Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a hospital porter can go next

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

Hospital porters are professional healthcare assistants who transport people on stretchers around the hospital site, as well as and items.

Also known as porter, general porter, hospital stretcher bearer, hospital portering staff member, hospital stretcher carrier, stretcher carrier, hospital portering service provider, general hospital porter, stretcher bearer, hospital portering.

Service and sales workers 46 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: paramedic in emergency responses, 51%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
paramedic in emergency respon… 51% covered emergency ambulance driver 42% covered dental hygienist 37% covered healthcare assistant 36% covered emergency medical dispatcher 33% covered hospital porter You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from hospital porter, 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 hospital porter already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

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

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A hospital porter needs 39 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
  • adapt to emergency care environment communication, collaboration and creativity
  • disorders of vital functions health and welfare
  • employ specific paramedic techniques in out-of-hospital care assisting and caring
  • immobilise patients for emergency intervention assisting and caring
  • principles of paramedic practice health and welfare
  • conduct physical examination in emergency information skills
  • position patients undergoing interventions assisting and caring
  • prioritise emergencies management skills
  • transfer patients to and from ambulance vehicles assisting and caring
  • emergency cases health and welfare
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Hospital porter is filed under Service and sales workers, ISCO major group 5. The full index lists all ten groups.

Note

How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a hospital porter’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.