Career Overlap Occupation record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
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Where a family social worker can go next

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

Family social workers provide advice to families about the range of social services available to solve their problems or challenging life situations such as addictions, mental illnesses, medical or financial struggles. They help their users to access these social services and monitor their appropriate usage.

Professionals 72 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: education welfare officer, 76%

education welfare officer 76% covered residential home young people… 73% covered family support worker 73% covered social worker 71% covered mental health support worker 71% covered family social worker You are here
Fig. 2 — the 5 nearest destinations from family social worker. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a family social worker already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

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family social worker is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

Note

How these figures were compiled

Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a family social worker already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. 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.