Occupation Atlassocial work assistant
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/4fa660b3-ab97-4a99-ad73-ce3c2612f2c3
social work assistant
Social work assistants are practice-based professionals who promote social change and development, social cohesion, and the empowerment and liberation of people. Social work assistants assist guiding staff, helping clients to use services to claim benefits, access community resources, find jobs and training, obtain legal advice or deal with other local authority departments. They assist and work together with social workers.
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Job Zone
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- 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
SCESocial · Conventional · Enterprising — the three strongest interests, in order
- S Social6.09
- C Conventional4.57
- E Enterprising3.61
- I Investigative2.80
- A Artistic1.95
- R Realistic1.28
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 Social and Human Service Assistants (21-1093.00): 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 (24)
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.
- apply person-centred care
- apply problem solving in social service
- apply quality standards in social services
- assess social service users' situation
- build helping relationship with social service users
- communicate professionally with colleagues in other fields
- communicate with social service users
- contribute to protecting individuals from harm
- deliver social services in diverse cultural communities
- follow health and safety precautions in social care practices
- listen actively
- maintain records of work with service users
- manage ethical issues within social services
- manage social crisis
- meet standards of practice in social services
- plan social service process
- prevent social problems
- promote service users' rights
- protect vulnerable social service users
- provide social counselling
- provide support to social services users
- relate empathetically
- review social service plan
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
Optional (28)
- adolescent psychological development
- apply crisis intervention
- apply holistic approach within social services
- assess clients' drug and alcohol addictions
- assist families in crisis situations
- client-centred counselling
- communicate by telephone
- communication
- community education
- comply with legislation related to health care
- conduct interview in social service
- consultation
- counselling methods
- crisis intervention
- develop professional identity in social work
- developmental psychology
- empower individuals, families and groups
- empower social service users
- engage with offenders
- give constructive feedback
- health care system
- identify mental health issues
- legal requirements in the social sector
- plan schedule
- promote inclusion
- social sciences
- social work theory
- use foreign languages in patient care
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 24 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
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