community health worker
Community health workers provide advice and information about various health subjects to the community. They can assist with pre- and post-natal care, give nutritional advice and help individuals stop smoking. Community health workers develop health and prevention programmes.
Also called: community health assistant, community support worker, community carer, community healthcare worker, community healthcare support worker, community first responder, community healthcare assistant
- 14
- essential skills
- 19
- optional skills
- 8
- related roles
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Where you can go from here
8 rolesOccupations sharing the most essential skills with this one. The number is a count, not an opinion.
- community social workerWhat changes?12 skills in common
- criminal justice social workerWhat changes?12 skills in common
- adult community care worker11 skills in common
- disability support worker11 skills in common
- enterprise development worker11 skills in common
- hospital social worker11 skills in common
- military welfare worker11 skills in common
- residential home adult care worker11 skills in common
Essential skills
14- apply decision making within social work
- apply knowledge of human behaviour
- apply quality standards in social services
- assess social service users' situation
- build community relations
- build helping relationship with social service users
- communicate with social service users
- community education
- deliver social services in diverse cultural communities
- legal requirements in the social sector
- maintain records of work with service users
- provide social counselling
- relate empathetically
- review social service plan
Optional skills
19- address public health issues
- advise on mental health
- advise on pregnancy
- advocate for social service users
- assess clients' drug and alcohol addictions
- assist families in crisis situations
- assist individuals with disabilities in community activities
- contribute to continuity of health care
- contribute to public health campaigns
- deliver group sessions on nutrition
- empower social service users
- identify the health benefits of nutritional changes
- inform on the risks of substance and alcohol abuse
- manage health promotion activities
- manage social crisis
- perform health assessment autonomously
- promote health and safety policies in health services
- promote social change
- support individuals on nutrition changes
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