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Where a benefits advice worker can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a benefits advice worker already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Benefits advice workers guide individuals in the social work area to help them solve specific problems in their personal life by addressing personal and relationship issues, inner conflicts, depression and addictions. They attempt to empower individuals to achieve change and improve the quality of their life. They may also support and advise clients on demanding their social security benefits.

Also known as social security social worker, welfare benefits social worker, employment and benefits advice worker, welfare rights adviser, welfare rights counsellor, welfare rights officer, social benefits social worker, welfare rights worker, benefit advisor, welfare benefits advice worker, welfare benefits adviser.

Professionals 69 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: social work assistant, 80%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
mental health social worker 79% covered social work assistant 80% covered education welfare officer 71% covered social worker 71% covered residential home adult care w… 70% covered benefits advice worker You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from benefits advice worker, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a benefits advice worker already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A benefits advice worker needs 67 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • develop social security programmes management skills
  • promote social security programmes communication, collaboration and creativity
  • support social service users to manage their financial affairs communication, collaboration and creativity
  • advise on social security benefits communication, collaboration and creativity
  • determine child welfare assisting and caring
  • social security law business, administration and law
  • apply anti-oppressive practices assisting and caring
  • apply case management communication, collaboration and creativity
  • make legislation transparent for users of social services communication, collaboration and creativity
  • negotiate with social service stakeholders communication, collaboration and creativity
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Benefits advice worker is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a benefits advice 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.