Where a mental health support worker can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a mental health support worker already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Mental health support workers assist and provide treatment to people with mental, emotional, or substance abuse problems. They focus on personalised cases and monitor the recovery process of their clients, providing also therapy, crisis intervention, client advocacy and education.
Also known as mental health social care worker, support time and recovery worker, mental health recovery worker, mental healthcare support worker, mental health community outreach worker, mental healthcare worker, mental health outreach worker, re-ablement worker, intensive support worker, mental health community development worker.
Technicians and associate professionals 68 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: crisis situation social worker, 69%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A mental health support worker needs 65 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- diagnose psychiatric symptoms information skills
- 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
- undertake risk assessment of social service users information skills
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a mental health support worker does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- mental health social worker 74% covered · difficulty 44.2
- criminal justice social worker 72% covered · difficulty 47.2
- migrant social worker 72% covered · difficulty 47.2
- community development social worker 71% covered · difficulty 47.8
- family social worker 71% covered · difficulty 47.8
- homelessness worker 71% covered · difficulty 47.8
- rehabilitation support worker 71% covered · difficulty 47.8
- substance misuse worker 71% covered · difficulty 47.8
- victim support officer 71% covered · difficulty 47.8
- youth offending team worker 71% covered · difficulty 47.8
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Mental health support worker is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. 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 mental health 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.