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

maternity support workertohealthcare assistant

A maternity support worker already meets 55% of what the healthcare assistant role asks for. The move turns on 12 required skills not yet in the profile.

From maternity support worker
55%
Overlap1
To healthcare assistant
21 Skills carried over
12 Required, not held
54.1 Difficulty2
Career overlap Partial match

55%

Learning distance Real move, short list to learn

54.1/ 100

1 Share of the healthcare assistant role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the maternity support worker 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 assistant role treats 20 of its required skills as things a maternity support worker already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • communicate with nursing staff
  • comply with legislation related to health care
  • comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
  • contribute to continuity of health care
  • deal with emergency care situations
  • empathise with the healthcare user

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 21 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A healthcare assistant role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a maternity support worker background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held work under supervision in care communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held identify abnormalities information skills
  • already held communicate with nursing staff communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held provide basic support to patients assisting and caring
  • already held work with nursing staff communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held support nurses communication, collaboration and creativity

All 21 carried skills, including the 20 the healthcare assistant role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 25 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 communication, collaboration and creativity 6 required, 3 supplementary
  • required, not held convey medical routine information required
  • required, not held accept own accountability required
  • required, not held advise on healthcare users' informed consent required
  • required, not held develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship required
  • required, not held educate on the prevention of illness required
  • required, not held inform policy makers on health-related challenges required
  • optional, not held communicate in foreign languages with health service providers optional
  • optional, not held use foreign languages for health-related research optional
  • optional, not held use foreign languages in patient care optional
02 assisting and caring 2 required, 2 supplementary
  • required, not held adhere to organisational guidelines required
  • required, not held promote inclusion required
  • optional, not held assist in the administration of medication to elderly optional
  • optional, not held support individuals to adjust to physical disability optional
03 management skills 2 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held apply organisational techniques required
  • required, not held respond to changing situations in health care required
  • optional, not held evaluate older adults' ability to take care of themselves optional
04 information skills 1 required
  • required, not held manage healthcare users' data required
05 working with computers 1 required
  • required, not held use e-health and mobile health technologies required
06 health and welfare 5 supplementary
  • optional, not held disability care optional
  • optional, not held disability types optional
  • optional, not held geriatrics optional
  • optional, not held older adults' needs optional
  • optional, not held sterilization techniques optional

2 further areas in the appendix

Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a healthcare 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 21 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held communicate with nursing staff skill
  • already held comply with legislation related to health care skill
  • already held comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice skill
  • already held contribute to continuity of health care skill
  • already held deal with emergency care situations skill
  • already held empathise with the healthcare user skill
  • already held ensure safety of healthcare users skill
  • already held follow clinical guidelines skill
  • already held have computer literacy skill
  • already held identify abnormalities skill
  • already held interact with healthcare users skill
  • already held listen actively skill
  • already held monitor basic patients signs skill
  • already held provide basic support to patients skill
  • already held provide health education skill
  • already held support nurses skill
  • already held work in a multicultural environment in health care skill
  • already held work in multidisciplinary health teams skill
  • already held work under supervision in care skill
  • already held work with nursing staff skill
  • already held distribute meals to patients skill
The 2 learning areas not shown above
Skill to acquire Tier
07 handling and moving 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held perform cleaning duties optional
08 working with machinery and specialised equipment 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held use technical equipment for sterilisation optional
13 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held assist in the administration of medication to elderly optional
  • optional, not held disability care optional
  • optional, not held support individuals to adjust to physical disability optional
  • optional, not held communicate in foreign languages with health service providers optional
  • optional, not held disability types optional
  • optional, not held evaluate older adults' ability to take care of themselves optional
  • optional, not held geriatrics optional
  • optional, not held older adults' needs optional
  • optional, not held perform cleaning duties optional
  • optional, not held sterilization techniques optional
  • optional, not held use foreign languages for health-related research optional
  • optional, not held use foreign languages in patient care optional
  • optional, not held use technical equipment for sterilisation optional
29 held skills the healthcare assistant role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role advise on family planning skill
  • not needed by the target role advise on pregnancies at risk skill
  • not needed by the target role advise on pregnancy skill
  • not needed by the target role anaesthetics knowledge
  • not needed by the target role analgesics knowledge
  • not needed by the target role apply context specific clinical competences skill
  • not needed by the target role assess the course of breast-feeding period skill
  • not needed by the target role assist on pregnancy abnormality skill
  • not needed by the target role care for the new-born infant skill
  • not needed by the target role childbirth knowledge
  • not needed by the target role embryology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role empathise with the woman's family during and after pregnancy skill
  • not needed by the target role examine the new-born infant skill
  • not needed by the target role health education knowledge
  • not needed by the target role human anatomy knowledge
  • not needed by the target role hygiene in a health care setting knowledge
  • not needed by the target role microbiology-bacteriology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role monitor pregnancy skill
  • not needed by the target role neonatology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role postpartum period knowledge
  • not needed by the target role pregnancy knowledge
  • not needed by the target role preparation for child delivery knowledge
  • not needed by the target role preparation for parenthood knowledge
  • not needed by the target role promote health and safety skill
  • not needed by the target role provide postnatal care skill
  • not needed by the target role provide pre-natal care skill
  • not needed by the target role sex education knowledge
  • not needed by the target role use different communication channels skill
  • not needed by the target role use obstetric sonography skill
5 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 disability care optional
  • optional, not held disability types optional
  • optional, not held geriatrics optional
  • optional, not held older adults' needs optional
  • optional, not held sterilization techniques optional
Index

Other moves recorded from maternity support worker

Full index of moves from maternity support worker

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.