Where a residential home young people care worker can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a residential home young people care worker already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Residential home young people care workers provide assistance and support to young people who face complex emotional needs expressed in challenging behaviours. They support young adults with learning disabilities coping with school, encourage them to household activities and help them to take responsibility.
Also known as residential support worker (young adults), support worker (young people in care), residential support worker (young people), children's services worker, residential support worker (children), residential home adolescent care worker.
Technicians and associate professionals 65 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: social work assistant, 68%
- 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 home young people care worker needs 64 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 young people care worker does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- community development social worker 74% covered · difficulty 44.6
- youth offending team worker 74% covered · difficulty 44.6
- youth worker 74% covered · difficulty 44.6
- consultant social worker 73% covered · difficulty 45.2
- criminal justice social worker 73% covered · difficulty 45.2
- family social worker 73% covered · difficulty 45.2
- homelessness worker 73% covered · difficulty 45.2
- hospital social worker 73% covered · difficulty 45.2
- mental health social worker 73% covered · difficulty 45.2
- migrant social worker 73% covered · difficulty 45.2
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Residential home young people 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 young people 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.