Competency Task 3

This week in field was not too busy, but was busy enough to allow me to experience and complete new tasks. Although the tasks completed this week were not very challenging, they allowed me to come in contact with some of the competency skills. Competency skill 9 was re-introduced from last week. I was to report to the Arthurtown site and intern under the supervision of Ms. Julia. Ms. Julia had me continue to sort through employee files; looking for forms any of the teachers may have been missing or needed to update. This task displayed Ms. Julia’s leadership demeanor; making me aware of how I will need to display the same demeanor in my professional career. I understand it will be necessary to stay on top of my responsibilities, as Ms. Julia …show more content…
A social worker is able to display a professional performance by “Demonstrating effective oral and written communication in working with individuals, families, groups, organizations, communities, and colleagues.” On Wednesday, Deirdre had me and another intern count the amount of bread the organization received from the local Publix. Although this may have seemed to be a small task that did not take much effort, it opened a door for me and my colleagues to be able to communicate better in the office. Performing this task together created an opportunity for us to feel comfortable around each other enough to where we will be able to handle caseloads more effectively. This is because I believe in order for colleagues to be able to work effectively and improve their services to clients the individuals need to feel comfortable around each other; not being afraid to express thoughts and opinions. In other words, I saw this more as an icebreaker rather than us just calculating the expenses of the bread for grant …show more content…
The purpose of completing these trainings is for me to understand why certain actions are required in the working environment of Vital connections. Personally I feel this will help me in intervention. Simply because I will understand where a child needs to be mentally and if they are not I will be able to go back and figure out why the child is not up to pare where they need to be in their mental state. I will be able to mark the red flags that may have been ignored during a child’s development and work to bring the child up to speed to the best of my abilities. Overall this was a good week and I feel there is hope in being an intern at Vital Connections. Although there are times where tasks are limited and I have to complete tasks that seem irrelevant to class material, I try and understand why and how these tasks can relate to