From housing support worker to residential home young people care worker
59 of the 64 essential skills of a residential home young people care worker are already essential for a housing support worker — about 92% 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.
- 59
- skills carry over
- 5
- would be new
- 92%
- of the target job covered
- 64
- essential skills of a residential home young people care worker
What a residential home young people care worker does
Residential home young people care workers provide assistance and support to young people who face complex emotional needs expressed in challenging behaviours. They support young adults with learning disabilities coping with school, encourage them to household activities and help them to take responsibility.
What carries over
59 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
- 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
- prevent social problems
- promote inclusion
- promote service users' rights
- promote social change
and 19 more
What would be new
5 skillsEssential for a residential home young people care worker and not for a housing support 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 housing support worker
2 roles- care home worker60 skills in common
- mental health support worker59 skills in common
← housing support workerresidential home young people care worker →The other way round
No account needed to start
How far are you from being a residential home young people care 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.