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Where a social work lecturer can go next

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

Social work lecturers are professionals who exercise dual roles, on one hand they practice the academic discipline that provides social services, such as counselling, therapy or advocacy, to individuals or groups of people. On the other hand they are part of the academic world providing professional education, engaging also in research and knowledge development, contributing to solutions concerning complex social problems and innovative approaches to ameliorate those problems. They teach social work knowledge, skills and values for preparing students to engage in culturally competent social work practice with diverse populations and communities.

Also known as university social work teacher, university social work lecturer, university lecturer in social work, academic social work educator, social work lector, lecturer in social work, senior lecturer in social work, professor of social work and social policy, social work docent, university lecturer in social work and social policy, professor of social work, lecturer in social work and social policy.

Professionals 115 skills on file 5 career moves 5 above 60% overlap Closest: social work researcher, 76%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
social work researcher 76% covered social work practice educator 70% covered social work supervisor 70% covered crisis situation social worker 68% covered enterprise development worker 68% covered social work lecturer You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from social work lecturer, 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 work lecturer 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 work lecturer 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
  • teach principles of social work communication, collaboration and creativity
  • counselling methods health and welfare
  • negotiate with social service stakeholders communication, collaboration and creativity
  • negotiate with social service users communication, collaboration and creativity
  • provide support to social services users assisting and caring
  • consider social impact of actions on service users management skills
  • organise social work packages management skills
  • develop professional identity in social work communication, collaboration and creativity
  • social work theory health and welfare
  • empower social service users communication, collaboration and creativity
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Social work lecturer is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. 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 work lecturer’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.