Community health worker

Code 3253.1

Community health workers provide advice and information about various health subjects to the community. They can assist with pre- and post-natal care, give nutritional advice and help individuals stop smoking. Community health workers develop health and prevention programmes.

Essential skills

Knowledge

  • Promoción de la salud y prevención de enfermedades
  • community education
  • legal requirements in the social sector

Skills and competences

  • Elaborar informes técnicos para audiencias de salud
  • apply knowledge of human behaviour
  • apply quality standards in social services
  • communicate with social service users
  • build community relations
  • build helping relationship with social service users
  • assess social service users' situation
  • maintain records of work with service users
  • review social service plan
  • apply decision making within social work

Transversal competences

  • deliver social services in diverse cultural communities
  • provide social counselling
  • relate empathetically

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Sources

This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences