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

pharmacisttodental technician

A pharmacist already meets 40% of what the dental technician role asks for. The move turns on 13 required skills not yet in the profile.

From pharmacist
40%
Overlap1
To dental technician
10 Skills carried over
13 Required, not held
63.6 Difficulty2
Career overlap Partial match

40%

Learning distance Substantial retraining

63.6/ 100

1 Share of the dental technician role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the pharmacist 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 10 of its required skills as things a pharmacist already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

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

What stands in the way is 13 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 10 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 pharmacist background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held use e-health and mobile health technologies working with computers
  • already held contribute to continuity of health care assisting and caring
  • already held follow clinical guidelines assisting and caring
  • already held communicate in healthcare communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held ensure safety of healthcare users assisting and caring
  • already held work in multidisciplinary health teams communication, collaboration and creativity

All 10 carried skills, including the 10 the dental technician role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 18 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, 3 supplementary
  • required, not held follow dentists' instructions required
  • required, not held work in a multicultural environment in health care required
  • optional, not held train dental technician staff optional
  • optional, not held communicate in foreign languages with health service providers optional
  • optional, not held inform policy makers on health-related challenges optional
03 assisting and caring 2 required
  • required, not held manage infection control in the facility required
  • required, not held promote inclusion required
04 information skills 2 required
  • required, not held examine dental models and impressions required
  • required, not held test dental appliances for compliance required
05 management skills 1 required, 2 supplementary
  • required, not held respond to changing situations in health care required
  • optional, not held supervise dental technician staff optional
  • optional, not held handle payments in dentistry optional
06 working with machinery and specialised equipment 1 required
  • required, not held maintain laboratory dental tools required
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 10 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held accept own accountability skill
  • already held apply organisational techniques skill
  • already held communicate in healthcare 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 use e-health and mobile health technologies skill
  • already held work in multidisciplinary health teams skill
5 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
  • optional, not held inform policy makers on health-related challenges optional
76 held skills the dental technician role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role accounting techniques knowledge
  • not needed by the target role advise on healthcare users' informed consent skill
  • not needed by the target role advise on poisoning incidents skill
  • not needed by the target role analytical chemistry knowledge
  • not needed by the target role applied therapeutics related to medicines knowledge
  • not needed by the target role apply blended learning skill
  • not needed by the target role biological chemistry knowledge
  • not needed by the target role botany knowledge
  • not needed by the target role check information on prescriptions skill
  • not needed by the target role communicate with customers skill
  • not needed by the target role comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice skill
  • not needed by the target role conduct health related research skill
  • not needed by the target role contribute to public health campaigns skill
  • not needed by the target role counsel healthcare users on medicines skill
  • not needed by the target role deal with emergency care situations skill
  • not needed by the target role dispense medicines skill
  • not needed by the target role empathise with the healthcare user skill
  • not needed by the target role ensure client orientation skill
  • not needed by the target role ensure pharmacovigilance skill
  • not needed by the target role ensure the appropriate supply in pharmacy skill
  • not needed by the target role evaluate scientific data concerning medicines skill
  • not needed by the target role handle the logistics of medicinal products skill
  • 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 improve safety of medicines skill
  • not needed by the target role inorganic chemistry knowledge
  • not needed by the target role interact with healthcare users skill
  • not needed by the target role maintain adequate medication storage conditions skill
  • not needed by the target role maintain medical devices skill
  • not needed by the target role maintain pharmacy records skill
  • not needed by the target role manage adverse reactions to drugs skill
  • not needed by the target role manage healthcare users' data skill
  • not needed by the target role manage medical supply chains skill
  • not needed by the target role manage medication safety issues skill
  • not needed by the target role manage personal professional development skill
  • not needed by the target role manufacture medicines skill
  • not needed by the target role medical devices knowledge
  • not needed by the target role medical statistics knowledge
  • not needed by the target role medicines knowledge

36 further entries not listed here

Index

Other moves recorded from pharmacist

Full index of moves from pharmacist

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.