Essential skills: It is critical that the candidate demonstrate the ability to: Apply principles of strengths-based practice when working with clients Identify, respect and foster client strengths Accept client's own world view Reflect positive attitudes about people's dignity, capacities, rights, uniqueness and commonalities Work consultatively and collaboratively with clients to identify realistic future goals and visions and to effect changes toward these Elicit client strengths to put towards possibilities for change Motivate supervisees to effect changes in their lives through the fostering of their strengths Work constructively to complement people's existing strengths and assist them with solution building approaches rather than 'problem solving' approaches Acknowledge and address power imbalances between workers, organisations and clients Recognise and address dynamics inherent in organisation practices and structures that are incongruent with strengths-based principles and processes Use open, honest, effective and appropriate communication which is at all times respectful and promotes a partnership approach to working with clients based on consultation, collaboration and mutual learning Identify and address social, personal, cultural and structural constraints to people's growth Identify and address potential barriers to accessing programs and achieving identified outcomes including access to child care, transport, cultural, linguistic, religious, disability, language, literacy and numeracy or learning differences Recognise and remain within bounds of own practice continued ... |