Career Overlap Occupation record
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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.

Also known as family services social worker, family support worker.

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

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
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
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from family 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 family 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 family social worker needs 71 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
  • assist families in crisis situations assisting and caring
  • empower individuals, families and groups communication, collaboration and creativity
  • support social service users to manage their financial affairs communication, collaboration and creativity
  • family law business, administration and law
  • support traumatised children assisting and caring
  • 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
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Family 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 family 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.