O trabalho do assistente social na saúde: a particularidade das atribuições e competências profissionais frente ao processo de precarização do trabalho

Abstract

This study represents the systematization of analysis that focus on the determinants of the labor market and the implications aboutth e professional duties and responsibilities, mediated by current conditions and labor relations in the Emergency Care Unit – ECU and Children’s Hospital in Campina Grande. Has relevance across the questioning of the elements that integrates the in sertion of social workers in health policy, particularly because of demarcating the characterization of the expansion of socio-occupational spaces in the public sector, as these come constituted by a precarious expansion of the professional work. The main objective is to analyze trends in labor precarious ness of the professional duties and skills in the Emergency Care Unit – ECU and Children’s Hospital. The reflections here systematized result from empirical study, associated with a bibliographical and documentary review with methodological approach of qualitative character and are guided in the critical-dialectical method, enabling the unveiling of the complex reality.The procedures performed in the empirical study relate to an application of a form structured from closed and open questions and was applied with the approval of the Ethics Committee in UEPB. We prioritized and this exhibition the analyzes regarding of the relationship and working conditions of social workers, as well as high lighting the duties and professional skills developed in the surveyed health unity.