# Competences — youth offending team worker

Source: ESCO v1.2.1 occupation-skill relations (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/4bdc4e52-1c9c-4d80-898a-18522d905fee).

## Essential

- **accept own accountability** (skill/competence)
- **address problems critically** (skill/competence)
- **adhere to organisational guidelines** (skill/competence)
- **adolescent psychological development** (knowledge)
- **advocate for social service users** (skill/competence)
- **apply anti-oppressive practices** (skill/competence)
- **apply case management** (skill/competence)
- **apply crisis intervention** (skill/competence)
- **apply decision making within social work** (skill/competence)
- **apply holistic approach within social services** (skill/competence)
- **apply organisational techniques** (skill/competence)
- **apply person-centred care** (skill/competence)
- **apply problem solving in social service** (skill/competence)
- **apply quality standards in social services** (skill/competence)
- **apply socially just working principles** (skill/competence)
- **assess offenders' risk behaviour** (skill/competence)
- **assess social service users' situation** (skill/competence)
- **assess the development of youth** (skill/competence)
- **build helping relationship with social service users** (skill/competence)
- **child protection** (knowledge)
- **communicate professionally with colleagues in other fields** (skill/competence)
- **communicate with social service users** (skill/competence)
- **communicate with youth** (skill/competence)
- **company policies** (knowledge)
- **conduct interview in social service** (skill/competence)
- **consider social impact of actions on service users** (skill/competence)
- **contribute to protecting individuals from harm** (skill/competence)
- **cooperate at inter-professional level** (skill/competence)
- **deliver social services in diverse cultural communities** (skill/competence)
- **demonstrate leadership in social service cases** (skill/competence)
- **develop professional identity in social work** (skill/competence)
- **develop professional network** (skill/competence)
- **empower social service users** (skill/competence)
- **engage with offenders** (skill/competence)
- **follow health and safety precautions in social care practices** (skill/competence)
- **have computer literacy** (skill/competence)
- **involve service users and carers in care planning** (skill/competence)
- **legal requirements in the social sector** (knowledge)
- **listen actively** (skill/competence)
- **maintain records of work with service users** (skill/competence)
- **make legislation transparent for users of social services** (skill/competence)
- **manage ethical issues within social services** (skill/competence)
- **manage social crisis** (skill/competence)
- **manage stress in the work place** (skill/competence)
- **meet standards of practice in social services** (skill/competence)
- **negotiate with social service stakeholders** (skill/competence)
- **negotiate with social service users** (skill/competence)
- **organise social work packages** (skill/competence)
- **plan social service process** (skill/competence)
- **prepare youths for adulthood** (skill/competence)
- **prevent social problems** (skill/competence)
- **promote inclusion** (skill/competence)
- **promote service users' rights** (skill/competence)
- **promote social change** (skill/competence)
- **promote the safeguarding of young people** (skill/competence)
- **protect vulnerable social service users** (skill/competence)
- **provide social counselling** (skill/competence)
- **provide support to social services users** (skill/competence)
- **provide testimony in court hearings** (skill/competence)
- **refer social service users** (skill/competence)
- **relate empathetically** (skill/competence)
- **report on social development** (skill/competence)
- **restorative justice** (knowledge)
- **review social service plan** (skill/competence)
- **social justice** (knowledge)
- **social sciences** (knowledge)
- **social work theory** (knowledge)
- **support the positiveness of youths** (skill/competence)
- **tolerate stress** (skill/competence)
- **undertake continuous professional development in social work** (skill/competence)
- **work in a multicultural environment in health care** (skill/competence)
- **work within communities** (skill/competence)

## Optional

- advise on conflict management (skill/competence)
- cooperate with professionals (skill/competence)
- criminal law (knowledge)