homelessness worker

Homelessness workers provide on-the-spot assistance, counselling and advice to people who have housing problems or live on the streets. They present them with services available to homeless people starting from hostel vacancies to financial aid services. They may have to cope with persons with mental health problems, addictions or victims of domestic or sexual abuse.

The most in-demand skills for this role include social work theory, legal requirements in the social sector, social sciences, older adults' needs, social justice, company policies. These are the skills O*NET identifies as most important for competent performance.

Our AI-durability model gives homelessness worker a score of 0.50 on a 0-1 scale (higher = more exposure). That places it at moderate AI exposure — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. Learning to work with AI tools rather than against them is the path forward.