24 Feb Advanced Human Services Professional Practitioner Roles and Career Paths

It is never too early to begin thinking about your career path. Whether you are already working in the human services profession and interested in advancing your career or are new to the profession, it is important to spend some time thinking about the types of human services jobs you would like to pursue. Over the past several weeks, you have completed assessments to learn more about yourself. For this Assignment, you use that self-knowledge to determine your capacity to serve in a leadership position in which you will be supervising human services practitioners performing the roles you learned about in this course and performing some of the roles yourself. You will also identify two leadership positions of interest to you and the knowledge areas, skills, and abilities you would need to develop to work in these positions.

Resources

Be sure to review the Learning Resources before completing this activity. Click the weekly resources link to access the resources.

WEEKLY RESOURCES

To Prepare

· Reflect on the results of your conflict management, personality, and human services assessments from the previous weeks.

· Based on this information, consider your capacity to serve in a leadership position in which you will be supervising human services practitioners performing the roles you learned about in this course and performing some of the roles yourself.

· Use the internet to search for job postings for your two leadership positions of interest to you. Consider what knowledge areas, skills, and abilities you would need to develop to work in these positions.

By Day 7

Submit a 2- to 3-page paper that addresses the following:

· In a paragraph or less, synthesize the results of your conflict management, personality, and human services assessments from previous weeks.

· Based on this information, assess your capacity to serve in a leadership position in which you will be supervising human services practitioners performing the roles you learned about in this course and performing some of the roles yourself.

· Provide links to two human services leadership job postings of interest to you.

· Explain why the jobs interest you and what additional knowledge areas, skills, and abilities you would need to develop to be a good candidate for those jobs.

REFERENCES/RESOURCES

· Schram, B., Mandell, B.R., Dann, P.L., & Peterson, L. (2020). An introduction to human services: Policy and practice (9th ed.). Pearson.

· Chapter 7, “Working with Diversity” (pp. 160–206)

· Chapter 8, “Interviewing” (pp. 207–236)

· Chapter 9, “Direct Strategies: Working with People One-on–One” (pp. 237–254)

· Chapter 10, “Working with Groups” (255–276)

· Chapter 11, “Planning a Human Service Program” (pp. 277–298)

· Chapter 12, “Indirect Strategies: Organizing for Change” (pp. 299–322)

· Penn, S., & Baartmans, H. (2018). A phenomenological study on meaningful professional experiences for human services professionals.Links to an external site. Journal of Human Services, 38(1), 35–44.