Career Overlap Occupation record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
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Where a community health worker can go next

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

Community health workers provide advice and information about various health subjects to the community. They can assist with pre- and post-natal care, give nutritional advice and help individuals stop smoking. Community health workers develop health and prevention programmes.

Technicians and associate professionals 33 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: social work assistant, 35%

social work assistant 35% covered family support worker 25% covered residential home adult care w… 25% covered housing support worker 25% covered residential home older adult … 25% covered community health worker You are here
Fig. 2 — the 5 nearest destinations from community health worker. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a community health worker already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

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community health worker is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. The full index lists all ten groups.

Note

How these figures were compiled

Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a community health worker already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. 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.