Study Guide

The Bachelor of Social Services
-has adopted the values and ethical principles of the social field and is committed to implement them in practice
- is capable of the ethical reflection required in professions within social services
- is able to take each client's unique quality into consideration and to work in situations which involve conflicting values
- promotes equality and tolerance and strives to prevent marginalisation at social, community and individual level

The Bachelor of Social Services
-recognises the meaning of his or her values and conception of the human being for the work with clients and client groups
- is capable of creating an interactive professional relationship with clients that supports client engagement
- understands clients'needs and knows how to support and strengthen the clients' resources in different life situations and stages of growth and development
-is capable of applying and evaluating a variety of work methods and theoretical approaches to client work
- supports and counsels different clients and client groups in their everyday life
- knows how to evaluate and describe the stages of the client process and to develop his or her work based on the description

The Bachelor of Social Services
- knows the service provision systems which support welfare and social security and the relevant legislation and data systems; knows how to apply legislation and data systems in practise
- knows how to predict and analyse changes in the welfare services and is able to participate in providing and developing the services
- is capable of assessing clients’ needs for services in different life situations and is familiar with case management and with the foundation and methods of preventive work
- can act as an expert of social services in multidisciplinary teams and networks and promote the function of clients’ safety nets

The Bachelor of Social Services
- knows how to analyse structures and processes which produce inequality and disadvantage regionally, nationally or internationally
- is capable of using various means of community social work, means of influencing decision-making in society and means of communication.
- is able to support citizens' engagement and, together with clients and other stakeholders, influence decision-making

The Bachelor of Social Services
-has adopted a reflection, enquiry and development-oriented approach to work
- has practically oriented research competence and is able to produce new knowledge
- knows how to plan, implement, evaluate and report on development projects in the field of social services

The Bachelor of Social Services
- knows the basic principles of financial and personnel administration
- is capable of working as an immediate superior in a work community
- is able to develop professional competence, work communities and service processes in the social field
- is capable of making decisions in unpredictable settings
- has basic qualifications for working as an independent entrepreneur in the field

The graduating student recognises the strengths and development areas of their competence and learning methods, and they utilise the opportunities communities and digitalisation provide in their learning.
- Assesses and develops their competence and learning methods in different learning environments.
- Is able to acquire, critically assess and appropriately apply the national and
international knowledge base and practices of their field.
- Also takes responsibility for group learning and sharing what has been learned.

The graduating student has versatile working life skills and is able to operate in work communities of their field.
- Is able to work constructively in a work community and promotes their own and their work community’s well-be-ing.
- Is able to act professionally in communication and interaction situations at a workplace.
- Utilises the opportunities offered by technology and digitalisation in their work.
- Understands the complexity of chang-ing working life and their own resilience in changing working life situations.
- Has capabilities for an entrepreneurial approach.

The graduating student adheres to the ethical principles and values of their field of profession, taking the principles of equality and non-dis-crimination into account.
- Is able to take responsibility for their own actions and their consequences and reflects on them in accordance with the ethical principles and values of their field.
- Takes others into account and pro-motes equality and non-discrimina-tion.
- Take into account the realisation of di-versity and accessibility in their ac-tions.
- Understands the principles of respon-sible conduct of research and adheres to them.
- Is able to influence society based on ethical values.

The graduating student is familiar with the prin-ciples of sustainable development, promotes their implementation and acts responsibly as a professional and a member of society.
- Is able to use information related to their field in finding, implementing and establishing sustainable solutions and operating models.
- Understands sustainability challenges, their interdependencies and the vari-ous aspects of issues and problems.

The graduating student is able to operate in multicultural and international operating environments and networks.
- Is familiar with the impacts of their cultural background on their activities and is able to develop operating methods that take multiculturalism into account in their work community.
- Is able to monitor and utilise the inter-national development of their field in their work.
- Is able to communicate internationally in their work tasks.

The graduating student is able to develop solu-tions that anticipate the future of their own field, applying existing knowledge and research and development methods.
- Solves problem situations creatively and reforms operating methods to-gether with others.
- Is able to work in projects in coopera-tion with actors of different fields.
- Is able to apply existing knowledge in the field in development and utilises re-search and development methods.
- Is able to seek customer-oriented, sus-tainable and economically viable solu-tions, anticipating the future of their field.

• is able to act entrepreneurially in working life
• is able to recognise business opportunities
• understands the interactions between a company and its operating environment
• understands the principles of business profitability
• is able to analyse the operations and risks of a business