Atribuições e competências do(a) Assistente Social na Política Municipal de Assistência Social: a gestão em questão

Abstract

The research developed to formulate this dissertation has as its object of study the professional practice of social workers as managers of municipal social assistance policy. Historically, the culture of welfare and benevolence has prevented the implementation of social assistance policy as a right of citizenship, to the detriment of the advances that legal regulations have achieved. Thus, based on the assumption that professional social workers have the technical-operative, ethical-political and theoretical-methodological capacity to act in the formulation and management of social policies, the following guiding question was developed: What responsibilities and competencies are performed by social workers? social workers in the role of municipal social assistance managers, in the 2021/2024 mandate, in the State of Paraná? The research aimed to analyze the duties and competencies of the professional social worker in the role of municipal manager in social assistance policy, having as its guide the historicization of the professionalization of social assistance policy over the years, understanding the duties and competencies of the social worker. in this policy, analyzing the extent to which professionals, in their role as municipal managers, contribute to the implementation of social rights and advancement in the democratization process. This is qualitative research, of an exploratory nature. Field research was used as the primary source, with semi-structured interviews and identification forms as data collection instruments, followed by documentary and bibliographical research as secondary sources. The subjects of this research are professional social workers who are working as municipal managers in social assistance policy, in the current term (2021/2024), in the state of Paraná, with active registration with the Regional Social Service Council (CRESS/PR). It was possible to conclude from the research that social worker, using their relative professional autonomy, express different characteristics of the exercise of management positions, both in relation to users and in relation to workers in social assistance policy, fertilizing democratizing practices that tension the neoliberal logic of restricting rights.