Where a hospital social worker can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a hospital social worker already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Hospital social workers provide counselling to patients and their families helping them to better cope with the illness, the emotions surrounding diagnosis, and with social and financial problems. They work in cooperation with doctors, nurses and other health professionals sensitising them on the emotional aspects of a patient. They act as link between patients and medical staff. Hospital social workers also support the patients and their families with the discharge from the hospital.
Also known as social worker, palliative care social worker, hospital discharge social worker, medical social worker, public health social worker.
Professionals 81 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 38.4
- residential home young people care worker 73% covered · difficulty 45.2
- adult community care worker 72% covered · difficulty 45.3
- residential home older adult care worker 72% covered · difficulty 45.5
- social worker 72% covered · difficulty 47.7
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A hospital social worker needs 69 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- arrange in-home services for patients management skills
- advocate for healthcare users' needs communication, collaboration and creativity
- crisis intervention health and welfare
- clinical social work health and welfare
- health care system services
- 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 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a hospital social worker does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
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Hospital 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 hospital 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.