community health workertohousing support worker
A community health worker already meets 25% of what the housing support worker role asks for. The move turns on 46 required skills not yet in the profile.
25%
83.8/ 100
1 Share of the housing support worker role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the community health worker profile. Required skills count in full, supplementary skills at 0.35. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. 2 Combines what is missing with how specialised it is, so a gap of general skills scores easier than the same number of narrow ones.
Why this move works
A housing support worker role treats 15 of its required skills as things a community health worker already does. These are the ones it depends on most.
- advocate for social service users
- apply decision making within social work
- apply quality standards in social services
- assess social service users' situation
- assist individuals with disabilities in community activities
- build helping relationship with social service users
What stands in the way is 46 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.
Table 2 · What you already bring
Of the 15 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A housing support worker role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a community health worker background worth leading with.
- already held assist individuals with disabilities in community activities assisting and caring
- already held apply decision making within social work management skills
- already held review social service plan information skills
- already held advocate for social service users communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held provide social counselling assisting and caring
- already held build helping relationship with social service users communication, collaboration and creativity
All 15 carried skills, including the 15 the housing support worker role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 46 missing skills fall into 6 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered below in the order worth working in: the areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the supplementary ones.
- required, not held apply person-centred care required
- required, not held assist social service users in formulating complaints required
- required, not held contribute to protecting individuals from harm required
- required, not held encourage social service users to preserve their independence in their daily activities required
- required, not held follow health and safety precautions in social care practices required
- required, not held meet standards of practice in social services required
- required, not held prevent social problems required
- required, not held protect vulnerable social service users required
- required, not held refer service users to community resources required
- required, not held support service users in developing skills required
- required, not held support service users to use technological aids required
- required, not held support social service users with specific communication needs required
- required, not held adhere to organisational guidelines required
- required, not held apply socially just working principles required
- required, not held assist social service users with physical disabilities required
- required, not held comply with legislation in social services required
- required, not held maintain privacy of service users required
- required, not held promote inclusion required
- required, not held support harmed social service users required
- required, not held accept own accountability required
- required, not held advise on housing required
- required, not held apply problem solving in social service required
- required, not held conduct interview in social service required
- required, not held promote service users' rights required
- required, not held support social service users' positiveness required
- required, not held communicate professionally with colleagues in other fields required
- required, not held listen actively required
- required, not held maintain the trust of service users required
- required, not held report on social development required
- required, not held support social service users in skills management required
- required, not held support social service users to live at home required
- required, not held work in a multicultural environment in health care required
- required, not held demonstrate leadership in social service cases required
- required, not held tolerate stress required
- required, not held apply organisational techniques required
- required, not held involve service users and carers in care planning required
- required, not held manage stress in the work place required
- required, not held work within communities required
- required, not held apply holistic approach within social services required
- required, not held monitor service users' health required
- required, not held undertake risk assessment of social service users required
- required, not held undertake continuous professional development in social work required
- required, not held company policies required
- required, not held customer service required
- required, not held social justice required
- required, not held social sciences required
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a housing support worker role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 accept own accountability skill · sector specific
- 02 advise on housing skill · sector specific
- 03 apply holistic approach within social services skill · sector specific
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 15 skills that carry over
- already held advocate for social service users skill
- already held apply decision making within social work skill
- already held apply quality standards in social services skill
- already held assess social service users' situation skill
- already held assist individuals with disabilities in community activities skill
- already held build helping relationship with social service users skill
- already held communicate with social service users skill
- already held deliver social services in diverse cultural communities skill
- already held legal requirements in the social sector knowledge
- already held maintain records of work with service users skill
- already held manage social crisis skill
- already held promote social change skill
- already held provide social counselling skill
- already held relate empathetically skill
- already held review social service plan skill
0 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
18 held skills the housing support worker role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role address public health issues skill
- not needed by the target role advise on mental health skill
- not needed by the target role advise on pregnancy skill
- not needed by the target role apply knowledge of human behaviour skill
- not needed by the target role assess clients' drug and alcohol addictions skill
- not needed by the target role assist families in crisis situations skill
- not needed by the target role build community relations skill
- not needed by the target role community education knowledge
- not needed by the target role contribute to continuity of health care skill
- not needed by the target role contribute to public health campaigns skill
- not needed by the target role deliver group sessions on nutrition skill
- not needed by the target role empower social service users skill
- not needed by the target role identify the health benefits of nutritional changes skill
- not needed by the target role inform on the risks of substance and alcohol abuse skill
- not needed by the target role manage health promotion activities skill
- not needed by the target role perform health assessment autonomously skill
- not needed by the target role promote health and safety policies in health services skill
- not needed by the target role support individuals on nutrition changes skill
4 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice
Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.
- required, not held company policies required
- required, not held customer service required
- required, not held social justice required
- required, not held social sciences required
How this record was compiled
Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.