Where a residential home adult care worker can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a residential home adult care worker already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Residential home adult care workers counsel and support vulnerable adults who have physical or mental disabilities or addiction issues. They monitor their progress and provide them with care in a positive living environment. They work with families to support individuals' development and meet their needs.
Also known as adult services worker.
Technicians and associate professionals 60 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: child day care worker, 80%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A residential home adult care worker needs 60 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- support social service users at the end of life 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
- 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 home adult care worker does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- clinical social worker 72% covered · difficulty 45.7
- consultant social worker 72% covered · difficulty 45.7
- gerontology social worker 72% covered · difficulty 45.7
- palliative care social worker 72% covered · difficulty 45.7
- benefits advice worker 70% covered · difficulty 47.6
- child care social worker 70% covered · difficulty 47.6
- community development social worker 70% covered · difficulty 47.6
- criminal justice social worker 70% covered · difficulty 47.6
- crisis situation social worker 70% covered · difficulty 47.6
- education welfare officer 70% covered · difficulty 47.6
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Residential home adult care 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 home adult care 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.