From social pedagogue to foster care support worker
30 of the 70 essential skills of a foster care support worker are already essential for a social pedagogue — about 43% of the job, before you learn anything new. It is the closest move from social pedagogue in the whole taxonomy.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 30
- skills carry over
- 40
- would be new
- 43%
- of the target job covered
- 70
- essential skills of a foster care support worker
What a foster care support worker does
Foster care support workers assist and support mentally or physically abused children to be legally separated from their parents. They help them to recover by placing them in appropriate families and making sure that the children welfare is a priority.
What carries over
30 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- accept own accountability
- adolescent psychological development
- apply holistic approach within social services
- apply person-centred care
- apply quality standards in social services
- apply socially just working principles
- assess social service users' situation
- assess the development of youth
- communicate professionally with colleagues in other fields
- communicate with social service users
- deliver social services in diverse cultural communities
- demonstrate leadership in social service cases
- determine child welfare
- follow health and safety precautions in social care practices
- legal requirements in the social sector
- listen actively
- maintain records of work with service users
- manage social crisis
- manage stress in the work place
- prepare youths for adulthood
- promote social change
- promote the safeguarding of young people
- relate empathetically
- report on social development
- social justice
- social sciences
- support children's wellbeing
- support the positiveness of youths
- support traumatised children
- undertake continuous professional development in social work
What would be new
40 skillsEssential for a foster care support worker and not for a social pedagogue. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- advocate for social service users
- apply decision making within social work
- apply organisational techniques
- apply problem solving in social service
- 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
- child protection
- company policies
- comply with legislation in social services
- conduct foster care visits
- conduct interview in social service
- contribute to protecting individuals from harm
- customer service
- encourage social service users to preserve their independence in their daily activities
- evaluate prospective foster parents
- involve service users and carers in care planning
- maintain privacy of service users
- maintain the trust of service users
- meet standards of practice in social services
- monitor service users' health
- prevent social problems
- promote inclusion
- promote service users' rights
- protect vulnerable social service users
- provide social counselling
- refer service users to community resources
- review social service plan
- support harmed social service users
- 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 risk assessment of social service users
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work within communities
Other moves from social pedagogue
2 roles- child welfare worker30 skills in common
- education welfare officer30 skills in common
← social pedagoguefoster care support worker →The other way round
No account needed to start
How far are you from being a foster care 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.