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Overview
Rehabilitation support workers help people handle personal, social and work-related consequences of disability, illness, accidents or burnout through counselling and rehabilitation planning.
In job descriptions, look for person-centred care, needs assessment, case management, rehabilitation plans, crisis intervention, safeguarding, job placement support and advocacy for service users.
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Open in Job ExplorerWhat the work can involve
Rehabilitation support workers help people manage the practical and personal effects of disability, illness, accident or burnout. The work can include counselling, needs assessment, rehabilitation plans, training support and help with social or vocational barriers. It requires careful case notes and respect for the service user’s own goals.
Skills and specializations
Useful skills include person-centred care, case management, crisis intervention, anti-oppressive practice, safeguarding, social work theory, disability care and advocacy. Some roles focus on return to work, stroke rehabilitation, youth support, home living support or trauma-informed work.
Salary context
Salary context depends on caseload complexity, level of autonomy, crisis duties, home visits, safeguarding responsibility and whether the role includes employment placement or specialised rehabilitation. A community support post and a structured case-management role should be compared through duties, not title alone.
Career paths
Career paths may begin in social care, support work, disability services or community programmes. Development can move toward rehabilitation coordination, social work, occupational therapy support, case management, youth services, safeguarding or team supervision. Strong adverts name the rehabilitation setting, service-user group, case records and partners involved in each plan.
Good to know
Vacancies should explain the client group, referral route, plan-writing duties and how risk is handled. Check whether the role includes counselling, home visits, employment support, multidisciplinary meetings, crisis response, safeguarding records and training for service users.
Editorial note
This guide is editorial career context. It is not official labour-market statistics or role-specific salary data.
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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: 3
Rehabilitation Counselors
21-1015.00
Exact relationship
The official mapping treats the O*NET and ESCO occupations as closely equivalent.
Open in O*NETLow Vision Therapists, Orientation and Mobility Specialists, and Vision Rehabilitation Therapists
29-1122.01
Close relationship
The occupations are closely related, but the official mapping does not treat them as exact equivalents.
Open in O*NETOccupational Therapy Assistants
31-2011.00
O*NET occupation is broader
The O*NET occupation covers a broader field of work than this ESCO occupation.
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Alternative labels
Occupation group
social worker (2635.3)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/dc69f2ed-ebe9-43da-bf9d-31aac874d4c2 |
|---|---|
| ESCO code | 2635.3.22 |
| ISCO group | 2635 |
| Concept type | Occupation |