Your future career

You will work in the individual - therapeutic - support of clients or in socio-political fields of social work. Depending upon the particular specialisation you choose, you will either work in social health - with the goal to prevent socially related diseases - or you will take responsibility for sociopolitical structural development and/or for intercultural and cross-generational innovations.

The following employment areas will be open to you:

• Outreach social work, street work
• Hospitals
• Out patients´ public health services
• Social and health centres
• Child guidance services
• Community psychiatric services
• Rehabilitation centres
• Addiction therapy centres
• Socio-economic enterprises
• Professional integration facilities
• Proxy network, curatorship, patients´advocate
• “Neustart”, probation service and courtless mediation
• Open youth and community service
• Leisure time provision
• Social profit organisations
• Social and health authorities
• Professional Social educational facilities
• Sociopolitical research institutes
• Residents´participation in urban area renewal

Career opportunities

The social consequences of youth and elderly unemployment, migration, sociostructural changes are only some of the challenges for social work, and the number and complexity are constantly increasing. The need for intermediate and innovative solutions is growing. The degree course will enable you to take over leadership responsibilities and to be active in research, particularly in staff functions for the survey of demand and social planning, as well as operational and advisory activities.