WordNet
welfare worker
n. someone employed to provide social services (especially to the disadvantaged) [syn: social worker, caseworker]
Usage examples of "welfare worker".
Ince-the wire-thin, whippet-faced child-welfare worker assigned to the case-paid a scheduled visit to the Teagel house on Saturday morning, September 16, Laura intended to demand to be returned to McIlroy Home.
I went in the evening with the story that I was a welfare worker for SAAFA, but nothing I could say would induce her to visit her husband.