The relevance of the formation of information competence among the future social workers, which is due to the requirements of higher education in shaping a competitive personality, owning a large arsenal of means and methods of working with a professional deterministic information is substantiated. The necessity of the development and validation of models of formation of information competence of a social worker at the university by means of computer technology is substantiated. Under the model of information competence of the social worker a single, interconnected system that provides social workers learning process is understood, where the conditions of application of training tools methods and forms, informational competence is formed as an integral system of knowledge and skills to ensure the competitiveness of the individual, its focus on self-education, self-improvement and self-development. The development model was based on: the system, the competency, axiological and activity approaches. The approaches due to their didactic principles have been identified on the basis of the selected methodological: integrity, consciousness and activity, humanization dialogization and interdisciplinary integration, subjectivity, multifunctional, reflexivity. Building on the methodological approaches and didactic principles was based learning content, developed stages, were selected methods, tools, forms of learning and teaching conditions. The stages of formation of information competence of the future social worker: adaptively adjusting, reproductively-activity, professionally-oriented are described, each of which was carried out throughout the period of training of social workers with 1-4 course. To determine the effectiveness of the process of formation of information competence of the social worker, the criteria, indicators and levels of formation of information competence are revealed.