terms of globalisation and technology, the need for social workers will remain. The world will always be in the lookout for passionate, career oriented and passionate social workers. 

There are a lot of opportunities for social workers melbourne, the examples below will let you know how diverse this profession can be.

Family, school and child social workers
They are assigned to work with families and children who are suffering with psychological and social issues in the home, in their communities or at school. They interact with wide range of issues that are related to family, school and children’s life.
These workers can be employed in government programs, schools and foster care agencies.

Medical social workers
They are responsible assisting families and individuals who are facing health and illness related issues. They support their clients work on different issues through health education, counselling, referrals, and coping.
Public workers on the other hand assist communities dealing with complications and illness related to widespread sickness community disaster.
Both of these social workers are employed to provide help in improving the well being of the community.

Substance abuse and mental health social workers
They work with groups, couples, families or individuals, to treat substance abuse and mental illness. Counselling and intense therapy may be used to help these patients get through with their situation.

Military social workers
Their work is to provide help to both members and families of military on facing challenges and obstacles of military life. For example, helping a veteran get through post traumatic stress, or a member who was injured while on service.

Community social workers
They help provide resources and improve conditions for specific communities. This branch of social work focus most of the time on community development and organisation, administration, social action and planning to improve the current condition of the entire community. They work usually with large groups of individuals, different to other branches where they handle only an individual, couple, families or groups of smaller size.

Researchers, Planners, Administrators and policymakers
Researchers, planners, administrators and policymakers are part of a different group of workers. Most of the time they hold only administrative roles and they do not directly work with groups or individuals they are targeting to help. They could lead a group of workers, draft policy, write grants, raise funds and conduct research.

Most of the social workers that are part of this branch already worked previously on other areas of social work, and at present they are using their expertise and experience to enhance the field and promote for change.

Whether private or public institutions need social workers help. Hiring the right professional specific to what they require can be a bit of a challenge, hence working with agencies to provide them with the right professional based on what they need is highly favourable and advantageous. And same with social workers, where they can ask help from these agencies to be deployed to institutions where their expertise is suited.