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

occupational therapy assistanttoosteopath

A occupational therapy assistant already meets 36% of what the osteopath role asks for. The move turns on 16 required skills not yet in the profile.

From occupational therapy assistant
36%
Overlap1
To osteopath
16 Skills carried over
16 Required, not held
71.3 Difficulty2
Career overlap Distant match

36%

Learning distance Substantial retraining

71.3/ 100

1 Share of the osteopath role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the occupational therapy assistant 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 osteopath role treats 10 of its required skills as things a occupational therapy assistant already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • develop therapeutic relationships
  • empathise with the healthcare user
  • ensure safety of healthcare users
  • health care legislation
  • health care occupation-specific ethics
  • listen actively

What stands in the way is 16 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 16 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A osteopath role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a occupational therapy assistant background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held monitor patients' progress related to treatment information skills
  • already held orthopaedics health and welfare
  • already held develop therapeutic relationships communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held neurology health and welfare
  • already held record healthcare users' progress related to treatment information skills
  • already held health care occupation-specific ethics arts and humanities

All 16 carried skills, including the 10 the osteopath role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 32 missing skills fall into 9 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 6 required, 2 supplementary
  • required, not held develop osteopathic treatment plans required
  • required, not held apply person-centred care required
  • required, not held prescribe treatment for musculoskeletal injuries required
  • required, not held apply deep tissue massage required
  • required, not held comply with legislation related to health care required
  • required, not held contribute to the rehabilitation process required
  • optional, not held manage trauma through surgical means optional
  • optional, not held refer healthcare users optional
02 information skills 5 required, 3 supplementary
  • required, not held conduct gross examination of tissues required
  • required, not held provide osteopathic diagnosis required
  • required, not held diagnose musculoskeletal conditions required
  • required, not held maintain treatment records required
  • required, not held undertake healthcare examination required
  • optional, not held collect healthcare user's general data optional
  • optional, not held conduct physical examinations optional
  • optional, not held obtain healthcare user's medical status information optional
03 health and welfare 3 required, 4 supplementary
  • required, not held osteopathy required
  • required, not held musculoskeletal anatomy required
  • required, not held therapeutic massage required
  • optional, not held dietetics optional
  • optional, not held endocrinology optional
  • optional, not held human anatomy optional
  • optional, not held kinetics optional
04 communication, collaboration and creativity 1 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held follow-up on healthcare users' treatment required
  • optional, not held advise on healthy lifestyles optional
05 education 1 required
  • required, not held scientific research methodology required
06 management skills 2 supplementary
  • optional, not held create a diet plan optional
  • optional, not held promote exercise programmes optional

3 further areas in the appendix

Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a osteopath 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 16 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held develop therapeutic relationships skill
  • already held empathise with the healthcare user skill
  • already held ensure safety of healthcare users skill
  • already held health care legislation knowledge
  • already held health care occupation-specific ethics knowledge
  • already held listen actively skill
  • already held monitor patients' progress related to treatment skill
  • already held provide health education skill
  • already held record healthcare users' progress related to treatment skill
  • already held work in multidisciplinary health teams skill
  • already held first aid knowledge
  • already held general medicine knowledge
  • already held human physiology knowledge
  • already held interact with healthcare users skill
  • already held neurology knowledge
  • already held orthopaedics knowledge
The 3 learning areas not shown above
Skill to acquire Tier
07 natural sciences, mathematics and statistics 2 supplementary
  • optional, not held biomechanics optional
  • optional, not held pharmacology optional
08 engineering, manufacturing and construction 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held food science optional
09 working with machinery and specialised equipment 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held take and analyse blood pressure optional
16 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held take and analyse blood pressure optional
  • optional, not held collect healthcare user's general data optional
  • optional, not held conduct physical examinations optional
  • optional, not held create a diet plan optional
  • optional, not held dietetics optional
  • optional, not held endocrinology optional
  • optional, not held food science optional
  • optional, not held manage trauma through surgical means optional
  • optional, not held obtain healthcare user's medical status information optional
  • optional, not held promote exercise programmes optional
  • optional, not held refer healthcare users optional
  • optional, not held advise on healthy lifestyles optional
  • optional, not held biomechanics optional
  • optional, not held human anatomy optional
  • optional, not held kinetics optional
  • optional, not held pharmacology optional
30 held skills the osteopath role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role advise healthcare users on occupational health skill
  • not needed by the target role apply techniques of occupational therapy skill
  • not needed by the target role assist healthcare users achieve autonomy skill
  • not needed by the target role assist in performing physical exercises skill
  • not needed by the target role communicate in healthcare skill
  • not needed by the target role community-based rehabilitation knowledge
  • not needed by the target role create individual treatment programmes skill
  • not needed by the target role deal with emergency care situations skill
  • not needed by the target role develop a rehabilitation programme skill
  • not needed by the target role ergonomics knowledge
  • not needed by the target role exercise patience skill
  • not needed by the target role follow clinical guidelines skill
  • not needed by the target role geriatrics knowledge
  • not needed by the target role hygiene in a health care setting knowledge
  • not needed by the target role instruct on the use of special equipment for daily activities skill
  • not needed by the target role kinesiology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role mechanotherapy knowledge
  • not needed by the target role movement techniques knowledge
  • not needed by the target role occupational health knowledge
  • not needed by the target role occupational physiology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role occupational science knowledge
  • not needed by the target role occupational therapy theories knowledge
  • not needed by the target role perform occupation analyses skill
  • not needed by the target role perform patient activity analyses skill
  • not needed by the target role physical medicine knowledge
  • not needed by the target role provide stroke rehabilitation services skill
  • not needed by the target role rehabilitation knowledge
  • not needed by the target role remediate healthcare user's occupational performance skill
  • not needed by the target role supervision of persons knowledge
  • not needed by the target role vocational rehabilitation knowledge
11 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 osteopathy required
  • required, not held musculoskeletal anatomy required
  • required, not held scientific research methodology required
  • required, not held therapeutic massage required
  • optional, not held dietetics optional
  • optional, not held endocrinology optional
  • optional, not held food science optional
  • optional, not held biomechanics optional
  • optional, not held human anatomy optional
  • optional, not held kinetics optional
  • optional, not held pharmacology optional
Index

Other moves recorded from occupational therapy assistant

Full index of moves from occupational therapy assistant

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.