AS COMPETÊNCIAS E ATRIBUIÇÕES PRIVATIVAS DO ASSISTENTE SOCIAL

REFLEXÕES A PARTIR DAS EXPERIÊNCIAS DE ESTÁGIO NO CENTRO DE REFERÊNCIA DE ASSISTÊNCIA SOCIAL

Abstract

The Social Assistance Reference Center is a place where is inserted the Social Work, which in the current conjucture goes through a precariousness  and rights loss process,  contradicting the accomplishment of the competences and private attributions inherent to the professional performance. During the mandatory internship it was observed that the Social Assistance area is still permeated by the conservadorism and the Social Work develops a job that seeks to reafirm and make feasable the rights of those in need. This paper aims to analyse the performance of the competences and private attributions of the social worker at the Social Assistance Reference Center. The methodology consisted of bibliographic study and participant observation. The results revealed that existing contradictions such as low wages, unhealthy working conditions and the existence of a correlation of forces directly contradict the daily routine of professional performance. In view of that, the Social Worker faces some limits in the exercise of competences and attributions that guide him, even distancing himself from the defended values as well as from other documents that mark the profession. Therefore, we have seen that some professionals who work at the Reference Center are unaware of their duties and end up performing activities that do not concern to the profession. This scenario contributes to the lack of qualification of demands, reflections about their practice and the reality of users.