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

maternity support workertomidwife

A maternity support worker already meets 47% of what the midwife role asks for. The move turns on 37 required skills not yet in the profile.

From maternity support worker
47%
Overlap1
To midwife
38 Skills carried over
37 Required, not held
70.4 Difficulty2
Career overlap Partial match

47%

Learning distance Substantial retraining

70.4/ 100

1 Share of the midwife 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 midwife role treats 36 of its required skills as things a maternity support worker already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • advise on family planning
  • advise on pregnancies at risk
  • advise on pregnancy
  • anaesthetics
  • analgesics
  • apply context specific clinical competences

What stands in the way is 37 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 38 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A midwife 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 analgesics health and welfare
  • already held assess the course of breast-feeding period communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held assist on pregnancy abnormality assisting and caring
  • already held care for the new-born infant assisting and caring
  • already held empathise with the woman's family during and after pregnancy assisting and caring
  • already held examine the new-born infant information skills

All 38 carried skills, including the 36 the midwife role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 50 missing skills fall into 13 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 9 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held carry out treatment prescribed by doctors required
  • required, not held conduct spontaneous child deliveries required
  • required, not held provide care for the mother during labour required
  • required, not held provide information on the effects of childbirth on sexuality required
  • required, not held provide pregnancy termination care required
  • required, not held take emergency measures in pregnancy required
  • required, not held prescribe medication required
  • required, not held adhere to organisational guidelines required
  • required, not held promote inclusion required
  • optional, not held apply acupuncture optional
02 health and welfare 8 required, 3 supplementary
  • required, not held lactation required
  • required, not held dietetics required
  • required, not held obstetric ultrasonography required
  • required, not held radiological procedures required
  • required, not held epidemiology required
  • required, not held female reproductive system pathology required
  • required, not held pathology required
  • required, not held resuscitation required
  • optional, not held phytotherapy optional
  • optional, not held surgery optional
  • optional, not held homeopathy optional
03 communication, collaboration and creativity 8 required, 2 supplementary
  • required, not held support informed consent required
  • required, not held accept own accountability required
  • required, not held advise on childbirth required
  • required, not held provide education on family life required
  • required, not held address problems critically 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 use foreign languages for health-related research optional
  • optional, not held use foreign languages in patient care optional
04 management skills 3 required
  • required, not held provide treatment strategies for challenges to human health required
  • required, not held apply organisational techniques required
  • required, not held respond to changing situations in health care required
05 business, administration and law 2 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held postpartum legal protection required
  • required, not held health care legislation required
  • optional, not held company policies optional
06 information skills 1 required, 3 supplementary
  • required, not held manage healthcare users' data required
  • optional, not held conduct research on reproductive medicine optional
  • optional, not held perform antepartum fetal monitoring optional
  • optional, not held address side effects of menopause optional

7 further areas in the appendix

Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a midwife 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 38 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held advise on family planning skill
  • already held advise on pregnancies at risk skill
  • already held advise on pregnancy skill
  • already held anaesthetics knowledge
  • already held analgesics knowledge
  • already held apply context specific clinical competences skill
  • already held assess the course of breast-feeding period skill
  • already held assist on pregnancy abnormality skill
  • already held care for the new-born infant skill
  • already held childbirth knowledge
  • 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 embryology knowledge
  • already held empathise with the woman's family during and after pregnancy skill
  • already held ensure safety of healthcare users skill
  • already held examine the new-born infant skill
  • already held follow clinical guidelines skill
  • already held health education knowledge
  • already held human anatomy knowledge
  • already held hygiene in a health care setting knowledge
  • already held listen actively skill
  • already held microbiology-bacteriology knowledge
  • already held monitor pregnancy skill
  • already held neonatology knowledge
  • already held postpartum period knowledge
  • already held pregnancy knowledge
  • already held preparation for child delivery knowledge
  • already held preparation for parenthood knowledge
  • already held provide health education skill
  • already held provide postnatal care skill
  • already held provide pre-natal care skill
  • already held sex education knowledge
  • already held work in a multicultural environment in health care skill
  • already held work in multidisciplinary health teams skill
  • already held use different communication channels skill
  • already held use obstetric sonography skill
The 7 learning areas not shown above
Skill to acquire Tier
07 services 1 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held relaxation techniques required
  • optional, not held yoga optional
08 social sciences, journalism and information 1 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held psychology required
  • optional, not held sociology optional
09 arts and humanities 1 required
  • required, not held health care occupation-specific ethics required
10 handling and moving 1 required
  • required, not held collect biological samples from patients required
11 natural sciences, mathematics and statistics 1 required
  • required, not held pharmacology required
12 working with computers 1 required
  • required, not held use e-health and mobile health technologies required
13 education 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held pedagogy optional
13 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held conduct research on reproductive medicine optional
  • optional, not held perform antepartum fetal monitoring optional
  • optional, not held yoga optional
  • optional, not held address side effects of menopause optional
  • optional, not held apply acupuncture optional
  • optional, not held company policies optional
  • optional, not held phytotherapy optional
  • optional, not held surgery optional
  • optional, not held homeopathy optional
  • optional, not held pedagogy optional
  • optional, not held sociology optional
  • optional, not held use foreign languages for health-related research optional
  • optional, not held use foreign languages in patient care optional
12 held skills the midwife role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role communicate with nursing staff skill
  • not needed by the target role distribute meals to patients skill
  • not needed by the target role empathise with the healthcare user skill
  • not needed by the target role have computer literacy skill
  • not needed by the target role identify abnormalities skill
  • not needed by the target role interact with healthcare users skill
  • not needed by the target role monitor basic patients signs skill
  • not needed by the target role promote health and safety skill
  • not needed by the target role provide basic support to patients skill
  • not needed by the target role support nurses skill
  • not needed by the target role work under supervision in care skill
  • not needed by the target role work with nursing staff skill
21 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 lactation required
  • required, not held postpartum legal protection required
  • required, not held dietetics required
  • required, not held obstetric ultrasonography required
  • required, not held radiological procedures required
  • required, not held epidemiology required
  • required, not held female reproductive system pathology required
  • required, not held health care legislation required
  • required, not held health care occupation-specific ethics required
  • required, not held pathology required
  • required, not held pharmacology required
  • required, not held psychology required
  • required, not held relaxation techniques required
  • required, not held resuscitation required
  • optional, not held yoga optional
  • optional, not held company policies optional
  • optional, not held phytotherapy optional
  • optional, not held surgery optional
  • optional, not held homeopathy optional
  • optional, not held pedagogy optional
  • optional, not held sociology 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.