specialist pharmacisttophysiotherapy assistant
A specialist pharmacist already meets 59% of what the physiotherapy assistant role asks for. The move turns on 17 required skills not yet in the profile.
59%
55.3/ 100
1 Share of the physiotherapy assistant role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the specialist 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 this move works
A physiotherapy assistant role treats 24 of its required skills as things a specialist pharmacist already does. These are the ones it depends on most.
- accept own accountability
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- apply organisational techniques
- communicate in healthcare
- comply with legislation related to health care
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 · What you already bring
Of the 24 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 specialist pharmacist background worth leading with.
- already held educate on the prevention of illness communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held advise on healthcare users' informed consent 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
All 24 carried skills, including the 24 the physiotherapy assistant role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 17 missing skills fall into 5 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.
- required, not held assist physiotherapists required
- required, not held support discharge from physiotherapy required
- required, not held advocate health required
- required, not held develop therapeutic relationships required
- required, not held promote health and safety policies in health services required
- required, not held use different communication channels required
- required, not held adhere to health well-being and safety required
- required, not held provide information on the effects of physiotherapy required
- required, not held provide stroke rehabilitation services required
- required, not held contribute to the rehabilitation process required
- required, not held contribute to quality physiotherapy services required
- required, not held develop plans related to client discharge required
- required, not held develop plans related to the transfer of care required
- required, not held provide learning support in healthcare required
- required, not held collect healthcare user data under supervision required
- required, not held record healthcare users' progress related to treatment required
- required, not held 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 skill · occupation specific
- 02 support discharge from physiotherapy skill · occupation specific
- 03 adhere to health well-being and safety skill · sector specific
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 24 skills that carry over
- already held accept own accountability skill
- already held adhere to organisational guidelines skill
- already held advise on healthcare users' informed consent 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 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 empathise with the healthcare user 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 interact with healthcare users 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 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
36 held skills the physiotherapy assistant role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role advise on poisoning incidents skill
- not needed by the target role apply context specific clinical competences skill
- not needed by the target role apply person-centred care skill
- not needed by the target role botany knowledge
- not needed by the target role cancer risks knowledge
- not needed by the target role conduct health related research skill
- not needed by the target role homeopathy knowledge
- not needed by the target role human anatomy 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 maintain medical devices skill
- not needed by the target role manage adverse reactions to drugs skill
- not needed by the target role medical devices knowledge
- not needed by the target role microbiology-bacteriology knowledge
- not needed by the target role organic chemistry knowledge
- not needed by the target role perform diagnostic testing for allergies skill
- not needed by the target role pharmaceutical chemistry knowledge
- not needed by the target role pharmaceutical industry knowledge
- not needed by the target role pharmaceutical technology knowledge
- not needed by the target role pharmacognosy knowledge
- not needed by the target role pharmacokinetics knowledge
- not needed by the target role pharmacology knowledge
- not needed by the target role pharmacotherapy knowledge
- not needed by the target role pharmacy law knowledge
- not needed by the target role physics knowledge
- not needed by the target role prescribe medication skill
- not needed by the target role provide anti-cancer medical treatment skill
- not needed by the target role provide medication information skill
- not needed by the target role provide pharmaceutical advice skill
- not needed by the target role provide specialist pharmaceutical advice skill
- not needed by the target role provide specialist pharmaceutical care skill
- not needed by the target role provide treatment strategies for challenges to human health skill
- not needed by the target role review patient's medical data skill
- not needed by the target role toxicology knowledge
- not needed by the target role use foreign languages for health-related research skill
- not needed by the target role use foreign languages in patient care skill
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.