family planning counsellortodrug and alcohol addiction counsellor
A family planning counsellor already meets 83% of what the drug and alcohol addiction counsellor role asks for. The move turns on 8 required skills not yet in the profile.
83%
29.1/ 100
1 Share of the drug and alcohol addiction counsellor role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the family planning counsellor 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 drug and alcohol addiction counsellor role treats 43 of its required skills as things a family planning counsellor already does. These are the ones it depends on most.
- accept own accountability
- apply quality standards in social services
- apply socially just working principles
- assess social service users' situation
- behavioural therapy
- build helping relationship with social service users
What stands in the way is 8 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 43 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A drug and alcohol addiction counsellor role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a family planning counsellor background worth leading with.
- already held maintain a non-emotional involvement assisting and caring
- already held respond to individuals' extreme emotions assisting and caring
- already held encourage counselled clients to examine themselves communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held help clients make decisions during counselling sessions assisting and caring
- already held reflexion social sciences, journalism and information
- already held cognitive behavioural therapy social sciences, journalism and information
All 43 carried skills, including the 43 the drug and alcohol addiction counsellor role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 11 missing skills fall into 5 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 assess clients' drug and alcohol addictions required
- required, not held prepare youths for adulthood required
- required, not held promote the safeguarding of young people required
- required, not held support the positiveness of youths required
- optional, not held inform on the risks of substance and alcohol abuse optional
- required, not held dependency on drugs required
- optional, not held clinical social work optional
- optional, not held sophrology optional
- required, not held use motivational incentives in addiction counselling required
- required, not held assess the development of youth required
- required, not held adolescent psychological development required
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a drug and alcohol addiction counsellor role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 assess clients' drug and alcohol addictions skill · sector specific
- 02 assess the development of youth skill · sector specific
- 03 use motivational incentives in addiction counselling 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 43 skills that carry over
- already held accept own accountability skill
- already held apply quality standards in social services skill
- already held apply socially just working principles skill
- already held assess social service users' situation skill
- already held behavioural therapy knowledge
- already held build helping relationship with social service users skill
- already held client-centred counselling knowledge
- already held cognitive behavioural therapy knowledge
- already held communicate professionally with colleagues in other fields skill
- already held communicate with social service users skill
- already held cooperate at inter-professional level skill
- already held counselling methods knowledge
- already held deliver social services in diverse cultural communities skill
- already held demonstrate leadership in social service cases skill
- already held encourage counselled clients to examine themselves skill
- already held follow health and safety precautions in social care practices skill
- already held have emotional intelligence skill
- already held help clients make decisions during counselling sessions skill
- already held human psychological development knowledge
- already held legal requirements in the social sector knowledge
- already held listen actively skill
- already held maintain a non-emotional involvement skill
- already held maintain records of work with service users skill
- already held maintain the trust of service users skill
- already held manage social crisis skill
- already held manage stress in the work place skill
- already held organise relapse prevention skill
- already held perform therapy sessions skill
- already held promote human rights skill
- already held promote inclusion skill
- already held promote social change skill
- already held provide social counselling skill
- already held psychological theories knowledge
- already held psychology knowledge
- already held refer social service users skill
- already held reflexion knowledge
- already held relate empathetically skill
- already held report on social development skill
- already held respond to individuals' extreme emotions skill
- already held social justice knowledge
- already held social sciences knowledge
- already held supervision of persons knowledge
- already held undertake continuous professional development in social work skill
3 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held clinical social work optional
- optional, not held inform on the risks of substance and alcohol abuse optional
- optional, not held sophrology optional
10 held skills the drug and alcohol addiction counsellor role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role address gender-related issues in family planning counselling skill
- not needed by the target role advise on family planning skill
- not needed by the target role advise on pregnancy skill
- not needed by the target role counsel patients on fertility treatments skill
- not needed by the target role pharmacology knowledge
- not needed by the target role provide counselling on abortion skill
- not needed by the target role provide education on family life skill
- not needed by the target role reproductive health knowledge
- not needed by the target role sex education knowledge
- not needed by the target role sexual disorders knowledge
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 adolescent psychological development required
- required, not held dependency on drugs required
- optional, not held clinical social work optional
- optional, not held sophrology optional
Other moves recorded from family planning counsellor
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.