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Where a palliative care social worker can go next

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

Palliative care social workers provide assistance and counselling to patients with a chronic or a terminal disease and their families with the practical arrangements. They arrange the required medical care for the patient and help the family to adjust to the diagnosis by providing support and attention to their emotional needs, helping them to understand their options.

Also known as hospice worker, palliative care assistant, palliative care supervisor, hospice care assistant, hospice carer, palliative and hospice social worker, hospice nursing assistant.

Professionals 73 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: residential home older adult care worker, 72%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
residential home older adult … 72% covered residential home adult care w… 72% covered education welfare officer 71% covered adult community care worker 71% covered care home worker 71% covered palliative care social wo… You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from palliative care social 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 palliative care social 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 palliative care social worker needs 71 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
  • counsel on end-of-life care communication, collaboration and creativity
  • palliative care health and welfare
  • stages of bereavement social sciences, journalism and information
  • support social service users at the end of life communication, collaboration and creativity
  • evaluate older adults' ability to take care of themselves management skills
  • older adults' needs 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
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Palliative care social worker is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. 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 palliative care 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.