Employee Evaluation

Evaluation of Worker’s Role In reviewing my documentation and my performance throughout this assessment, I came to identify my role as a social services broker, mediator and counselor. In both my assessment and intervention plan I identified, located and connected the client to the resources needed for her case. I tried to keep this in mind when creating tasks to meet her needs, by noting the accessibility of services around where she lives and where she has previously sought out assistance. One of the hardest parts of working on Yamile’s case that I was struggling with was my feeling of being incompetent. I feel like this core ethical principle of competency was one of the issues that both drove and hindered my work because I wanted to
Additionally, another issue that I had to confront was the issue of privacy and confidentially when working with others in the office. I consulted a few other social workers at my agency on Yamile’s general history but I had to be careful that I didn’t share any medical details with them. The issue of this only came up when I was working with another employee involving Yamile’s current family information and benefits.. On one hand, I felt that I should share information about Yamile’s daughter’s pregnancy to her so she should better serve her in acquiring her benefits however, in doing so would break my confidentiality. I resolved not to tell the other social worker and instead encouraged the client Yamile to inform her social adjustment case manager of the pregnancy. I felt like this was the best plan of action that not only upheld the code of ethics principle of “protecting the confidentiality of all information obtained” with respect in regards to the client’s privacy while also contributing to the agency’s competency by proving her with the best services possible (NASW 1996). Both issues allowed me to assess myself
My client’s resourcefulness during this time has pushed me more value the client’s strengths instead for only focusing on the problems at hand; teaching me there needs to be a balance of the two. No matter how tough a situation seems, humans have the resiliency to change their situations. Additionally when I was researching for information for intervention plans, I was struck by how much detail went into creating an effective intervention plan. Because of this, I now understand the importance of knowing why and how these plans are effective to the client. To close, I recognize these skills will be beneficial to me in the future when working with clients with more diverse