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.
Also known as community first responder, community healthcare support worker, community support worker, community healthcare worker, community carer, community health assistant, community healthcare assistant.
Technicians and associate professionals 33 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: social work assistant, 35%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A community health worker needs 14 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- community education education
- build community relations communication, collaboration and creativity
- apply decision making within social work management skills
- review social service plan information skills
- apply knowledge of human behaviour communication, collaboration and creativity
- provide social counselling assisting and caring
- build helping relationship with social service users communication, collaboration and creativity
- deliver social services in diverse cultural communities management skills
- maintain records of work with service users information skills
- communicate with social service users communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a community health worker does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- social work assistant 60% covered · difficulty 42.1
- public housing manager 58% covered · difficulty 43.4
- social counsellor 54% covered · difficulty 47.8
- drug and alcohol addiction counsellor 50% covered · difficulty 50.9
- marriage counsellor 50% covered · difficulty 50.9
- family planning counsellor 49% covered · difficulty 52.5
- bereavement counsellor 47% covered · difficulty 54
- sexual violence counsellor 47% covered · difficulty 54
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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.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a community health 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.