Skills
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Overview
Community health workers give health advice and practical information to people in the community, including support around nutrition, smoking cessation and care before or after birth.
In job descriptions, look for community education, public health campaigns, social counselling, records of work with service users, group sessions, cultural-community work and prevention programmes.
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Open in Job ExplorerWhat the work can involve
Community health workers meet people through community services, outreach activities and prevention programmes. Work may include health conversations, group sessions, records of contact and referrals when someone needs more specialised support.
Skills and specializations
Useful strengths include explaining health topics clearly, building trust, working across cultures, keeping service-user records and supporting public health campaigns, nutrition sessions or pregnancy advice.
Salary context
Salary context depends on programme size, outreach responsibility, supervision, record keeping, target group complexity and whether the role includes campaign planning or only direct community support. This guide does not provide salary amounts.
Career paths
Experience can lead toward public health coordination, community programme work, social-service case support, health-promotion roles or specialised outreach around nutrition, mental health or pregnancy support.
Good to know
Check whether vacancies name the community group, health topics, group sessions, record systems, referral routines and campaign work. These details show how advisory, social-service or prevention-focused the role is.
Editorial note
This guide is editorial career context. It is not official labour-market statistics or role-specific salary data.
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Community health workers (3253)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/c7ad889f-10fc-4346-b740-bd479ad82b47 |
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| ESCO code | 3253.1 |
| ISCO group | 3253 |
| Concept type | Occupation |