From care home worker to housing support worker
60 of the 61 essential skills of a housing support worker are already essential for a care home worker — about 98% of the job, before you learn anything new.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 60
- skills carry over
- 1
- would be new
- 98%
- of the target job covered
- 61
- essential skills of a housing support worker
What a housing support worker does
Housing support workers provide support and assistance to elderly, people with a physical impairment or learning disability, homeless people, ex-drug addicts, ex-alcohol addicts or ex-offenders.
What carries over
60 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- accept own accountability
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- advocate for social service users
- apply decision making within social work
- apply holistic approach within social services
- apply organisational techniques
- apply person-centred care
- apply problem solving in social service
- apply quality standards in social services
- apply socially just working principles
- assess social service users' situation
- assist individuals with disabilities in community activities
- assist social service users in formulating complaints
- assist social service users with physical disabilities
- build helping relationship with social service users
- communicate professionally with colleagues in other fields
- communicate with social service users
- company policies
- comply with legislation in social services
- conduct interview in social service
- contribute to protecting individuals from harm
- customer service
- deliver social services in diverse cultural communities
- demonstrate leadership in social service cases
- encourage social service users to preserve their independence in their daily activities
- follow health and safety precautions in social care practices
- involve service users and carers in care planning
- legal requirements in the social sector
- listen actively
- maintain privacy of service users
- maintain records of work with service users
- maintain the trust of service users
- manage social crisis
- manage stress in the work place
- meet standards of practice in social services
- monitor service users' health
- prevent social problems
- promote inclusion
- promote service users' rights
- promote social change
and 20 more
What would be new
1 skillsEssential for a housing support worker and not for a care home worker. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
Other moves from care home worker
2 roles- residential home older adult care worker61 skills in common
- adult community care worker61 skills in common
← care home workerhousing support worker →The other way round
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How far are you from being a housing support worker?
MyNodes reads your CV once, maps it to this same taxonomy, and shows you which roles you are already closest to and the few skills that would open the most doors. The file is deleted as soon as it has been read.