Career Overlap Transition record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
Table 1Transition record

child care workertolegal guardian

A child care worker already meets 29% of what the legal guardian role asks for. The move turns on 12 required skills not yet in the profile.

From child care worker
29%
Overlap1
To legal guardian
12 Skills carried over
12 Required, not held
67.7 Difficulty2
Career overlap Distant match

29%

Learning distance Substantial retraining

67.7/ 100

1 Share of the legal guardian role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the child care worker 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

Why this move works

A legal guardian role treats 2 of its required skills as things a child care worker already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • determine child welfare
  • provide first aid

What stands in the way is 12 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.

Table 2

Table 2 · What you already bring

Of the 12 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A legal guardian role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a child care worker background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held assist children with homework assisting and caring
  • already held play with children assisting and caring
  • already held determine child welfare assisting and caring
  • already held assist children in developing personal skills assisting and caring
  • already held attend to children's basic physical needs assisting and caring
  • already held support traumatised children assisting and caring

All 12 carried skills, including the 2 the legal guardian role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 17 missing skills fall into 6 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.

Skill to acquire Tier
01 assisting and caring 3 required, 4 supplementary
  • required, not held apply person-centred care required
  • required, not held contribute to protecting individuals from harm required
  • required, not held give advice on personal matters required
  • optional, not held assist individuals with disabilities in community activities optional
  • optional, not held tend to elderly people optional
  • optional, not held provide in-home support for disabled individuals optional
  • optional, not held screen clients optional
02 business, administration and law 3 required
  • required, not held private law required
  • required, not held family law required
  • required, not held legal requirements in the social sector required
03 communication, collaboration and creativity 3 required
  • required, not held advocate for social service users required
  • required, not held listen actively required
  • required, not held maintain the trust of service users required
04 health and welfare 1 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held first aid required
  • optional, not held older adults' needs optional
05 generic programmes and qualifications 1 required
  • required, not held personal development required
06 information skills 1 required
  • required, not held assist with personal administration issues required
Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a legal guardian role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.

Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.

Appendix

Appendix · The rest of the record

All 12 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held determine child welfare skill
  • already held provide first aid skill
  • already held assess the development of youth skill
  • already held assist children in developing personal skills skill
  • already held assist children with homework skill
  • already held attend to children's basic physical needs skill
  • already held disability care knowledge
  • already held handle children's problems skill
  • already held maintain relations with children's parents skill
  • already held play with children skill
  • already held support children's wellbeing skill
  • already held support traumatised children skill
5 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held assist individuals with disabilities in community activities optional
  • optional, not held tend to elderly people optional
  • optional, not held older adults' needs optional
  • optional, not held provide in-home support for disabled individuals optional
  • optional, not held screen clients optional
18 held skills the legal guardian role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role baby care knowledge
  • not needed by the target role babysitting knowledge
  • not needed by the target role carry out wound care skill
  • not needed by the target role clean rooms skill
  • not needed by the target role common children's diseases knowledge
  • not needed by the target role communicate with youth skill
  • not needed by the target role handle chemical cleaning agents skill
  • not needed by the target role pedagogy knowledge
  • not needed by the target role plan youth activities skill
  • not needed by the target role prepare ready-made dishes skill
  • not needed by the target role prepare sandwiches skill
  • not needed by the target role relate empathetically skill
  • not needed by the target role social development knowledge
  • not needed by the target role supervise children skill
  • not needed by the target role support the positiveness of youths skill
  • not needed by the target role tolerate stress skill
  • not needed by the target role work in a multicultural environment in health care skill
  • not needed by the target role workplace sanitation knowledge
6 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice

Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.

Skill to acquire Tier
  • required, not held private law required
  • required, not held family law required
  • required, not held first aid required
  • required, not held legal requirements in the social sector required
  • required, not held personal development required
  • optional, not held older adults' needs optional
Index

Other moves recorded from child care worker

Full index of moves from child care worker

Note

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.