Midwife to physiotherapy assistant
A midwife already meets 51% of what the physiotherapy assistant role asks for. The move turns on 20 required skills not yet in the profile.
61.5/ 100
1 How much of what a physiotherapy assistant is expected to do is already part of a midwife’s work. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs, because moving into a speciality is not the same problem as moving out of one. 2 Every skill the physiotherapy assistant role is recorded as needing, required and optional together. What these numbers mean.
Why this move works
A physiotherapy assistant role treats 21 of its required skills as things a midwife already does. You would walk in with these on day one.
- accept own accountability
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- apply organisational techniques
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- contribute to continuity of health care
What stands in the way is 20 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.
Table 2 · What you already bring
Of the 21 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A physiotherapy assistant 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.
- already held educate on the prevention of illness communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held inform policy makers on health-related challenges communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held use e-health and mobile health technologies working with computers
- already held manage healthcare users' data information skills
- already held respond to changing situations in health care management skills
All 21 carried skills, including the 21 the physiotherapy assistant role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you may need to learn
The 20 missing skills fall into 5 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered in the order worth working in. Areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the optional ones. Nothing here is a verdict on you: it is a list of what this particular job asks for that your current one does not.
- still to learn assist physiotherapists required
- still to learn support discharge from physiotherapy required
- still to learn advise on healthcare users' informed consent required
- still to learn advocate health required
- still to learn develop therapeutic relationships required
- still to learn promote health and safety policies in health services required
- still to learn communicate in healthcare required
- still to learn interact with healthcare users required
- still to learn adhere to health well-being and safety required
- still to learn provide information on the effects of physiotherapy required
- still to learn provide stroke rehabilitation services required
- still to learn contribute to the rehabilitation process required
- still to learn empathise with the healthcare user required
- still to learn contribute to quality physiotherapy services required
- still to learn develop plans related to client discharge required
- still to learn develop plans related to the transfer of care required
- still to learn provide learning support in healthcare required
- still to learn collect healthcare user data under supervision required
- still to learn record healthcare users' progress related to treatment required
- still to learn maintain physiotherapy equipment required
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a physiotherapy assistant role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 assist physiotherapists practise this
- 02 support discharge from physiotherapy practise this
- 03 adhere to health well-being and safety practise this
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 21 skills that carry over
- already held accept own accountability skill
- already held adhere to organisational guidelines 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 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 use different communication channels 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
0 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
67 held skills the physiotherapy assistant role does not ask for
- 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 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 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 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 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 pedagogy knowledge
- not needed by the target role perform antepartum fetal monitoring skill
- not needed by the target role pharmacology knowledge
27 further entries not listed here
Other moves recorded from midwife
- maternity support worker 74% covered · moderate
- healthcare assistant 56% covered · moderate
- dental hygienist 50% covered · substantial
- dental technician 50% covered · substantial
- specialist pharmacist 49% covered · substantial
- respiratory therapy technician 49% covered · moderate
- orthoptist 47% covered · substantial
- pharmacy assistant 47% covered · substantial
Common questions about this move
Can a midwife become a physiotherapy assistant?
Yes, and it is a substantial move. A midwife already covers 51% of what a physiotherapy assistant is expected to do: 21 skills carry over, 21 of which the physiotherapy assistant role treats as required.
What skills does a midwife need to become a physiotherapy assistant?
20 required skills are missing, plus 0 optional ones. They fall into 5 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, led by communication, collaboration and creativity. The single most important is assist physiotherapists.
How hard is the move from midwife to physiotherapy assistant?
Its learning distance is 61.5 out of 100, which is the substantial band. That accounts for both how much is missing and how specialised those skills are.
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.