This course prepares people for careers typically found in the sectors below. You can explore information relating to sectors by clicking on the titles below.
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Sample Careers
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Social care is a profession characterised by working in partnership with people who experience marginalisation, or disadvantage, or who have special needs.
Study subjects such as Applied Social Studies, Psychoogy, Sociology, Legal issues in social care, Economics and professional work experience.
Careers or Further Progression...
There are various career options within Social Care. These include working with:
children and adolescents in residential childcare;
people with learning or physical disabilities;
the homeless;
people with alcohol or drug dependency;
families in the community;
older people;
recent emigrants to Ireland;
the state sector (for example the Departments of Health and Children, Education and Science, and Equality and Law Reform);
the voluntary sector, (which includes organisations like Bernardos and the Brothers of Charity, many of which are fully or partially funded by the government).
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