Occupation Atlaslegal guardian
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/021663ca-a367-472e-a1f0-6d8ab5b2d860
legal guardian
Legal guardians legally assist and support minor children, mentally disabled persons or incapacitated older adults in their personal life. They can manage their property, help with daily financial administration and assist with the ward's medical or social needs.
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Job Zone
No Job Zone on file. ESCO doesn’t publish one, and none of its O*NET matches below carries one either.
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Typically associated skills
Essential (14)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- advocate for social service users
- apply person-centred care
- assist with personal administration issues
- contribute to protecting individuals from harm
- determine child welfare
- family law
- first aid
- give advice on personal matters
- legal requirements in the social sector
- listen actively
- maintain the trust of service users
- personal development
- private law
- provide first aid
Optional (15)
- assess the development of youth
- assist children in developing personal skills
- assist children with homework
- assist individuals with disabilities in community activities
- attend to children's basic physical needs
- disability care
- handle children's problems
- maintain relations with children's parents
- older adults' needs
- play with children
- provide in-home support for disabled individuals
- screen clients
- support children's wellbeing
- support traumatised children
- tend to elderly people
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
Closest occupations
Compare any occupation →ESCO occupations that share the most of this occupation's 14 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
family support worker
7 shared · 55 more of its ownfamily law, maintain the trust of service users, contribute to protecting individuals from harm, advocate for social service users
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residential childcare worker
7 shared · 60 more of its owndetermine child welfare, maintain the trust of service users, contribute to protecting individuals from harm, advocate for social service users
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child welfare worker
7 shared · 63 more of its owndetermine child welfare, maintain the trust of service users, contribute to protecting individuals from harm, advocate for social service users
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foster care support worker
7 shared · 63 more of its owndetermine child welfare, maintain the trust of service users, contribute to protecting individuals from harm, advocate for social service users
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child day care worker
7 shared · 66 more of its owndetermine child welfare, maintain the trust of service users, contribute to protecting individuals from harm, advocate for social service users
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social care worker
6 shared · 53 more of its ownmaintain the trust of service users, contribute to protecting individuals from harm, advocate for social service users, apply person-centred care
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residential home adult care worker
6 shared · 54 more of its ownmaintain the trust of service users, contribute to protecting individuals from harm, advocate for social service users, apply person-centred care
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adult community care worker
6 shared · 55 more of its ownmaintain the trust of service users, contribute to protecting individuals from harm, advocate for social service users, apply person-centred care
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