Where a social counsellor can go next
12 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a social counsellor already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Social counsellors provide support and guidance to individuals in the social work area, to help them solve specific problems in their personal life. It involves addressing personal and relationship issues, dealing with inner conflicts, crisis moments such as depression and addiction, in an attempt to empower individuals to achieve change and improve their life quality.
- Highest coverage recorded
- 73%
- Destinations
- 12each with a full record
- Within reach
- 2difficulty under 55
- Skills on file
- 95required or supplementary
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
- substance misuse worker 47% covered · difficulty 69.1
- residential childcare worker 46% covered · difficulty 69.6
- youth worker 46% covered · difficulty 70.4
- residential home young people care worker 46% covered · difficulty 69.9
- child care social worker 46% covered · difficulty 70
- mental health support worker 45% covered · difficulty 70.5
- family social worker 45% covered · difficulty 70.9
- child welfare worker 45% covered · difficulty 71
- social work assistant 45% covered · difficulty 62.7
- consultant social worker 45% covered · difficulty 71.3
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social counsellor is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a social counsellor already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.