Where a social worker can go next
12 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a social worker already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Social workers are practice-based professionals who promote social change and development, social cohesion, and the empowerment and liberation of people. They interact with individuals, families, groups, organisations and communities in order to provide various forms of therapy and counselling, group work, and community work. Social workers guide people to use services to claim benefits, access community resources, find jobs and training, obtain legal advice or deal with other local authority departments.
- Highest coverage recorded
- 80%
- Destinations
- 12each with a full record
- Within reach
- 12difficulty under 55
- Skills on file
- 121required or supplementary
Table 1 · Within reach
- community development social worker 80% covered · difficulty 35.3
- social work assistant 80% covered · difficulty 25.8
- social work practice educator 80% covered · difficulty 34.9
- employment support worker 79% covered · difficulty 35.5
- substance misuse worker 79% covered · difficulty 37.4
- youth offending team worker 79% covered · difficulty 37.4
- gerontology social worker 80% covered · difficulty 35.6
- hospital social worker 78% covered · difficulty 38.8
- palliative care social worker 77% covered · difficulty 40.4
- mental health social worker 76% covered · difficulty 42.5
- criminal justice social worker 76% covered · difficulty 40.7
- clinical social worker 80% covered · difficulty 35.2
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social worker is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a social 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.