Specialist for social services
Specialist for social services is an advanced training occupation . Specialists for social services work in the middle management of companies with social responsibilities and act from the administration . They are to be distinguished from home and family carers , who tend to provide on-site care.
education
The training as business administrator for Social Services is a three-year training, which has a very good high-school diploma or high school, and completed training as an educator , retirement / nursing sets, social assistant, child care, family caregiver or a program of at least four semesters in the social field ahead. The training can be funded by the Advancement Training Assistance Act; in rare cases, the Federal Employment Agency grants funding.
The training encompasses the general subjects: German, English, politics and religion / ethics and as an extra-occupational subject: professional studies. Vocational subjects include: social education , curative education , general education , child and youth care, pediatric care, anatomy , pathology, nursing , nutritional science , economics , methods of social care , psychiatry , psychology , sociology , games and design, rhythm and movement, music, Law (in particular SGB V, VIII, IX, XI, XII), IT, administration and organization.
Application area
The qualifications conveyed cover all tasks in middle management in companies with social tasks. Examples of areas of application are the assistance of nursing management or facility management, management of departments or groups, independent and innovative work in quality management as well as nursing activities and the social care of addicted, socially or economically deprived, sick, disabled or at risk of disability. Further areas of application open up in all-day schools as social care support, in accompaniment on wards of forensic psychiatry, correctional facilities and psychiatric institutions .
The areas of application resulting from this broad spectrum include:
- Collaboration in social services / case management
- the hiring, training and management of employees
- Team leader / group leader
- Collaboration in the creation and implementation of new concepts
- Administrative and administrative tasks
- Occupational therapeutic tasks
- Participation in basic care and in parts of treatment care
- consultation
- Assisted living
- Women, youth and handicapped work