Social instructor

Social educators carry out socio-educational actions aimed at people suffering from social, cultural or personal issues that hinder their integration into the community. He/she performs a pedagogical task devoted to the generation of educational contexts and mediating and training actions to facilitate cultural and social promotion, understood as an opening to new possibilities for the acquisition of cultural assets which broaden the person's educational, work, leisure and social participation perspectives.

For this reason, these professionals may cater to a wide diversity of groups and intervene in different areas: education in leisure, day-care or residential services, home care, social health, civic and community action, culture, justice, social services, social and labour Integration, awareness, networks and support for entities, international cooperation, etc, during the development of their tasks.

• Perform educational tasks for people at risk or with social issues.
  Diagnose learning criteria and needs.
  Produce, analyse and assess training programmes and plans.
  Produce or adapt teaching material and resources.
  Optimise learning and interpersonal communication strategies.
  Select, adapt or create data collection tools.
  Compile and record information about the process and the results of the education and care process. Analyse and assess intervention-interaction processes.
  Subsequently keep track of the results and impact of the training actions.
• Guide and provide support to people in risk situations or with social issues.
  Diangose guidance and advice criteria and needs.
  Analyse and assess guidance programmes and actions.
  Design and adapt guidance programmes.
  Apply guidance programmes.
  Help people to make decisions.
  Provide advice, guidance and support to groups and individuals.
  Select, adapt or create data collection tools.
  Analyse and assess intervention-interaction processes.
  Integrate guidance actions and programmes as part of training and activities processes.
  Subsequently keep track of the results and impact of the guidance actions.
  Refer situations or cases that require intervention outside their scope to other professionals and keep track of these.
• Lead socio-cultural activities.
  Diagnose activity leading and participation criteria and needs.
  Analyse and assess socio-cultural activity programmes.
  Plan and schedule activities.
  Promote ad channel interaction between the groups in a territory or community.
  Foster horizontal relationships.
  Stimulate and promote self-organisation among groups.
  Help groups and communities to believe and execute projects independently.
  Subsequently keep track of the results and impact of activities.
  Select, adapt or create data collection tools.
  Promote social participation and criticism.
• Organise and manage the operations of the entity or structure responsible for providing the services (public service, cultural centre, company,...).
  Identify and use resources in the community.
  Contact and liaise with other organisations and institutions.
  Outline the institutional objectives targeted by the centre.
  Optimise the structures available.
  Seek new resources to adapt these structures to the objectives.
  Contribute to promoting the system of relationships both within and outside the centre, guided by the values the centre wishes to foster.
  Help to build up a common institutional climate and culture.
  Help to develop the organisational structure.
  Assess the organisational units within which they work.

Regulated training and graduates

• Professional Training Course(s) in the field of Socio-cultural and Community Services - Advanced Level: Social Integration
• Professional Training Course(s) in the field of Socio-cultural and Community Services - Advanced Level:
• Grau: Educació social

Complementary training

Analytical thought: Level 2

Empathy: Level 3

Communication: Level 2

Flexibility and change management: Level 2

Team work and cooperation: Level 2

Training

People who work in the field of training are interested in transmitting knowledge, responsibilities and values through learning techniques and educational processes, with a view to helping others develop their skills and abilities. Activities that are specific to this field include prior assessment of the student's characteristics and needs, design of the teaching materials, as well as monitoring and support during the learning process.

Social community worker

Individuals related to the social/community field have an interest in working to improve people's social well-being and quality of life, as well as enhance their integration into their social, family and/or work environment. The professional activities that are common in this field include providing special support and aid to people at risk of social exclusion, designing programmes and implementing resources for the social and cultural stimulation of an area, and acting as mediators for conflict resolution in family, social or interpersonal environments. These activities involve constant interaction with people in order to improve their psychological and social well-being.

Customer service

Direct and personal interaction with people and relating to the public are highly-motivating activities for individuals who have an interest in the field of customer service. A focus on people and on satisfying customers' needs is key in the occupations included in this field. These jobs entail the need to know suitable techniques for attending to the public and being able to give appropriate service that is tailored to their needs and expectations. Good examples are activities which offer assistance and guidance during functions, trips or at facilities, and those which provide advice in relation to products and services.

Language and social cohesion advisors

Social integration technician

Sociocultural activities coordinator

Migration advisor

Job placement specialist

• Work hours

  Full-time is the norm, although part-time hours do exist on a minority basis.

• Salary

  The salary ranges from around 13,000 to 21,035.40 euros per annum gross. Salaries are usually higher in the public sector than in the private one.

• Professional category

  Technician