Where an adult community care worker can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role an adult community care worker already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Adult community care workers perform assessment and care management of communities of adults who live with physical impairments or convalescing states. They aim to improve their life in the community and enable them to live safely and independently at their own home.
Also known as community carer, community carer worker, independent living advisor.
Technicians and associate professionals 63 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: social care worker, 81%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
An adult community care worker needs 61 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- assist social service users in formulating complaints assisting and caring
- encourage social service users to preserve their independence in their daily activities assisting and caring
- monitor service users' health information skills
- refer service users to community resources assisting and caring
- support service users in developing skills assisting and caring
- support service users to use technological aids assisting and caring
- support social service users with specific communication needs assisting and caring
- support social service users' positiveness communication, collaboration and creativity
- undertake risk assessment of social service users information skills
- support harmed social service users assisting and caring
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what an adult community care worker does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- hospital social worker 72% covered · difficulty 45.3
- homelessness worker 72% covered · difficulty 45.8
- mental health social worker 72% covered · difficulty 45.8
- military welfare worker 71% covered · difficulty 46.4
- palliative care social worker 71% covered · difficulty 46.4
- community care case worker 70% covered · difficulty 47.4
- elderly home manager 67% covered · difficulty 52.1
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Adult community care worker is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of an adult community care worker’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.