Where an education welfare officer can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role an education welfare officer already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Education welfare officers address the social and psychological well-being of students. They counsel students concerning their personal issues that affect their school behaviour, performance and social life. These issues may range from attention deficit problems, to social and personal issues such as poverty or domestic and sexual abuse. Education welfare officers also handle the communication between the students, the parents and the school.
Also known as education engagement officer, school social worker, attendance support officer, social worker in education, education and family engagement officer, school welfare officer, social worker in schools, wellfare officer (education), education social worker, attendance welfare officer, pastoral advisor, education welfare practitioner.
Professionals 96 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: social worker, 73%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · Within reach
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
An education welfare officer needs 77 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- social pedagogy health and welfare
- tackle issues that block academic progress assisting and caring
- counsel students communication, collaboration and creativity
- consultation business, administration and law
- crisis intervention health and welfare
- show consideration for student's situation communication, collaboration and creativity
- behavioural disorders social sciences, journalism and information
- apply anti-oppressive practices assisting and caring
- apply case management communication, collaboration and creativity
- consult student's support system communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what an education welfare officer does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- hospital social worker 79% covered · difficulty 38.4
- consultant social worker 79% covered · difficulty 39
- crisis situation social worker 79% covered · difficulty 39
- child care social worker 77% covered · difficulty 40.5
- clinical social worker 77% covered · difficulty 40.5
- rehabilitation support worker 77% covered · difficulty 40.5
- victim support officer 77% covered · difficulty 40.5
- youth offending team worker 77% covered · difficulty 40.5
- youth worker 77% covered · difficulty 40.5
- community care case worker 76% covered · difficulty 41.9
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Education welfare officer 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 an education welfare officer’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.