What can I do with a degree in Social Work?
Fields of Employment
Public Welfare
- Administration and Planning
- Case Management
- Program Evaluation
- Policy Development
- Reserach
Criminal Justice/Corrections
- Counselling/Therapy
- Rehabilitation
- Probation & Parole
- Youth Services
- Victim Assistance
- Drug Prevention
School Social Work
- Counselling
- Case Management
- Pupil Personnel Services
- Student Advocacy
- Instruction
- Assessment
- Referral
Clinical
- Therapy
- Assessment
- Case Management
Administration
- Management
- Policy Development
- Planning
- Supervision
- Fundraising
- Budgeting
- Grant Writing
Research & Education
- Research & Grant Writing
- Teaching
- Supervision
Vocational
- Counselling
- Education
- Wellness Promotion
- Organisational Development
- Assessment
- Human Resources
Healthcare
- Case Management
- Counselling
- Prevention and Education
- Program Development
- Administration
- Research
- Child Life Specialists
- Hospice Care
Community Organisation
- Program and Community Development
- Advocacy
- Politics
- Education
Gerontology
- Advocacy/Intervention
- Counselling
- Case Management
- Programming
- Public Policy
- Administration
Child Welfare
- Case Management
- Advocacy
- Intervention
- Supervision
Developmental Disabilities
- Case Management
- Program Planning and Evaluation
- Reseach
- Policy Development
International Social Work
- Humanitarian Services
- Advocacy
- Education
- Wellness Promotion
- Development: Economic and Community
- Disaster/Disease Relief
- Volunteer Coordination
- Program Administration
- Clinical Practice
- Policy Development
- Research
Employers
- Administrative agencies
- Adoption agencies
- Advocacy organisations
- Assisted living
- Child welfare departments
- Community mental health centres
- Community residential homes
- Courts
- Drug/Alcohol rehabilitation centres
- Early intervention programs
- Employee assistance programs
- Family service agencies
- Foster care organisations
- Group homes
- Health maintenance organization
- Hospice
- Hospitals
- International non-governmental organizations (NGO’s)
- Large corporations
- Local, state and federal government
- Medical facilities
- Nursing homes
- Not for profit organisations
- Planning
- Police departments
- Prisons and correctional facilities
- Private practice
- Private treatment facilities
- Probation offices
- Psychiatric hospitals
- Public health programs
- Public welfare agencies
- Research institutes
- Schools
- Social service agencies
- State legislatures
- State mental health departments
- Universities
- Victim services organisations
Further Information and Strategies
- Undertake internships, work experience and vacation work during your studies.
- A Master’s degree in Social Work is necessary to provide therapy and for advancement to supervisory or administrative positions.
- A PhD in Social Work is usually required for positions in teaching, research and administration. Postgraduate qualifications are desirable for some clinical positions and private practice.
- Join professional associations (e.g. Australian Association of Social Workers) as a student member to gain knowledge about the profession.
