Degree in Social Work

Admission and exit profile

Admission Profile

Since this is a degree with limited places, the provisions of Royal Decree 1892/2008 of November 14, which regulates the conditions for access to official undergraduate university courses and the admission procedures to Spanish public universities, published in the Official State Gazette (BOE) on November 24, 2008, will apply.

It can be accessed from the social sciences and humanities baccalaureate program, as well as from the social integration and sociocultural animation modules.

Practicing social work involves maintaining ongoing personal relationships in different settings and at different levels. Therefore, it is desirable to possess skills in communication, social interaction, and interaction with people, as well as teamwork and the ability to accept complexity and diversity.

Thus, it could be said that people who wish to study Social Work should have:

  • Concern and curiosity about social issues.
  • Interpersonal relationship skills.
  • Emotional balance.
  • Willingness to work as a team.
  • Creativity.

Graduation Profile

Individuals who obtain a Bachelor's Degree in Social Work will be able to:

  • Working together and assessing the needs and circumstances of individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
  • Plan, implement, review, and evaluate social work practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations, communities, and other professionals.
  • Support people to express their needs, points of view, and circumstances.
  • Act in the prevention and resolution of risk situations.
  • Manage and be responsible, with supervision and support, for one's own practice within the organization.
  • Demonstrate professional competence in the practice of Social Work.

Graduates in Social Work will be able to practice their profession in the following areas:

Social Services

  • Basic and primary social care services. These services are aimed at the general population, utilizing the existing grassroots social services in all municipalities and communities.
  • Permanent care services to address social emergencies.
  • Home care and assistance services.
  • Specialized social services (serving different groups).
  • Homeless care services: open-air care services; shelters and soup kitchens; shelters; training and social and employment integration.
  • Senior care services: social centers and clubs; associations; day care centers; residential centers; home care; volunteering.
  • Child and family care services: prevention, diagnosis, and treatment services for child protection and family support; foster care and adoption; shelters; residential centers; open centers.
  • Women's services: information and counseling services for women; crisis and emergency intervention for women victims of gender-based violence; shelters and assisted living facilities; support for training and social and professional integration; and associations and self-help groups.
  • Services for people with disabilities: counseling, assessment, and resource information services; early intervention services; diagnostic, treatment, and rehabilitation services; training and social and labor integration; associations for affected individuals and their families or sensitized groups; volunteering; subsidized housing; defense and protection of the property of people with disabilities.
  • Reception services for immigrants and/or refugees, with a special focus on unaccompanied foreign minors (UNMI); information and counseling services for the immigrant population; and support and social and employment guidance services.

Health

  • Primary and specialized health care services.
  • Home health and social care services for people with chronic and terminal illnesses.
  • General hospitals. Maternity hospitals. Children's hospitals.
  • Socio-health centers: socio-health care for people with chronic and terminal illnesses; palliative care units.
  • Mental health services: prevention, diagnosis, and treatment services for children and adults; day hospital; day centers; sheltered housing; social and labor integration; acute treatment units for people with illnesses; residential centers for people with chronic illnesses; associations for people with mental illnesses, family members, and other groups; care services for people with dementia and degenerative neurological disorders.
  • Drug addiction care services: prevention; assistance (information, diagnosis, and treatment); therapeutic communities; rehabilitation centers; and social and employment reintegration.
  • In the third sector. A wide range of associations and non-profit organizations that work with people suffering from various illnesses and their families. For example, illnesses that affect social ties and people's quality of life, such as caregivers for dependents; people with cancer; people affected by transplants; people suffering from AIDS; etc.

 Education

  • Formal education: social counseling services within the framework of educational guidance and psychopedagogical teams in non-university education; school and family mediation; priority-care educational centers; special education centers for students with specific educational support needs; associations in the school setting; detection and treatment of truancy and other risk situations.
  • Non-formal education: workshop schools and other initiatives aimed at compensating for socio-educational deficits; early childhood care services, especially for families requiring psychosocial support.

 Justice

  • Juvenile Justice: technical social advisory services for judges; victim support; follow-up programs for open measures; juvenile detention centers; family support; social and labor integration.
  • Family courts: technical advisory services for judges; family mediation.
  • Gender-based violence courts: technical advice for judges; victim risk assessment; attention to the safety of women and their children.
  • Penitentiary institutions: prison social assistance committees; specific treatment programs for certain crimes, drug addiction, sexual assault, etc.; maternal and child care programs for female inmates with children in prison; support for prisoners on parole; social and labor reintegration services for former inmates.

 Companies

  • Social care and benefits for employees of certain companies that offer this service. For example: Iberia; Telefónica; Titsa; Sestife; etc.

 Dwelling

  • Programs for the promotion, study, and allocation of public and/or social housing; community development in newly built or remodeled areas; urban planning.

 Third sector

  • A growing field comprised of non-profit organizations and entities that work with local preventive, care, training, social and employment integration programs to achieve social inclusion. In many cases, international cooperation programs are also developed.

 Training and technical advice

  • Supervising internships for students of Social Work and other related disciplines; continuing education; technical support.
  • Teaching within the framework of different specialties in Vocational Training.

Other areas of intervention of social workers

There are also other spaces, which, unlike those described above, some of which can be considered new, to the extent that they are recognized as such by the profession itself.

  • Strategic Planning of Welfare Services.
  • Promotion, management, and evaluation of equal opportunity policies and plans.
  • External evaluation of programs and services.
  • Validation of good practices in the development of social programs and services.
  • Organizational analysis and development.
  • Advice on the management of social welfare policies.
  • Social marketing.
  • Communication and image in relation to social issues.
  • Occupational risk prevention.
  • Social expertise.
  • Management and direction of social services and facilities.