From adult community care worker to care home worker
61 of the 62 essential skills of a care home worker are already essential for a adult community care worker — about 98% of the job, before you learn anything new.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 61
- skills carry over
- 1
- would be new
- 98%
- of the target job covered
- 62
- essential skills of a care home worker
What a care home worker does
Care home workers provide domiciliary services to vulnerable adults including frail elderly or disabled people who are living with physical impairment or convalescing, following a specific plan to provide day-to-day care to clients. They look after the physical and mental wellbeing of clients by providing them social care. These services could be developed in residential homes, care homes or in the patient's home. In relation to this last case, they aim to improve patients' lives in the community and assure patients can live safely and independently in their own home.
What carries over
61 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- accept own accountability
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- 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
- 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
- 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
- encourage social service users to preserve their independence in their daily activities
- evaluate older adults' ability to take care of themselves
- 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
- older adults' needs
- prevent social problems
- promote inclusion
and 21 more
What would be new
1 skillsEssential for a care home worker and not for a adult community care worker. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
Other moves from adult community care worker
2 roles- residential home older adult care worker61 skills in common
- mental health support worker59 skills in common
← adult community care workercare home worker →The other way round
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How far are you from being a care home worker?
MyNodes reads your CV once, maps it to this same taxonomy, and shows you which roles you are already closest to and the few skills that would open the most doors. The file is deleted as soon as it has been read.