Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a pastoral worker can go next

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

Pastoral workers support religious communities. They provide spiritual education and guidance and implement programmes such as charity works and religious rites. Pastoral workers also assist ministers and help participants in the religious community with social, cultural or emotional problems.

Also known as parish worker, church pastoral worker, ministry pastoral worker, religious worker, lay worker.

Technicians and associate professionals 32 skills on file 5 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: chaplain, 74%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
chaplain 74% covered minister of religion 51% covered missionary 48% covered verger 39% covered monk/nun 36% covered pastoral worker You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from pastoral 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 pastoral worker already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A pastoral worker needs 9 required skills and areas of knowledge. They say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • provide charity services management skills
  • provide spiritual counselling assisting and caring
  • perform religious ceremonies communication, collaboration and creativity
  • promote religious activities communication, collaboration and creativity
  • build community relations communication, collaboration and creativity
  • observe confidentiality assisting and caring
  • respond to enquiries assisting and caring
  • establish collaborative relations communication, collaboration and creativity
  • mentor individuals communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Pastoral 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 pastoral 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.