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.
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
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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
Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a hospital 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.