Occupation Atlasdisability support worker
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/9c55aa23-e3f2-4c00-8c90-5ed5204951a3
disability support worker
Disability support workers provide personal assistance and support to individuals of all ages with disability conditions, either intellectual or physical disabilities. They work with other health professionals to maximise individuals physical and mental well being. Their duties include bathing, lifting, moving, dressing or feeding people with disability.
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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, 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 (63)
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
- advocate for social service users
- apply a holistic approach in care
- 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
- assist social service users in formulating complaints
- assist social service users with physical disabilities
- build helping relationship with social service users
- communicate professionally with colleagues in other fields
- communicate with social service users
- company policies
- comply with legislation in social services
- 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
- disability care
- disability types
- encourage social service users to preserve their independence in their daily activities
- 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
- perform cleaning duties
- prevent social problems
- promote inclusion
- promote service users' rights
- promote social change
- protect vulnerable social service users
- provide in-home support for disabled individuals
- provide social counselling
- refer service users to community resources
- relate empathetically
- report on social development
- review social service plan
- social sciences
- support harmed social service users
- support individuals to adjust to physical disability
- 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
- 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 63 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
social care worker
57 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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residential home adult care worker
57 shared · 3 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
57 shared · 4 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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housing support worker
57 shared · 4 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 older adult care worker
57 shared · 4 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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care home worker
57 shared · 5 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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family support worker
57 shared · 5 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 young people care worker
57 shared · 7 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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