Where a residential childcare worker can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a residential childcare worker already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Residential childcare workers counsel and support children who have physical or mental disabilities. They monitor their progress and provide them with care in a positive living environment. They liaise with the families in order to arrange their visits.
Also known as childcare worker, children's support worker, children's home worker, residential care worker, special needs support worker, residential home children care worker.
Technicians and associate professionals 67 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: child care social worker, 72%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · Within reach
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A residential childcare worker needs 67 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- assist social service users in formulating complaints assisting and caring
- determine child welfare 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 residential childcare worker does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- child care social worker 73% covered · difficulty 45.7
- clinical social worker 72% covered · difficulty 47.5
- consultant social worker 72% covered · difficulty 47.5
- rehabilitation support worker 72% covered · difficulty 47.5
- community care case worker 70% covered · difficulty 48.9
- crisis situation social worker 70% covered · difficulty 49.1
- education welfare officer 70% covered · difficulty 49.1
- migrant social worker 70% covered · difficulty 48.9
- victim support officer 70% covered · difficulty 48.9
- child day care centre manager 66% covered · difficulty 53.4
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Residential childcare 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 residential childcare 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.