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

osteopathtooccupational therapy assistant

A osteopath already meets 32% of what the occupational therapy assistant role asks for. The move turns on 17 required skills not yet in the profile.

From osteopath
32%
Overlap1
To occupational therapy assistant
16 Skills carried over
17 Required, not held
72.1 Difficulty2
Career overlap Distant match

32%

Learning distance Substantial retraining

72.1/ 100

1 Share of the occupational therapy assistant role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the osteopath 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 occupational therapy assistant role treats 7 of its required skills as things a osteopath 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 occupation-specific ethics
  • interact with healthcare users
  • listen actively

What stands in the way is 17 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 occupational therapy assistant role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a osteopath 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 7 the occupational therapy assistant role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 30 missing skills fall into 8 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 health and welfare 4 required, 6 supplementary
  • required, not held community-based rehabilitation required
  • required, not held vocational rehabilitation required
  • required, not held movement techniques required
  • required, not held occupational physiology required
  • optional, not held kinesiology optional
  • optional, not held mechanotherapy optional
  • optional, not held physical medicine optional
  • optional, not held geriatrics optional
  • optional, not held occupational therapy theories optional
  • optional, not held rehabilitation optional
02 assisting and caring 4 required, 5 supplementary
  • required, not held apply techniques of occupational therapy required
  • required, not held assist healthcare users achieve autonomy required
  • required, not held remediate healthcare user's occupational performance required
  • required, not held follow clinical guidelines required
  • optional, not held assist in performing physical exercises optional
  • optional, not held create individual treatment programmes optional
  • optional, not held provide stroke rehabilitation services optional
  • optional, not held deal with emergency care situations optional
  • optional, not held develop a rehabilitation programme optional
03 communication, collaboration and creativity 3 required
  • required, not held advise healthcare users on occupational health required
  • required, not held communicate in healthcare required
  • required, not held instruct on the use of special equipment for daily activities required
04 services 3 required
  • required, not held occupational health required
  • required, not held ergonomics required
  • required, not held hygiene in a health care setting required
05 management skills 1 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held exercise patience required
  • optional, not held perform occupation analyses optional
06 business, administration and law 1 required
  • required, not held supervision of persons required

2 further areas in the appendix

Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a occupational therapy assistant 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 occupation-specific ethics knowledge
  • already held interact with healthcare users skill
  • already held listen actively skill
  • already held monitor patients' progress related to treatment skill
  • already held first aid knowledge
  • already held general medicine knowledge
  • already held health care legislation knowledge
  • already held human physiology knowledge
  • already held neurology knowledge
  • already held orthopaedics knowledge
  • already held provide health education skill
  • already held record healthcare users' progress related to treatment skill
  • already held work in multidisciplinary health teams skill
The 2 learning areas not shown above
Skill to acquire Tier
07 social sciences, journalism and information 1 required
  • required, not held occupational science required
08 information skills 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held perform patient activity analyses optional
13 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held assist in performing physical exercises optional
  • optional, not held create individual treatment programmes optional
  • optional, not held kinesiology optional
  • optional, not held mechanotherapy optional
  • optional, not held perform occupation analyses optional
  • optional, not held perform patient activity analyses optional
  • optional, not held physical medicine optional
  • optional, not held provide stroke rehabilitation services optional
  • optional, not held deal with emergency care situations optional
  • optional, not held develop a rehabilitation programme optional
  • optional, not held geriatrics optional
  • optional, not held occupational therapy theories optional
  • optional, not held rehabilitation optional
32 held skills the occupational therapy assistant role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role advise on healthy lifestyles skill
  • not needed by the target role apply deep tissue massage skill
  • not needed by the target role apply person-centred care skill
  • not needed by the target role biomechanics knowledge
  • not needed by the target role collect healthcare user's general data skill
  • not needed by the target role comply with legislation related to health care skill
  • not needed by the target role conduct gross examination of tissues skill
  • not needed by the target role conduct physical examinations skill
  • not needed by the target role contribute to the rehabilitation process skill
  • not needed by the target role create a diet plan skill
  • not needed by the target role develop osteopathic treatment plans skill
  • not needed by the target role diagnose musculoskeletal conditions skill
  • not needed by the target role dietetics knowledge
  • not needed by the target role endocrinology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role follow-up on healthcare users' treatment skill
  • not needed by the target role food science knowledge
  • not needed by the target role human anatomy knowledge
  • not needed by the target role kinetics knowledge
  • not needed by the target role maintain treatment records skill
  • not needed by the target role manage trauma through surgical means skill
  • not needed by the target role musculoskeletal anatomy knowledge
  • not needed by the target role obtain healthcare user's medical status information skill
  • not needed by the target role osteopathy knowledge
  • not needed by the target role pharmacology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role prescribe treatment for musculoskeletal injuries skill
  • not needed by the target role promote exercise programmes skill
  • not needed by the target role provide osteopathic diagnosis skill
  • not needed by the target role refer healthcare users skill
  • not needed by the target role scientific research methodology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role take and analyse blood pressure skill
  • not needed by the target role therapeutic massage knowledge
  • not needed by the target role undertake healthcare examination skill
15 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 community-based rehabilitation required
  • required, not held occupational health required
  • required, not held occupational science required
  • required, not held vocational rehabilitation required
  • required, not held ergonomics required
  • required, not held hygiene in a health care setting required
  • required, not held movement techniques required
  • required, not held occupational physiology required
  • required, not held supervision of persons required
  • optional, not held kinesiology optional
  • optional, not held mechanotherapy optional
  • optional, not held physical medicine optional
  • optional, not held geriatrics optional
  • optional, not held occupational therapy theories optional
  • optional, not held rehabilitation optional
Index

Other moves recorded from osteopath

Full index of moves from osteopath

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.