Where a residential home older adult care worker can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a residential home older adult care worker already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Residential home older adult care workers counsel and support elderly who have physical or mental disabilities. They monitor their progress and provide them with care in a positive living environment. They liaise with the clients' families in order to arrange their visits.
Also known as residential support worker (older adults), support worker (older adults in care), older adult services worker, residential support worker, supported living support worker.
Technicians and associate professionals 61 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 older adult care worker needs 61 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
- 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
- support harmed social service users assisting and caring
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a residential home older adult care worker does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- gerontology social worker 72% covered · difficulty 45.5
- homelessness worker 72% covered · difficulty 45.5
- hospital social worker 72% covered · difficulty 45.5
- mental health social worker 72% covered · difficulty 45.5
- military welfare worker 72% covered · difficulty 45.5
- palliative care social worker 72% covered · difficulty 45.5
- community care case worker 71% covered · difficulty 47.1
- community social worker 71% covered · difficulty 47.1
- employment support worker 69% covered · difficulty 48.7
- enterprise development worker 69% covered · difficulty 48.7
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Residential home older 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 older 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.