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Occupation

Home care workers

Home care workers provide services to people within their homes who require help with personal care and activities of daily living support such as bathing and dressing. Home care workers may also provide help with tasks such as preparing meals, light housekeeping and laundry. Workers in this group may reside with those in their care. See also 4215/02 - Personal assistants (excludes care workers)

Based on analysing 7299 job ads this job spends 0.0% of the time doing green tasks. A job advert for this occupation has on average 9 skills asked for, of which 0.5% are green skills. The pay band for this job is between £20,475 - £23,400.

Top regions

At the point of upload, job adverts are tagged with a specific location. These locations are standardised to ITL 2 (International Territory Levels) codes. For each ITL region, we divide the proportion of job adverts for an occupation by the proportion for all occupations - this gives us a measure of which regions have proportionally more or less job adverts for each occupation - we call this the "location quotient". We display the ITL regions with the highest location quotients for this occupation.

Highlands and Islands
Southern Scotland
Dorset and Somerset
West Wales and The Valleys
Eastern Scotland

Top green skills for this occupation

For each job advert we extract the green skills it asks for. We display the 5 most commonly asked for green skills for this occupation.

Manage habitats

Found in 45 job ads (22.0%)

Perform cleaning activities in an environmentally friendly way

Found in 42 job ads (20.5%)

Identify energy needs

Found in 29 job ads (14.1%)

Ensure the safety of endangered species and protected areas

Found in 17 job ads (8.3%)

Safety engineering

Found in 12 job ads (5.9%)

Top skills for this occupation

For each job advert we extract the skills it asks for. We display the 5 most commonly asked for skills (green or not) for this occupation.

Assisting and caring

Found in 1236 job ads (4.2%)

Prepared meals

Found in 994 job ads (3.4%)

Demonstrate enthusiasm

Found in 895 job ads (3.1%)

Communication

Found in 869 job ads (3.0%)

Involve service users and carers in care planning

Found in 698 job ads (2.4%)

Industries

We extract industry information from job adverts using the way the company is described in the advert. We display the most common industries job adverts in this occupation are linked to.

Residential care activities for the elderly and disabled

Found in 1070 job ads (22.6%)

Human health activities

Found in 751 job ads (15.8%)

Services to buildings and landscape activities

Found in 290 job ads (6.1%)

Residential care activities for learning disabilities, mental health and substance abuse

Found in 247 job ads (5.2%)

Financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding

Found in 225 job ads (4.7%)
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About this analysis

This analysis has been compiled by measuring the greenness of online job adverts. You can read more about the methodology here.