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Overview
Housing support worker work is about helping people who need support with housing, daily stability and access to social services, including older people, disabled people and people leaving homelessness or addiction.
In job descriptions, look for housing advice, person-centred support, assessing service users, social-service documentation, advocacy, complaints support, community activities and communication with other services.
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Search jobsWhat the work can involve
Housing support workers help people maintain or regain stable living conditions. Work can include housing advice, daily-life support, contact with social services, documenting needs, helping with complaints and supporting community participation.
Skills and specializations
Useful skills include person-centred care, assessing a service user’s situation, housing advice, advocacy, professional communication across services, social-service documentation and problem solving when needs change.
Salary context
Salary context depends on user group, shift pattern, lone-working expectations, case complexity, documentation load, coordination with other services and responsibility for safeguarding or crisis situations.
Career paths
Development can lead toward senior support roles, social care coordination, housing advice, rehabilitation support, homelessness services or team leadership. Experience with assessment, documentation and multi-service cooperation is valuable.
Good to know
Check which user groups the advert names, whether work is home visits, supported accommodation or office-based support, and what documentation is expected. Look for boundaries around personal care, crisis response, complaints and cooperation with social workers or healthcare staff.
Editorial note
This guide is editorial career context. It is not official labour-market statistics or role-specific salary data.
Where might this occupation occur?
This occupation may occur in several kinds of economic activity. Here are some examples and other occupations that may be found in the same areas.
Other social work activities without accommodation n.e.c.
This is one example. Other occupations in this activity include social care worker, adult community care worker and family support worker.
Explore this activityThese examples offer an overview but do not show every economic activity where the occupation may occur.
About this information
The selection is based on how occupations are connected to economic activities in ESCO and NACE. Only a few examples are shown to make the information easier to use. The occupations were selected because they are close in occupation area and important skills. The examples are not a ranking. They do not show where most people work, where demand is highest, or which occupation is best suited to a particular person.
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Click the map to search for housing support worker jobs. Figures come from EURES. Searches open national sources where available, so counts may differ.
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O*NET relationships
See occupations connected to this ESCO occupation in the official O*NET–ESCO mapping. The relationship type comes from the source and is not a ranking or recommendation.
O*NET relationships: 1
Community and Social Service Specialists, All Other
21-1099.00
O*NET occupation is broader
The O*NET occupation covers a broader field of work than this ESCO occupation.
Open in O*NETSource and method
These relationships come from the official European Commission O*NET–ESCO crosswalk.
Mapping project version 1: O*NET-SOC 2019 → ESCO 1.1.0. Targets are validated against ESCO 1.2.1.
Source: European Commission, joint ESCO Secretariat and USDOL/ETA project. O*NET Database: USDOL/ETA. This presentation uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission.
Relationship direction: O*NET occupation to ESCO occupation.
Several O*NET occupations can point to the same ESCO occupation, and one O*NET occupation can point to several ESCO occupations.
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Official sources and licenses
NACE Rev. 2.1
Economic activities linked to this occupation.
88.99Other social work activities without accommodation n.e.c.
Alternative labels
Occupation group
social care worker (3412.4)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/4edbde9f-218e-49c7-812f-c45262fb4128 |
|---|---|
| ESCO code | 3412.4.7 |
| ISCO group | 3412 |
| Concept type | Occupation |