Community Support worker

[Ruvarashe]

what are the duties of a community support worker?

[Buenchico]

Sorry, but there's no single answer to your question.

Let's try an analogy. I'm currently job-hunting and I see loads of jobs advertised for an 'administrator'. When I look at the details one company will want an 'administrator' to do mainly typing. Another will want an 'administrator' to do general office duties. A third organisation will seek an 'administrator' to take a senior role in running a major international company. Yet another 'administrator' job will turn out to be nothing more than selling double-glazing over the phone. i.e, there's no single definition of what an 'administrator' is. Similarly, there's no single definition of what a 'community support worker' does. Different organisations will use the job title to mean different things.

If the job is advertised by a mental health charity, the role might be similar to that described here:
http://www.together-uk.org/index.asp?id=141

This job description also requires the worker to undertake 'sleeping duties':
http://jobs.telegraph.co.uk/job/212258-permane nt-lancashire-community-support-worker.aspx

Elsewhere it could mean developing local self-help projects overseas:
http://www.charityjob.co.uk/Jobs/135632/Teams- Coordinator-and-Community-Support-Worker

. . or working in the field of domestic violence:
http://womensgrid.freecharity.org.uk/?p=121

. . . or supporting the integration of deaf people into their local communities:

21:02 Mon 12th Jan 2009

[Buenchico]

http://bda.org.uk/Deaf_Community_Support_Worke r-i-191.html

Those are just a few examples of what the job title might encompass. There will be thousands more.

Chris