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

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

Consultant social workers deliver high quality social work services by contributing to the development and improvement of social work and social care practice. They contribute to policy development, deliver trainings and focus on research in the field of social work practices.

Also known as policy advisor, social work researcher, social work academic, social work consultant, social work educator, social work trainer, social work expert, academic social worker, social work staff trainer.

Professionals 74 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: education welfare officer, 79%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
education welfare officer 79% covered residential home young people… 73% covered social worker 72% covered residential home adult care w… 72% covered residential childcare worker 72% covered consultant social worker You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from consultant 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 consultant 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 consultant social worker needs 72 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
  • manage a social work unit management skills
  • support social service users at the end of life communication, collaboration and creativity
  • support social service users to manage their financial affairs communication, collaboration and creativity
  • client-centred counselling health and welfare
  • 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
  • negotiate with social service users communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Consultant 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 consultant 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.