Beyond the prescribed profile: documenting the multilevel work of the Educatore Professionale A work-psychology reading of the Italian Educatore Professionale in a European frame.

The Italian Educatore Professionale is a specific, regulated qualification: a qualifying three-year health degree, taken in a faculty of Medicine and completed by registration with a professional order, and defined since 1998 as a rehabilitation profession. A distinct, socio-pedagogical educator, trained in the education faculties, exists alongside it. This health location is a solid foundation and a partial one. When documentation records only the technical, individual-level intervention, the social and community dimension of the work becomes invisible, and with it the specificity of the profession. Drawing on the clinical psychology of work, and in particular the distinction between prescribed and real work (Dejours), this paper argues that the real work of the Educatore Professionale systematically exceeds its prescription, extending across five levels: individual, group, organisation, community and territory. It proposes multilevel documentation as a device, used in training, for rendering that excess visible and communicable. Read through European frameworks (AIEJI, ESCO, ICF, LifeComp, RFCDC) and the model of integrated people-centred care, the Italian health-based tradition emerges not as provincial but as a full interlocutor. The argument is deliberately complementary to outcome measurement rather than opposed to it: documentation captures what indicators leave out. The paper further observes that this excess has widened over time, as services have moved towards integration and community while the prescribed profile has not. Implications for training, service documentation and professional recognition are outlined.