Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a midwife can go next

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

Midwives assist women in childbirth by providing the necessary support, care and advice during pregnancy, labour and the postpartum period, conduct births and provide care for the new-born. They advise on health, preventive measures, preparation for parenthood, detection of complications in mother and child, accessing of medical care, promoting normal birth and carrying out emergency measures.

Also known as community midwife, foetal nurse, neonatal nurse practitioner, consultant midwife, obstetric nurse, intensive care neonatal nurse, head of midwifery services, pre-natal nurse, maternity nurse, midwife researcher, childbirth assistant.

Professionals 88 skills on file 12 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: maternity support worker, 74%

Fig. 2 · Career map 6 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
maternity support worker 74% covered healthcare assistant 56% covered physiotherapy assistant 51% covered dental hygienist 50% covered dental technician 50% covered specialist pharmacist 49% covered midwife You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 6 nearest destinations from midwife, 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 midwife already covers. All 12 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 midwife needs 73 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
  • carry out treatment prescribed by doctors assisting and caring
  • conduct spontaneous child deliveries assisting and caring
  • lactation health and welfare
  • postpartum legal protection business, administration and law
  • provide care for the mother during labour assisting and caring
  • provide information on the effects of childbirth on sexuality assisting and caring
  • provide pregnancy termination care assisting and caring
  • support informed consent communication, collaboration and creativity
  • take emergency measures in pregnancy assisting and caring
  • advise on childbirth communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Midwife is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. 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 midwife’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.