marriage counsellortocommunity health worker
A marriage counsellor already meets 50% of what the community health worker role asks for. The move turns on 5 required skills not yet in the profile.
50%
50.9/ 100
1 Share of the community health worker role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the marriage 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 community health worker role treats 9 of its required skills as things a marriage counsellor already does. These are the ones it depends on most.
- apply quality standards in social services
- assess social service users' situation
- build helping relationship with social service users
- communicate with social service users
- deliver social services in diverse cultural communities
- legal requirements in the social sector
What stands in the way is 5 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 13 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A community health worker role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a marriage counsellor background worth leading with.
- already held assess clients' drug and alcohol addictions communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held advise on mental health 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
- already held deliver social services in diverse cultural communities management skills
- already held maintain records of work with service users information skills
All 13 carried skills, including the 9 the community health worker role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 20 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 apply knowledge of human behaviour required
- required, not held build community relations required
- optional, not held advise on pregnancy optional
- optional, not held advocate for social service users optional
- optional, not held deliver group sessions on nutrition optional
- optional, not held empower social service users optional
- optional, not held inform on the risks of substance and alcohol abuse optional
- optional, not held promote health and safety policies in health services optional
- optional, not held support individuals on nutrition changes optional
- required, not held apply decision making within social work required
- optional, not held identify the health benefits of nutritional changes optional
- optional, not held manage health promotion activities optional
- optional, not held address public health issues optional
- optional, not held contribute to public health campaigns optional
- required, not held review social service plan required
- optional, not held perform health assessment autonomously optional
- required, not held community education required
- optional, not held assist families in crisis situations optional
- optional, not held assist individuals with disabilities in community activities optional
- optional, not held contribute to continuity of health care optional
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a community health worker role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 apply decision making within social work skill · sector specific
- 02 review social service plan skill · sector specific
- 03 apply knowledge of human behaviour skill · cross sector
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 13 skills that carry over
- already held apply quality standards in social services skill
- already held assess social service users' situation 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 provide social counselling skill
- already held relate empathetically skill
- already held advise on mental health skill
- already held assess clients' drug and alcohol addictions skill
- already held manage social crisis skill
- already held promote social change skill
15 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held advise on pregnancy optional
- optional, not held advocate for social service users optional
- optional, not held assist families in crisis situations optional
- optional, not held assist individuals with disabilities in community activities optional
- optional, not held contribute to continuity of health care optional
- optional, not held deliver group sessions on nutrition optional
- optional, not held empower social service users optional
- optional, not held identify the health benefits of nutritional changes optional
- optional, not held inform on the risks of substance and alcohol abuse optional
- optional, not held manage health promotion activities optional
- optional, not held perform health assessment autonomously optional
- optional, not held promote health and safety policies in health services optional
- optional, not held address public health issues optional
- optional, not held contribute to public health campaigns optional
- optional, not held support individuals on nutrition changes optional
45 held skills the community health worker role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role accept own accountability skill
- not needed by the target role adolescent psychological development knowledge
- not needed by the target role apply socially just working principles skill
- not needed by the target role behavioural therapy knowledge
- not needed by the target role client-centred counselling knowledge
- not needed by the target role clinical social work knowledge
- not needed by the target role cognitive behavioural therapy knowledge
- not needed by the target role communicate professionally with colleagues in other fields skill
- not needed by the target role cooperate at inter-professional level skill
- not needed by the target role counsel patient on family concerns skill
- not needed by the target role counselling methods knowledge
- not needed by the target role demonstrate leadership in social service cases skill
- not needed by the target role dependency on drugs knowledge
- not needed by the target role develop patient treatment strategies skill
- not needed by the target role empower individuals, families and groups skill
- not needed by the target role encourage counselled clients to examine themselves skill
- not needed by the target role family therapy knowledge
- not needed by the target role follow health and safety precautions in social care practices skill
- not needed by the target role have emotional intelligence skill
- not needed by the target role help clients cope with grief skill
- not needed by the target role help clients make decisions during counselling sessions skill
- not needed by the target role human psychological development knowledge
- not needed by the target role identify mental health issues skill
- not needed by the target role listen actively skill
- not needed by the target role maintain a non-emotional involvement skill
- not needed by the target role maintain the trust of service users skill
- not needed by the target role manage stress in the work place skill
- not needed by the target role organise relapse prevention skill
- not needed by the target role perform therapy sessions skill
- not needed by the target role promote human rights skill
- not needed by the target role promote inclusion skill
- not needed by the target role provide education on family life skill
- not needed by the target role psychological theories knowledge
- not needed by the target role psychology knowledge
- not needed by the target role refer social service users skill
- not needed by the target role reflexion knowledge
- not needed by the target role report on social development skill
- not needed by the target role respond to individuals' extreme emotions skill
- not needed by the target role social justice knowledge
- not needed by the target role social sciences knowledge
5 further entries not listed here
1 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 community education 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.