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Social Auxiliary Worker
OFO Code: 341203
Last checked 7 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 341203
- Occupation
- Social Auxiliary Worker
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- TECHNICIANS AND ASSOCIATE PROFESSIONALS
- Unit group
- 3412 · Social Work Associate Professionals
Official description
Social work associate professionals administer and implement social assistance programs and community services and assist clients to deal with personal and social problems.
More official OFO detail
Specialisations: Community Service Worker, Crisis Intervention Worker, Family Service Worker, Life Skills Instructor, Welfare Support Worker, Women's Shelter Supervisor, Mental Health Worker
- Collecting information relevant to clients’ needs and assessing their relevant skills, strengths and deficits
- Assisting clients to identify options and develop plans of action while providing necessary support and assistance
- Participating in the selection and admission of clients to appropriate programs
- Counselling clients living in group homes and half-way houses, supervising their activities and assisting in pre-release and release planning
- Providing crisis intervention and emergency shelter services
- Maintaining contact with other social service agencies, schools and health care providers involved with clients to provide information and obtain feedback on clients' overall situation and progress
- Assisting in evaluating the effectiveness of interventions and programs by monitoring and reporting on clients' progress
- Assisting clients to identify and access community resources including legal, medical and financial assistance housing, employment, transportation, assistance with moves, day care and other referral services
- Helping persons with disabilities or the elderly to obtain services and to improve their ability to function in society
- Implementing life skills workshops, substance abuse treatment programs, behaviour management programs, youth services programs and other community and social service programs under the supervision of social work or health care professionals
2. Demand status
Demand evidence unavailable
No approved governed OIHD graph relationship is available on this deployment for this OFO code.
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3. Salary evidence
No approved governed salary observation or sourced snapshot salary record is available for this OFO code yet.
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5. Qualification
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7. Industry, sector and provincial context
National occupation classification. Industry and provincial context are shown only where a separate official source supports the link.
No source-backed modern OFO↔SIC 7 industry link has been ingested for this occupation yet. PathLens does not infer one from the job title.
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9. Decision tools
10. Sources for this page
- DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Ingested · identity spine active
Canonical OFO identity data has been ingested and validated. 1511 occupation records are recorded in the ingest artifact. - DHET Occupations in High Demand · Validated pipeline · graph publication not confirmed
The governed OIHD pipeline is active, but a successful populated graph run is not currently confirmed on this deployment. - Critical Skills List · Monitored · occupation linkage pending
Official migration sources are monitored, but PathLens does not infer visa eligibility or occupation-level eligibility from monitoring alone. - QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Candidate staging ready · not published
Qualification staging and human review are implemented; no qualification↔OFO relationship is published without an explicit source identifier or governed human review. - Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Acquisition active · no approved evidence on this deployment
Official QLFS artifact discovery is active. Dataset-specific schema, weighting, reliability and review gates remain separate; a discovered artifact or executable estimator does not itself create a public claim. - SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Partial · explicit source links only
PathLens preserves explicit source-backed SETA/activity links where present and does not infer modern SIC relationships from occupation titles.