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

midwifetoart therapist

A midwife already meets 44% of what the art therapist role asks for. The move turns on 27 required skills not yet in the profile.

From midwife
44%
Overlap1
To art therapist
27 Skills carried over
27 Required, not held
70.7 Difficulty2
Career overlap Partial match

44%

Learning distance Substantial retraining

70.7/ 100

1 Share of the art therapist role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the midwife 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 art therapist role treats 23 of its required skills as things a midwife already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • accept own accountability
  • adhere to organisational guidelines
  • apply context specific clinical competences
  • apply organisational techniques
  • comply with legislation related to health care
  • comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice

What stands in the way is 27 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 27 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A art therapist role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a midwife background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held relaxation techniques services
  • already held sociology social sciences, journalism and information
  • already held educate on the prevention of illness communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held use foreign languages for health-related research communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held inform policy makers on health-related challenges communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held health care legislation business, administration and law

All 27 carried skills, including the 23 the art therapist role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 39 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 assisting and caring 9 required, 3 supplementary
  • required, not held challenge patient behaviour by means of art required
  • required, not held apply art therapy interventions required
  • required, not held formulate a case conceptualisation model for therapy required
  • required, not held maintain healthcare user data confidentiality required
  • required, not held organise relapse prevention required
  • required, not held prepare treatment plan for art therapy required
  • required, not held refer healthcare users required
  • required, not held use art in a therapeutic setting required
  • required, not held take referred patients required
  • optional, not held apply psychoanalysis optional
  • optional, not held handle patient trauma optional
  • optional, not held practice gestalt therapy optional
02 communication, collaboration and creativity 6 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held develop educational materials on art therapy required
  • required, not held enable patients to explore artworks required
  • required, not held advise on healthcare users' informed consent required
  • required, not held encourage healthcare user's self-monitoring required
  • required, not held communicate in healthcare required
  • required, not held interact with healthcare users required
  • optional, not held define creative components optional
03 social sciences, journalism and information 4 required, 5 supplementary
  • required, not held behavioural therapy required
  • required, not held human psychological development required
  • required, not held cognitive psychology required
  • required, not held psychological theories required
  • optional, not held cognitive behavioural therapy optional
  • optional, not held psychoanalysis optional
  • optional, not held psychosociology optional
  • optional, not held sexology optional
  • optional, not held victimology optional
04 health and welfare 3 required, 2 supplementary
  • required, not held techniques of practice in art therapy required
  • required, not held psychopathology required
  • required, not held theory of art therapy required
  • optional, not held applied music therapy optional
  • optional, not held neurophysiology optional
05 information skills 2 required
  • required, not held assess art therapy sessions required
  • required, not held assess the patient's therapeutic needs required
06 management skills 2 required
  • required, not held schedule artistic activities required
  • required, not held use techniques to increase patients' motivation required

1 further area in the appendix

Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a art therapist 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 27 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held accept own accountability skill
  • already held adhere to organisational guidelines skill
  • already held apply context specific clinical competences skill
  • already held apply organisational techniques 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 develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship skill
  • already held educate on the prevention of illness skill
  • already held ensure safety of healthcare users skill
  • already held follow clinical guidelines skill
  • already held health care legislation knowledge
  • already held inform policy makers on health-related challenges skill
  • already held listen actively skill
  • already held manage healthcare users' data skill
  • already held promote inclusion skill
  • already held provide health education skill
  • already held respond to changing situations in health care skill
  • already held sociology knowledge
  • already held use e-health and mobile health technologies skill
  • already held work in a multicultural environment in health care skill
  • already held work in multidisciplinary health teams skill
  • already held pedagogy knowledge
  • already held relaxation techniques knowledge
  • already held use foreign languages for health-related research skill
  • already held use foreign languages in patient care skill
The 1 learning area not shown above
Skill to acquire Tier
07 arts and humanities 1 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held fine arts required
  • optional, not held philosophy optional
12 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held applied music therapy optional
  • optional, not held apply psychoanalysis optional
  • optional, not held cognitive behavioural therapy optional
  • optional, not held define creative components optional
  • optional, not held handle patient trauma optional
  • optional, not held practice gestalt therapy optional
  • optional, not held psychoanalysis optional
  • optional, not held psychosociology optional
  • optional, not held neurophysiology optional
  • optional, not held philosophy optional
  • optional, not held sexology optional
  • optional, not held victimology optional
61 held skills the art therapist role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role address problems critically skill
  • not needed by the target role address side effects of menopause skill
  • not needed by the target role advise on childbirth skill
  • 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 acupuncture 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 carry out treatment prescribed by doctors skill
  • not needed by the target role childbirth knowledge
  • not needed by the target role collect biological samples from patients skill
  • not needed by the target role company policies knowledge
  • not needed by the target role conduct research on reproductive medicine skill
  • not needed by the target role conduct spontaneous child deliveries skill
  • not needed by the target role dietetics 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 epidemiology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role examine the new-born infant skill
  • not needed by the target role female reproductive system pathology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role health care occupation-specific ethics knowledge
  • not needed by the target role health education knowledge
  • not needed by the target role homeopathy 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 lactation 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 obstetric ultrasonography knowledge
  • not needed by the target role pathology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role perform antepartum fetal monitoring skill
  • not needed by the target role pharmacology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role phytotherapy knowledge
  • not needed by the target role postpartum legal protection knowledge
  • not needed by the target role postpartum period knowledge

21 further entries not listed here

16 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 techniques of practice in art therapy required
  • required, not held behavioural therapy required
  • required, not held human psychological development required
  • required, not held psychopathology required
  • required, not held theory of art therapy required
  • required, not held cognitive psychology required
  • required, not held fine arts required
  • required, not held psychological theories required
  • optional, not held applied music therapy optional
  • optional, not held cognitive behavioural therapy optional
  • optional, not held psychoanalysis optional
  • optional, not held psychosociology optional
  • optional, not held neurophysiology optional
  • optional, not held philosophy optional
  • optional, not held sexology optional
  • optional, not held victimology optional
Index

Other moves recorded from midwife

Full index of moves from midwife

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.