housing support workertochild day care worker
A housing support worker already meets 80% of what the child day care worker role asks for. The move turns on 14 required skills not yet in the profile.
80%
36.2/ 100
1 Share of the child day care worker role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the housing support 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 this move works
A child day care worker role treats 59 of its required skills as things a housing support worker already does. These are the ones it depends on most.
- 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
What stands in the way is 14 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 59 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A child day care worker role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a housing support worker background worth leading with.
- already held assist social service users in formulating complaints assisting and caring
- already held encourage social service users to preserve their independence in their daily activities assisting and caring
- already held monitor service users' health information skills
- already held refer service users to community resources assisting and caring
- already held support service users in developing skills assisting and caring
- already held support service users to use technological aids assisting and caring
All 59 carried skills, including the 59 the child day care worker role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 15 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.
- required, not held assist children with special needs in education settings required
- required, not held determine child welfare required
- required, not held support traumatised children required
- required, not held implement care programmes for children required
- required, not held supervise children required
- required, not held support children's wellbeing required
- required, not held communicate with youth required
- required, not held maintain relations with children's parents required
- required, not held promote the safeguarding of young people required
- required, not held support the positiveness of youths required
- required, not held assess the development of youth required
- optional, not held plan youth activities optional
- required, not held monitor children's physical development required
- required, not held child protection required
- required, not held adolescent psychological development required
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a child day care worker role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 assess the development of youth skill · sector specific
- 02 assist children with special needs in education settings skill · sector specific
- 03 determine child welfare skill · sector specific
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 59 skills that carry over
- already held accept own accountability skill
- already held adhere to organisational guidelines skill
- already held advocate for social service users skill
- already held apply decision making within social work skill
- already held apply holistic approach within social services skill
- already held apply organisational techniques skill
- already held apply person-centred care skill
- already held apply problem solving in social service skill
- already held apply quality standards in social services skill
- already held apply socially just working principles skill
- already held assess social service users' situation skill
- already held assist individuals with disabilities in community activities skill
- already held assist social service users in formulating complaints skill
- already held assist social service users with physical disabilities skill
- already held build helping relationship with social service users skill
- already held communicate professionally with colleagues in other fields skill
- already held communicate with social service users skill
- already held company policies knowledge
- already held comply with legislation in social services skill
- already held conduct interview in social service skill
- already held contribute to protecting individuals from harm skill
- already held customer service knowledge
- already held deliver social services in diverse cultural communities skill
- already held demonstrate leadership in social service cases skill
- already held encourage social service users to preserve their independence in their daily activities skill
- already held follow health and safety precautions in social care practices skill
- already held involve service users and carers in care planning skill
- already held legal requirements in the social sector knowledge
- already held listen actively skill
- already held maintain privacy of service users skill
- already held maintain records of work with service users skill
- already held maintain the trust of service users skill
- already held manage social crisis skill
- already held manage stress in the work place skill
- already held meet standards of practice in social services skill
- already held monitor service users' health skill
- already held prevent social problems skill
- already held promote inclusion skill
- already held promote service users' rights skill
- already held promote social change skill
- already held protect vulnerable social service users skill
- already held provide social counselling skill
- already held refer service users to community resources skill
- already held relate empathetically skill
- already held report on social development skill
- already held review social service plan skill
- already held social justice knowledge
- already held social sciences knowledge
- already held support harmed social service users skill
- already held support service users in developing skills skill
- already held support service users to use technological aids skill
- already held support social service users in skills management skill
- already held support social service users with specific communication needs skill
- already held support social service users' positiveness skill
- already held tolerate stress skill
- already held undertake continuous professional development in social work skill
- already held undertake risk assessment of social service users skill
- already held work in a multicultural environment in health care skill
- already held work within communities skill
1 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held plan youth activities optional
2 held skills the child day care worker role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role advise on housing skill
- not needed by the target role support social service users to live at home skill
2 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 adolescent psychological development required
- required, not held child protection 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.