From community health worker to mental health support worker
11 of the 65 essential skills of a mental health support worker are already essential for a community health worker — about 17% 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.
- 11
- skills carry over
- 54
- would be new
- 17%
- of the target job covered
- 65
- essential skills of a mental health support worker
What a mental health support worker does
Mental health support workers assist and provide treatment to people with mental, emotional, or substance abuse problems. They focus on personalised cases and monitor the recovery process of their clients, providing also therapy, crisis intervention, client advocacy and education.
What carries over
11 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- apply decision making within social work
- apply quality standards in social services
- assess social service users' situation
- build helping relationship with social service users
- communicate with social service users
- deliver social services in diverse cultural communities
- legal requirements in the social sector
- maintain records of work with service users
- provide social counselling
- relate empathetically
- review social service plan
What would be new
54 skillsEssential for a mental health support worker and not for a community health worker. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- accept own accountability
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- adolescent psychological development
- advocate for social service users
- apply holistic approach within social services
- apply organisational techniques
- apply person-centred care
- apply problem solving in social service
- apply socially just working principles
- 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
- communicate professionally with colleagues in other fields
- company policies
- comply with legislation in social services
- conduct interview in social service
- contribute to protecting individuals from harm
- customer service
- demonstrate leadership in social service cases
- diagnose psychiatric symptoms
- 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
- listen actively
- maintain privacy of 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
- refer service users to community resources
- report on social development
and 14 more
Other moves from community health worker
2 roles- community social worker12 skills in common
- criminal justice social worker12 skills in common
← community health workermental health support worker →The other way round
No account needed to start
How far are you from being a mental health support 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.