Occupation Atlashome care aide
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/1391bdf9-bd61-4fb5-91ca-c29036ab2b60
home care aide
Home care aides provide personal assistance and promote autonomy, on a daily basis to individuals who are unable to take care of themselves due to illness, ageing or disability. They assist them with personal hygiene, feeding, communication or medication according to the health care professional's instructions.
Job Zone
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
Zone 2: Some Preparation Needed
Some preparation. Usually a high school diploma, some previous work-related skill or experience, and a few months to a year of training with experienced workers.
Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.
Occupational interest profile
SRCSocial · Realistic · Conventional — the three strongest interests, in order
- S Social6.33
- R Realistic4.23
- C Conventional3.51
- I Investigative3.18
- E Enterprising1.77
- A Artistic1.48
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Home Health Aides (31-1121.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its exact O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (23)
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.
- accompany people
- apply first response
- assist clients with special needs
- assist disable passengers
- assist social service users with physical disabilities
- buy groceries
- disability care
- disability types
- evaluate older adults' ability to take care of themselves
- first response
- iron textiles
- keep company
- make the beds
- monitor patient's health condition
- older adults' needs
- prepare ready-made dishes
- prepare sandwiches
- provide in-home support for disabled individuals
- support individuals to adjust to physical disability
- support social service users to live at home
- tend to elderly people
- wash the dishes
- wash the laundry
Optional (27)
- administer appointments
- advise on healthy lifestyles
- assess risks for the elderly
- assist individuals with disabilities in community activities
- clean household linens
- clean rooms
- clean surfaces
- communicate with customers
- feed pets
- food allergies
- handle linen in stock
- hearing disability
- lift heavy weights
- listen actively
- mobility disability
- prepare dietary meals
- prevent domestic accidents
- promote healthy lifestyle
- promote prevention of social isolation
- provide dog walking services
- provide first aid
- remove dust
- use cooking techniques
- use food preparation techniques
- vacuum surfaces
- visual disability
- work ergonomically
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 23 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
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domestic cleaner
4 shared · 16 more of its ownwash the dishes, make the beds, wash the laundry, iron textiles
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domestic housekeeper
4 shared · 19 more of its ownmake the beds, wash the laundry, buy groceries, iron textiles
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care home worker
4 shared · 58 more of its ownsupport social service users to live at home, evaluate older adults' ability to take care of themselves, assist social service users with physical disabilities, older adults' needs
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rehabilitation support worker
4 shared · 63 more of its ownsupport individuals to adjust to physical disability, evaluate older adults' ability to take care of themselves, disability care, disability types
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adult community care worker
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residential home older adult care worker
3 shared · 58 more of its ownevaluate older adults' ability to take care of themselves, assist social service users with physical disabilities, older adults' needs
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