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Where a community social worker can go next

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

Community social workers help people in disadvantage or excluded from society to change their situation and handle their integration problems. They work with communities focusing on specific groups. Community social workers liaise closely with social workers, schools, local authorities and probation officers representing people before policy makers at local and national level.

Also known as community support worker, community outreach worker, housing social worker, community welfare social worker, social development worker, senior community worker, neighbourhood worker, estate outreach worker, neighbourhood outreach worker, outreach worker.

Professionals 80 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: education welfare officer, 75%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
education welfare officer 75% covered social worker 73% covered care home worker 71% covered residential home older adult … 71% covered housing support worker 71% covered community social worker You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from community 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 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 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.

Required skill Area
  • provide community development services communication, collaboration and creativity
  • raise awareness on local community's priorities communication, collaboration and creativity
  • perform street interventions in social work assisting and caring
  • perform fundraising activities communication, collaboration and creativity
  • evaluate older adults' ability to take care of themselves management skills
  • apply anti-oppressive practices assisting and caring
  • apply case management communication, collaboration and creativity
  • counselling methods health and welfare
  • make legislation transparent for users of social services communication, collaboration and creativity
  • negotiate with social service stakeholders communication, collaboration and creativity
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Community 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 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.