From victim support officer to hospital social worker
62 of the 69 essential skills of a hospital social worker are already essential for a victim support officer — about 90% 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.
- 62
- skills carry over
- 7
- would be new
- 90%
- of the target job covered
- 69
- essential skills of a hospital social worker
What a hospital social worker does
Hospital social workers provide counselling to patients and their families helping them to better cope with the illness, the emotions surrounding diagnosis, and with social and financial problems. They work in cooperation with doctors, nurses and other health professionals sensitising them on the emotional aspects of a patient. They act as link between patients and medical staff. Hospital social workers also support the patients and their families with the discharge from the hospital.
What carries over
62 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- accept own accountability
- address problems critically
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- advocate for social service users
- apply anti-oppressive practices
- apply case management
- apply crisis intervention
- 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
- build helping relationship with social service users
- communicate professionally with colleagues in other fields
- communicate with social service users
- company policies
- conduct interview in social service
- consider social impact of actions on service users
- contribute to protecting individuals from harm
- cooperate at inter-professional level
- crisis intervention
- deliver social services in diverse cultural communities
- demonstrate leadership in social service cases
- develop professional identity in social work
- develop professional network
- empower social service users
- follow health and safety precautions in social care practices
- have computer literacy
- involve service users and carers in care planning
- legal requirements in the social sector
- listen actively
- maintain records of work with service users
- make legislation transparent for users of social services
- manage ethical issues within social services
- manage social crisis
- manage stress in the work place
- meet standards of practice in social services
and 22 more
What would be new
7 skillsEssential for a hospital social worker and not for a victim support officer. 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 victim support officer
2 roles- military welfare worker62 skills in common
- crisis situation social worker62 skills in common
← victim support officerhospital social worker →The other way round
No account needed to start
How far are you from being a hospital social 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.