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Practitioners are defined as workers who provide care and support to people using care services who have responsibility for co-ordinating the implementation of care plans. This may include holding key worker responsibilities.
Getting started
As a practitioner you will be expected to have some previous experience of work and learning in social services, though residential child care and social work assistant posts begin at this level.
Click here to gain information about posts at the preceding level of support worker
Click here to gain an idea of the qualifications it is useful to hold to apply for posts at this level
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Posts at Practitioner level
Posts at this level have various titles and include:
- Practitioner
- Residential child care worker
- School hostel worker
- Worker in residential special school
- Key worker
- Care worker
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- Social Care worker
- Home Care worker
- Day Centre officer
- Community Support worker
- Addictions worker
- Social Work Assistant
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The title of a job does not necessarily indicate the level it is at. Care workers, for example, may be working at the level of support worker or practitioner. You need to check the requirements of a job to determine the level it is at and the experience and qualifications you will need to undertake it. |
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