Where a covid tester can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a covid tester already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Covid testers perform Covid tests through nasal or throat swabs. They complement the sample information with health-related questions they ask the individuals, and input the data collected into digital devices.
Also known as testing support assistant, mobile screening nurse, covid community testing facilitator, coronavirus tester, testing supervisor, covid testing clinician, covid testing specialist.
Technicians and associate professionals 28 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: clinical coder, 36%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A covid tester needs 25 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- prevent communicable diseases' outbreaks communication, collaboration and creativity
- ensure safety regulations in dealing with infectious diseases assisting and caring
- perform PCR covid test working with machinery and specialised equipment
- collect biological samples from patients handling and moving
- implement data quality processes working with computers
- preserve samples handling and moving
- use electronic health records management system working with computers
- communicable diseases health and welfare
- infection control health and welfare
- health records management business, administration and law
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a covid tester does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- phlebotomist 42% covered · difficulty 62.6
- cytotechnologist 38% covered · difficulty 66.1
- anatomical pathology technician 35% covered · difficulty 68.4
- dietetic technician 35% covered · difficulty 69.1
- occupational therapy assistant 27% covered · difficulty 74.6
- picture archiving and communication systems administrator 27% covered · difficulty 74.3
- waiting list coordinator 27% covered · difficulty 74.1
- temperature screener 23% covered · difficulty 76.6
- healthcare inspector 19% covered · difficulty 79.7
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Covid tester is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a covid tester’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.