Career Overlap Transition record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
Table 1Transition record

child care coordinatortoprimary school teaching assistant

A child care coordinator already meets 29% of what the primary school teaching assistant role asks for. The move turns on 12 required skills not yet in the profile.

From child care coordinator
29%
Overlap1
To primary school teaching assistant
11 Skills carried over
12 Required, not held
69.5 Difficulty2
Career overlap Distant match

29%

Learning distance Substantial retraining

69.5/ 100

1 Share of the primary school teaching assistant role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the child care coordinator profile. Required skills count in full, supplementary skills at 0.35. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. 2 Combines what is missing with how specialised it is, so a gap of general skills scores easier than the same number of narrow ones.

Why

Why this move works

A primary school teaching assistant role treats 6 of its required skills as things a child care coordinator already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • assist children in developing personal skills
  • handle children's problems
  • implement care programmes for children
  • perform playground surveillance
  • primary school procedures
  • support children's wellbeing

What stands in the way is 12 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.

Table 2

Table 2 · What you already bring

Of the 11 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A primary school teaching assistant role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a child care coordinator background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held provide after school care assisting and caring
  • already held assist children in developing personal skills assisting and caring
  • already held implement care programmes for children assisting and caring
  • already held primary school procedures education
  • already held handle children's problems assisting and caring
  • already held maintain relations with children's parents communication, collaboration and creativity

All 11 carried skills, including the 6 the primary school teaching assistant role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 31 missing skills fall into 7 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered below in the order worth working in: the areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the supplementary ones.

Skill to acquire Tier
01 communication, collaboration and creativity 7 required, 5 supplementary
  • required, not held assist students in their learning required
  • required, not held give constructive feedback required
  • required, not held manage student relationships required
  • required, not held prepare youths for adulthood required
  • required, not held provide lesson materials required
  • required, not held provide teacher support required
  • required, not held support the positiveness of youths required
  • optional, not held teach primary education class content optional
  • optional, not held advise on lesson plans optional
  • optional, not held consult students on learning content optional
  • optional, not held liaise with educational support staff optional
  • optional, not held prepare lesson content optional
02 assisting and caring 3 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held assist students with equipment required
  • required, not held attend to children's basic physical needs required
  • required, not held guarantee students' safety required
  • optional, not held escort students on a field trip optional
03 management skills 2 required, 5 supplementary
  • required, not held encourage students to acknowledge their achievements required
  • required, not held maintain students' discipline required
  • optional, not held assess the development of youth optional
  • optional, not held facilitate teamwork between students optional
  • optional, not held assess students optional
  • optional, not held organise creative performance optional
  • optional, not held perform classroom management optional
04 education 3 supplementary
  • optional, not held instructional strategies optional
  • optional, not held curriculum objectives optional
  • optional, not held learning difficulties optional
05 health and welfare 3 supplementary
  • optional, not held social development optional
  • optional, not held common children's diseases optional
  • optional, not held disability types optional
06 services 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held workplace sanitation optional

1 further area in the appendix

Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a primary school teaching assistant role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.

Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.

Appendix

Appendix · The rest of the record

All 11 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held assist children in developing personal skills skill
  • already held handle children's problems skill
  • already held implement care programmes for children skill
  • already held perform playground surveillance skill
  • already held primary school procedures knowledge
  • already held support children's wellbeing skill
  • already held first aid knowledge
  • already held maintain relations with children's parents skill
  • already held promote the safeguarding of young people skill
  • already held provide after school care skill
  • already held teamwork principles knowledge
The 1 learning area not shown above
Skill to acquire Tier
07 working with computers 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held work with virtual learning environments optional
19 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held assess the development of youth optional
  • optional, not held facilitate teamwork between students optional
  • optional, not held instructional strategies optional
  • optional, not held social development optional
  • optional, not held teach primary education class content optional
  • optional, not held advise on lesson plans optional
  • optional, not held assess students optional
  • optional, not held common children's diseases optional
  • optional, not held consult students on learning content optional
  • optional, not held curriculum objectives optional
  • optional, not held disability types optional
  • optional, not held escort students on a field trip optional
  • optional, not held learning difficulties optional
  • optional, not held liaise with educational support staff optional
  • optional, not held organise creative performance optional
  • optional, not held perform classroom management optional
  • optional, not held prepare lesson content optional
  • optional, not held work with virtual learning environments optional
  • optional, not held workplace sanitation optional
22 held skills the primary school teaching assistant role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role animate in the outdoors skill
  • not needed by the target role apply organisational techniques skill
  • not needed by the target role apply person-centred care skill
  • not needed by the target role assist in the organisation of school events skill
  • not needed by the target role child protection knowledge
  • not needed by the target role contribute to the safeguarding of children skill
  • not needed by the target role coordinate educational programmes skill
  • not needed by the target role coordinate events skill
  • not needed by the target role counselling methods knowledge
  • not needed by the target role determine child welfare skill
  • not needed by the target role entertain people skill
  • not needed by the target role instruct in outdoor activities skill
  • not needed by the target role kindergarten school procedures knowledge
  • not needed by the target role monitor children's physical development skill
  • not needed by the target role monitor event activities skill
  • not needed by the target role outdoor activities knowledge
  • not needed by the target role play with children skill
  • not needed by the target role promote health and safety skill
  • not needed by the target role promote inclusion skill
  • not needed by the target role recreation activities knowledge
  • not needed by the target role sporting events knowledge
  • not needed by the target role supervise children skill
7 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice

Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.

Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held instructional strategies optional
  • optional, not held social development optional
  • optional, not held common children's diseases optional
  • optional, not held curriculum objectives optional
  • optional, not held disability types optional
  • optional, not held learning difficulties optional
  • optional, not held workplace sanitation optional
Index

Other moves recorded from child care coordinator

Full index of moves from child care coordinator

Note

How this record was compiled

Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.