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

health and safety officertohealthcare inspector

A health and safety officer already meets 34% of what the healthcare inspector role asks for. The move turns on 9 required skills not yet in the profile.

From health and safety officer
34%
Overlap1
To healthcare inspector
10 Skills carried over
9 Required, not held
66 Difficulty2
Career overlap Distant match

34%

Learning distance Substantial retraining

66/ 100

1 Share of the healthcare inspector role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the health and safety officer 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 healthcare inspector role treats 5 of its required skills as things a health and safety officer already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • advise on risk management
  • communicate health and safety measures
  • conduct workplace audits
  • educate employees on occupational hazards
  • health, safety and hygiene legislation

What stands in the way is 9 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 10 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A healthcare inspector role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a health and safety officer background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held draw up risk assessment information skills
  • already held educate employees on occupational hazards communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held communicate health and safety measures communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held identify policy breach management skills
  • already held conduct workplace audits information skills
  • already held provide improvement strategies management skills

All 10 carried skills, including the 5 the healthcare inspector role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 21 missing skills fall into 8 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 assisting and caring 3 required, 3 supplementary
  • required, not held ensure compliance with healthcare regulations required
  • required, not held examine healthcare facility required
  • required, not held ensure safety of healthcare users required
  • optional, not held ensure safety regulations in dealing with infectious diseases optional
  • optional, not held provide guidance on infectious disease optional
  • optional, not held manage infection control in the facility optional
02 health and welfare 2 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held medical studies required
  • required, not held medical terminology required
  • optional, not held infection control optional
03 services 2 required
  • required, not held safe management of medicines required
  • required, not held health care system required
04 business, administration and law 1 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held health care legislation required
  • optional, not held healthcare administration optional
05 management skills 1 required
  • required, not held inspect staff required
06 communication, collaboration and creativity 4 supplementary
  • optional, not held conduct contact tracing interviews optional
  • optional, not held advise on medical records optional
  • optional, not held advise policy makers in healthcare optional
  • optional, not held implement policy in healthcare practices optional

2 further areas in the appendix

Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a healthcare inspector 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 10 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held advise on risk management skill
  • already held communicate health and safety measures skill
  • already held conduct workplace audits skill
  • already held educate employees on occupational hazards skill
  • already held health, safety and hygiene legislation knowledge
  • already held conduct research interview skill
  • already held draw up risk assessment skill
  • already held identify policy breach skill
  • already held present reports skill
  • already held provide improvement strategies skill
The 2 learning areas not shown above
Skill to acquire Tier
07 information skills 2 supplementary
  • optional, not held collect statistics on medical records optional
  • optional, not held identify hazards in the workplace optional
08 handling and moving 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held participate in medical inventory control optional
12 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held conduct contact tracing interviews optional
  • optional, not held ensure safety regulations in dealing with infectious diseases optional
  • optional, not held advise on medical records optional
  • optional, not held collect statistics on medical records optional
  • optional, not held healthcare administration optional
  • optional, not held provide guidance on infectious disease optional
  • optional, not held advise policy makers in healthcare optional
  • optional, not held identify hazards in the workplace optional
  • optional, not held implement policy in healthcare practices optional
  • optional, not held infection control optional
  • optional, not held manage infection control in the facility optional
  • optional, not held participate in medical inventory control optional
28 held skills the healthcare inspector role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role advise on conflict management skill
  • not needed by the target role advise on environmental risk management systems skill
  • not needed by the target role apply conflict management skill
  • not needed by the target role assessment of risks and threats knowledge
  • not needed by the target role audit techniques knowledge
  • not needed by the target role educate on emergency management skill
  • not needed by the target role employment law knowledge
  • not needed by the target role ensure compliance with environmental legislation skill
  • not needed by the target role environmental legislation knowledge
  • not needed by the target role follow standards for machinery safety skill
  • not needed by the target role implement strategic planning skill
  • not needed by the target role issue licences skill
  • not needed by the target role liaise with managers skill
  • not needed by the target role make health, safety and environment assessments skill
  • not needed by the target role monitor employee's health skill
  • not needed by the target role monitor legislation developments skill
  • not needed by the target role observe confidentiality skill
  • not needed by the target role occupational health knowledge
  • not needed by the target role perform health assessment autonomously skill
  • not needed by the target role perform project management skill
  • not needed by the target role perform risk analysis skill
  • not needed by the target role personal protective equipment knowledge
  • not needed by the target role pollution prevention knowledge
  • not needed by the target role project management knowledge
  • not needed by the target role quality standards knowledge
  • not needed by the target role technical drawings knowledge
  • not needed by the target role test safety strategies skill
  • not needed by the target role use different communication channels 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
  • required, not held safe management of medicines required
  • required, not held health care legislation required
  • required, not held health care system required
  • required, not held medical studies required
  • required, not held medical terminology required
  • optional, not held healthcare administration optional
  • optional, not held infection control optional
Index

Other moves recorded from health and safety officer

Full index of moves from health and safety officer

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.