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Where a foster care support worker can go next

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

Foster care support workers assist and support mentally or physically abused children to be legally separated from their parents. They help them to recover by placing them in appropriate families and making sure that the children welfare is a priority.

Also known as foster care worker, support worker (foster care), supervising social worker, independent placement support worker, placement supervisor, support worker (fostering), placement carer, placement support worker, fostering support worker, placement officer.

Technicians and associate professionals 70 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: child care social worker, 72%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
child care social worker 72% covered social work assistant 68% covered community care case worker 68% covered crisis situation social worker 68% covered family social worker 67% covered foster care support worker You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from foster care support 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 foster care support 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 foster care support worker needs 70 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
  • conduct foster care visits assisting and caring
  • evaluate prospective foster parents communication, collaboration and creativity
  • child protection services
  • assist social service users in formulating complaints assisting and caring
  • determine child welfare assisting and caring
  • encourage social service users to preserve their independence in their daily activities assisting and caring
  • monitor service users' health information skills
  • refer service users to community resources assisting and caring
  • support service users in developing skills assisting and caring
  • support service users to use technological aids assisting and caring
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Foster care support worker is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. 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 foster care support 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.