Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a community development social worker can go next

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

Community development social workers support individuals, families, and groups in socially or financially deprived areas. They provide leadership and bring local people together to make changes and tackle social inequality, helping people to develop the skills needed to eventually run their own community groups.

Also known as social development worker, community advocate, social worker-community development, community animateur, community development team leader, community development support worker.

Professionals 73 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: education welfare officer, 76%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
education welfare officer 76% covered residential home young people… 74% covered mental health support worker 71% covered residential home adult care w… 70% covered social worker 70% covered community development soc… You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from community development 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 community development 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 community development social worker needs 66 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 sources on potential target communities for art management skills
  • perform fundraising activities communication, collaboration and creativity
  • build trust communication, collaboration and creativity
  • apply anti-oppressive practices assisting and caring
  • apply case management communication, collaboration and creativity
  • disability care health and welfare
  • 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
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Community development 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 community development 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.