Career Overlap Occupation record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
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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.

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

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
Fig. 2 — the 5 nearest destinations from social care worker. 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.
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

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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.

Note

How these figures were compiled

Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a social care worker already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. 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.