Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a healthcare consultant can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a healthcare consultant already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Healthcare consultants advise health care organisations on the development of plans to improve patient care and safety. They analyse health care policies and identify issues, and aid in the development of improvement strategies.

Also known as management consultant, healthcare advisor, healthcare management adivsor, healthcare management consultant, retirement healthcare advisor.

Professionals 32 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: healthcare institution manager, 51%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
healthcare institution manager 51% covered employment programme coordina… 43% covered youth programme director 37% covered social service consultant 35% covered regional development policy o… 34% covered healthcare consultant You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from healthcare consultant, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a healthcare consultant already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A healthcare consultant needs 14 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • assess health services within the community information skills
  • advise policy makers in healthcare communication, collaboration and creativity
  • implement policy in healthcare practices communication, collaboration and creativity
  • healthcare analytics health and welfare
  • healthcare administration business, administration and law
  • contribute to public health campaigns management skills
  • manage healthcare staff business, administration and law
  • public health health and welfare
  • health care system services
  • analyse community needs communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a healthcare consultant does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Healthcare consultant is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a healthcare consultant’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.