Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a housing support worker can go next

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

Housing support workers provide support and assistance to elderly, people with a physical impairment or learning disability, homeless people, ex-drug addicts, ex-alcohol addicts or ex-offenders.

Also known as housing officer, housing advisor, support worker (housing), senior housing support worker, assistant housing support worker, housing outreach worker, housing advice worker, housing support officer.

Technicians and associate professionals 61 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: child day care worker, 80%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
social care worker 80% covered child day care worker 80% covered social work assistant 67% covered social work supervisor 66% covered enterprise development worker 66% covered housing support worker You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from housing 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 housing 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 housing support worker needs 61 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
  • advise on housing communication, collaboration and creativity
  • support social service users to live at home communication, collaboration and creativity
  • assist social service users in formulating complaints 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
  • support social service users with specific communication needs assisting and caring
  • support social service users' positiveness communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Housing 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 housing 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.