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Where a patient transport services driver can go next

4 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a patient transport services driver already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Patient transport services drivers transfer disabled, vulnerable and elderly patients to and from health care facilities such as hospitals or social care settings. They drive the ambulance and maintain all the related equipment but under non-emergency circumstances.

Also known as medical transport vehicle driver, patient transportation services driver, driver of patient transport vehicle, ambulance care assistant, patient transport driver, PTS driver, driver of medical transportation vehicle, driver in patient transport services, medical transport service assistant.

Plant and machine operators and assemblers 25 skills on file 4 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: emergency ambulance driver, 25%

Fig. 2 · Career map 4 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
emergency ambulance driver 25% covered emergency medical dispatcher 21% covered front line medical receptioni… 17% covered taxi driver 17% covered patient transport service… You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 4 nearest destinations from patient transport services driver, 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 patient transport services driver already covers. All 4 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step. Only 4 moves are listed. Few other occupations share enough of this job's skills for a fair comparison, and jobs that share almost all of them are left out as the same work under another name.

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A patient transport services driver needs 15 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
  • complete patient journey records management skills
  • drive ambulance under non-emergency conditions working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • transport allocated patients working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • transfer patients assisting and caring
  • licences regulation services
  • maintain vehicle service constructing
  • maintain vehicle appearance constructing
  • local geography natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
  • operate an emergency communication system working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • assist passengers assisting and caring
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

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Patient transport services driver is filed under Plant and machine operators and assemblers, ISCO major group 8. 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 patient transport services driver’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.