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

midwifetodental technician

A midwife already meets 50% of what the dental technician role asks for. The move turns on 11 required skills not yet in the profile.

From midwife
50%
Overlap1
To dental technician
13 Skills carried over
11 Required, not held
56.2 Difficulty2
Career overlap Partial match

50%

Learning distance Substantial retraining

56.2/ 100

1 Share of the dental technician 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 dental technician role treats 12 of its required skills as things a midwife already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • accept own accountability
  • apply organisational techniques
  • comply with legislation related to health care
  • contribute to continuity of health care
  • ensure safety of healthcare users
  • follow clinical guidelines

What stands in the way is 11 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 13 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A dental technician 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 inform policy makers on health-related challenges communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held use e-health and mobile health technologies working with computers
  • already held respond to changing situations in health care management skills
  • already held contribute to continuity of health care assisting and caring
  • already held follow clinical guidelines assisting and caring
  • already held ensure safety of healthcare users assisting and caring

All 13 carried skills, including the 12 the dental technician role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 15 missing skills fall into 6 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 handling and moving 5 required
  • required, not held manufacture dental prostheses required
  • required, not held polish dental prostheses required
  • required, not held repair denture prostheses required
  • required, not held select materials for orthodontic appliances required
  • required, not held manipulate dental material required
02 communication, collaboration and creativity 2 required, 2 supplementary
  • required, not held follow dentists' instructions required
  • required, not held communicate in healthcare required
  • optional, not held train dental technician staff optional
  • optional, not held communicate in foreign languages with health service providers optional
03 information skills 2 required
  • required, not held examine dental models and impressions required
  • required, not held test dental appliances for compliance required
04 assisting and caring 1 required
  • required, not held manage infection control in the facility required
05 working with machinery and specialised equipment 1 required
  • required, not held maintain laboratory dental tools required
06 management skills 2 supplementary
  • optional, not held supervise dental technician staff optional
  • optional, not held handle payments in dentistry optional
Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a dental technician 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 13 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held accept own accountability skill
  • already held apply organisational techniques skill
  • already held comply with legislation related to health care skill
  • already held contribute to continuity of health care skill
  • already held ensure safety of healthcare users skill
  • already held follow clinical guidelines skill
  • already held listen actively skill
  • already held promote inclusion skill
  • already held respond to changing situations in health care skill
  • 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 inform policy makers on health-related challenges skill
4 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held supervise dental technician staff optional
  • optional, not held train dental technician staff optional
  • optional, not held handle payments in dentistry optional
  • optional, not held communicate in foreign languages with health service providers optional
75 held skills the dental technician 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 adhere to organisational guidelines 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 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 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 comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice skill
  • 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 deal with emergency care situations skill
  • not needed by the target role develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship skill
  • not needed by the target role dietetics knowledge
  • not needed by the target role educate on the prevention of illness skill
  • 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 legislation 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 manage healthcare users' data skill
  • not needed by the target role microbiology-bacteriology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role monitor pregnancy skill

35 further entries not listed here

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.