Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a social care worker can go next

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

Social care workers provide support and help people with care services. They help people to live full and valued lives in the community. They assist babies, young children, adolescents, adults and older adults.They attend to the psychological, social, emotional and physical needs of service users. They work in a large variety of settings with individuals, families, groups, organisations and communities.

Also known as care worker, senior care worker, senior social care worker, social care assistant, community social care worker.

Technicians and associate professionals 104 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: child care social worker, 74%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
child care social worker 74% covered family social worker 73% covered social work assistant 72% covered consultant social worker 71% covered community care case worker 71% covered social care worker You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from social care 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 social care worker already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A social care worker needs 59 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • 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

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Social care 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 social 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.