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An offer from the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training

Your profession: Social education worker, social worker (m/f)

Professional activities

Social education workers and social workers focus on preventing, overcoming and resolving social problems. They advise and look after individual persons, families or specific groups of people in difficult situations.

Fields of work

Social education workers and social workers work

  • in homes for young people, children and the elderly
  • at daycare centres and care homes for people with disabilities
  • in kindergartens and day nurseries, at schools
  • at family and addiction advisory bodies, in care guidance institutions, at institutions for the homeless and at institutions for refugees
  • for outpatient social services
  • at social services, health and youth welfare authorities
  • in prisons and in social reintegration facilities
  • in self-help groups

The professional profiles are based on information from berufenet at the Federal Employment Agency and BIBB (Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training).