Where a crisis situation social worker can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a crisis situation social worker already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Crisis situation social workers provide emergency support and assistance to persons with physical or mental disorders by addressing their distress, impairment, and instability. They assess the level of risk, mobilise client resources, and stabilise the crisis.
Also known as crisis intervention counsellor, crisis situation counsellor, emergency social worker, crisis situation worker, crisis intervention social worker, crisis response social worker, disaster social worker.
Professionals 68 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: education welfare officer, 79%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · Within reach
- education welfare officer 79% covered · difficulty 39
- residential home young people care worker 72% covered · difficulty 46.8
- mental health support worker 70% covered · difficulty 48.7
- residential childcare worker 70% covered · difficulty 49.1
- residential home adult care worker 70% covered · difficulty 47.6
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A crisis situation social worker needs 63 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- crisis intervention health and welfare
- clinical social work health and welfare
- apply anti-oppressive practices assisting and caring
- apply case management communication, collaboration and creativity
- 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
- consider social impact of actions on service users management skills
- organise social work packages management skills
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a crisis situation social worker does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- child welfare worker 69% covered · difficulty 49.1
- mental health support worker 69% covered · difficulty 49.6
- social work lecturer 68% covered · difficulty 49.8
- child day care worker 68% covered · difficulty 50.8
- family support worker 68% covered · difficulty 50.8
- foster care support worker 68% covered · difficulty 50.8
- residential childcare worker 68% covered · difficulty 50.8
- residential home young people care worker 67% covered · difficulty 51.3
- disability support worker 65% covered · difficulty 53.3
- social work assistant 53% covered · difficulty 63.5
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Crisis situation social worker is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. 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 crisis situation 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.