Occupation Atlasfoster care support worker
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/1f5932eb-b36d-44e1-a063-7aa9e228af51
foster care support worker
Foster care support workers assist and support mentally or physically abused children to be legally separated from their parents. They help them to recover by placing them in appropriate families and making sure that the children welfare is a priority.
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Job Zone
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- 3
- 4
- 5
Zone 4: Considerable Preparation Needed
Considerable preparation. Usually a bachelor's degree plus several years of work-related experience, knowledge, or training.
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
SCISocial · Conventional · Investigative — the three strongest interests, in order
- S Social6.85
- C Conventional3.57
- I Investigative3.32
- E Enterprising2.94
- A Artistic2.90
- R Realistic1.70
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 Child, Family, and School Social Workers (21-1021.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, a broader O*NET occupation that includes this one, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (70)
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.
- accept own accountability
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- adolescent psychological development
- advocate for social service users
- apply decision making within social work
- apply holistic approach within social services
- apply organisational techniques
- apply person-centred care
- apply problem solving in social service
- apply quality standards in social services
- apply socially just working principles
- assess social service users' situation
- assess the development of youth
- assist individuals with disabilities in community activities
- assist social service users in formulating complaints
- assist social service users with physical disabilities
- build helping relationship with social service users
- child protection
- communicate professionally with colleagues in other fields
- communicate with social service users
- company policies
- comply with legislation in social services
- conduct foster care visits
- conduct interview in social service
- contribute to protecting individuals from harm
- customer service
- deliver social services in diverse cultural communities
- demonstrate leadership in social service cases
- determine child welfare
- encourage social service users to preserve their independence in their daily activities
- evaluate prospective foster parents
- follow health and safety precautions in social care practices
- involve service users and carers in care planning
- legal requirements in the social sector
- listen actively
- maintain privacy of service users
- maintain records of work with service users
- maintain the trust of service users
- manage social crisis
- manage stress in the work place
- meet standards of practice in social services
- monitor service users' health
- prepare youths for adulthood
- prevent social problems
- promote inclusion
- promote service users' rights
- promote social change
- promote the safeguarding of young people
- protect vulnerable social service users
- provide social counselling
- refer service users to community resources
- relate empathetically
- report on social development
- review social service plan
- social justice
- social sciences
- support children's wellbeing
- support harmed social service users
- support service users in developing skills
- support service users to use technological aids
- support social service users in skills management
- support social service users with specific communication needs
- support social service users' positiveness
- support the positiveness of youths
- support traumatised children
- tolerate stress
- undertake continuous professional development in social work
- undertake risk assessment of social service users
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work within communities
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 70 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
child welfare worker
67 shared · 3 more of its ownchild protection, assist social service users in formulating complaints, determine child welfare, encourage social service users to preserve their independence in their daily activities
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child day care worker
67 shared · 6 more of its ownchild protection, assist social service users in formulating complaints, determine child welfare, encourage social service users to preserve their independence in their daily activities
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residential childcare worker
66 shared · 1 more of its ownassist social service users in formulating complaints, determine child welfare, encourage social service users to preserve their independence in their daily activities, monitor service users' health
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residential home young people care worker
64 shared · 0 more of its ownassist social service users in formulating complaints, encourage social service users to preserve their independence in their daily activities, monitor service users' health, refer service users to community resources
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mental health support worker
64 shared · 1 more of its ownassist social service users in formulating complaints, encourage social service users to preserve their independence in their daily activities, monitor service users' health, refer service users to community resources
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social care worker
59 shared · 0 more of its ownassist social service users in formulating complaints, encourage social service users to preserve their independence in their daily activities, monitor service users' health, refer service users to community resources
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residential home adult care worker
59 shared · 1 more of its ownassist social service users in formulating complaints, encourage social service users to preserve their independence in their daily activities, monitor service users' health, refer service users to community resources
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adult community care worker
59 shared · 2 more of its ownassist social service users in formulating complaints, encourage social service users to preserve their independence in their daily activities, monitor service users' health, refer service users to community resources
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