Where a child care social worker can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a child care social worker already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Child care social workers provide social services to children and their families in order to improve their social and psychological functioning. They aim to maximize family's well-being and protect children from abuse and neglect. They assist adoption arrangements and find foster homes where needed.
Also known as social worker (children and families), childcare social worker, social worker family safeguarding team, children's social worker, child protection social worker, social worker (looked after children), social worker (child protection), social worker (child care), children's services practitioner.
Professionals 68 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: education welfare officer, 77%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · Within reach
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A child care social worker needs 68 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- determine child welfare assisting and caring
- support traumatised children assisting and caring
- 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
- negotiate with social service users communication, collaboration and creativity
- provide support to social services users assisting and caring
- consider social impact of actions on service users management skills
- organise social work packages management skills
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a child care social worker does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- social care worker 74% covered · difficulty 45.3
- child day care worker 72% covered · difficulty 46.7
- child welfare worker 72% covered · difficulty 46.7
- foster care support worker 72% covered · difficulty 46.7
- residential childcare worker 72% covered · difficulty 46.7
- family support worker 69% covered · difficulty 50
- mental health support worker 68% covered · difficulty 51.4
- residential home young people care worker 68% covered · difficulty 51.4
- social counsellor 46% covered · difficulty 70
- sexual violence counsellor 44% covered · difficulty 71.1
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Child care social worker is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a child care social 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.