Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a clinical social worker can go next

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

Clinical social workers provide therapy, counselling, and intervention services to clients. They treat clients with personal struggles, namely mental illness, addiction, and abuse, advocating for them and helping them gain access to the necessary resources. They also focus on the impact of medical and public health issues within social aspects.

Also known as clinical social support worker.

Professionals 76 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: education welfare officer, 77%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
education welfare officer 77% covered residential home adult care w… 72% covered residential childcare worker 72% covered residential home young people… 72% covered social worker 71% covered clinical social worker You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from clinical social 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 clinical social 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 clinical social worker needs 69 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
  • identify mental health issues information skills
  • advise on mental health communication, collaboration and creativity
  • promote mental health management skills
  • clinical social work health and welfare
  • support traumatised children assisting and caring
  • health care system services
  • 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
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a clinical social worker does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Clinical social 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 clinical 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.