该小组履行以下部分或全部职责：

• 单独、家庭或小组访谈客户，评估他们的情况和问题，并确定所需的服务类型
• 提供咨询和治疗，以帮助客户发展技能来处理和解决他们的社会和个人问题
• 为客户制定援助计划，包括转介到提供经济援助、法律援助、住房、医疗和其他服务的机构
• 调查虐待或忽视儿童的案件，并在必要时采取授权的保护措施
• 作为跨学科专业团队的成员与客户群体合作
• 充当社区客户群体的倡导者，游说解决直接影响客户群体的问题，并制定预防和干预计划以满足社区需求
• 制定社会政策立法或提供建议，进行社会研究并协助社区发展
• 提供调解服务和社会心理评估
• 评估咨询和社会计划的有效性
• 可以就咨询服务、问题和方法向专业人士或团体提供公共教育和咨询
• 可以监督其他社会工作者。

• 纽芬兰和拉布拉多、新斯科舍、爱德华王子岛、新不伦瑞克、魁北克、安大略、曼尼托巴、萨斯喀彻温、不列颠哥伦比亚、西北地区和努纳武特需要社会工作学士学位。
• 在艾伯塔省，需要社会工作学士学位或文凭。
• 通常需要有监督的实践经验。
• 可能需要成功完成省级笔试和口试。
• 在纽芬兰和拉布拉多、新斯科舍、爱德华王子岛、新不伦瑞克、魁北克、安大略、艾伯塔和不列颠哥伦比亚，必须在省级管理机构注册才能作为社会工作者执业。
• “社会工作者”和“注册社会工作者”头衔的使用在所有省份都受到监管。
• 通常需要成为省社会工作者协会的会员。

• 社会工作者可能专注于儿童福利、家庭服务、矫正、老年学或成瘾等实践领域。

• 教育顾问 ( 41320)
• 咨询和相关专业治疗的治疗师（41301）
• 社会、社区和惩教服务经理（40030）
• 社会和社区服务工作者（42201）

This group performs some or all of the following duties:

• Interview clients individually, in families, or in groups, to assess their situation and problems and determine the types of services required
• Provide counsel and therapy to assist clients in developing skills to deal with and resolve their social and personal problems
• Plan programs of assistance for clients including referral to agencies that provide financial assistance, legal aid, housing, medical treatment and other services
• Investigate cases of child abuse or neglect and take authorized protective action when necessary
• Serve as members on interdisciplinary teams of professionals working with client groups
• Act as advocates for client groups in the community, lobby for solutions to problems directly affecting client groups and develop prevention and intervention programs to meet community needs
• Develop or advise on social policy legislation, conduct social research and assist in community development
• Provide mediation services and psychosocial assessments
• Evaluate the effectiveness of counselling and social programs
• May provide public education and consultation to professionals or groups regarding counselling services, issues and methods
• May supervise other social workers.

• A bachelor's degree in social work is required in Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.
• In Alberta, a bachelor's degree or diploma in social work is required.
• Supervised practical experience is usually required.
• Successful completion of provincial written and oral examinations may be required.
• Registration with a provincial governing body is mandatory to practise as a social worker in Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia.
• Use of the titles "Social Worker" and "Registered Social Worker" is regulated in all provinces.
• Membership in a provincial association of social workers is usually required.

• Social workers may specialize in fields of practice such as child welfare, family services, corrections, gerontology or addictions.

• Educational counsellors (41320)
• Therapists in counselling and related specialized therapies (41301)
• Managers in social, community and correctional services (40030)
• Social and community service workers (42201)