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

speech and language therapisttoaudiologist

A speech and language therapist already meets 62% of what the audiologist role asks for. The move turns on 22 required skills not yet in the profile.

From speech and language therapist
62%
Overlap1
To audiologist
43 Skills carried over
22 Required, not held
57.6 Difficulty2
Career overlap Strong match

62%

Learning distance Substantial retraining

57.6/ 100

1 Share of the audiologist role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the speech and language therapist 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 audiologist role treats 38 of its required skills as things a speech and language therapist already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • accept own accountability
  • adhere to organisational guidelines
  • advise on healthcare users' informed consent
  • apply context specific clinical competences
  • apply organisational techniques
  • audiology

What stands in the way is 22 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 43 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A audiologist role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a speech and language therapist background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held audiology health and welfare
  • already held audiometry health and welfare
  • already held speech techniques arts and humanities
  • already held hearing loss health and welfare
  • already held interpret diagnostic tests in otorhinolaryngology information skills
  • already held psychoacoustics social sciences, journalism and information

All 43 carried skills, including the 38 the audiologist role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 28 missing skills fall into 11 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 6 required, 3 supplementary
  • required, not held balance disorders required
  • required, not held physiology of balance required
  • required, not held physiology of hearing required
  • required, not held hearing aids required
  • required, not held human ear required
  • required, not held neurophysiology required
  • optional, not held counselling methods optional
  • optional, not held disability types optional
  • optional, not held geriatrics optional
02 information skills 3 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held diagnose hearing impairement required
  • required, not held evaluate the psychological impact of hearing problems required
  • required, not held conduct health related research required
  • optional, not held conduct research on hearing topics optional
03 assisting and caring 3 required
  • required, not held adjust cochlear implants required
  • required, not held clean patients' ear canals required
  • required, not held adapt hearing tests required
04 working with machinery and specialised equipment 3 required
  • required, not held adjust hearing aids required
  • required, not held use of specialised instruments in otorhinolaryngology required
  • required, not held use special hearing equipment for tests required
05 communication, collaboration and creativity 2 required
  • required, not held counsel patients on improving hearing required
  • required, not held instruct on the use of hearing aids required
06 management skills 1 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held provide treatment strategies for challenges to human health required
  • optional, not held supervise audiology team optional

5 further areas in the appendix

Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a audiologist 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 43 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • 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 context specific clinical competences skill
  • already held apply organisational techniques skill
  • already held audiology knowledge
  • already held audiometry knowledge
  • 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 health care legislation knowledge
  • already held hearing loss knowledge
  • already held human anatomy knowledge
  • already held human physiology knowledge
  • already held hygiene in a health care setting knowledge
  • already held inform policy makers on health-related challenges skill
  • already held interact with healthcare users skill
  • already held interpret diagnostic tests in otorhinolaryngology skill
  • already held listen actively skill
  • already held manage healthcare users' data skill
  • already held monitor patients' progress related to treatment skill
  • already held pathology knowledge
  • already held promote inclusion skill
  • already held provide health education skill
  • already held psychoacoustics knowledge
  • already held refer healthcare users skill
  • already held respond to changing situations in health care skill
  • already held undertake clinical audit 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
  • already held paediatrics knowledge
  • already held pedagogy knowledge
  • already held speech techniques knowledge
  • already held use foreign languages for health-related research skill
  • already held use foreign languages in patient care skill
The 5 learning areas not shown above
Skill to acquire Tier
07 arts and humanities 1 required
  • required, not held communication related to hearing impairment required
08 handling and moving 1 required
  • required, not held produce impressions for ear moulds required
09 natural sciences, mathematics and statistics 1 required
  • required, not held acoustics required
10 services 1 required
  • required, not held health care system required
11 social sciences, journalism and information 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held human psychological development optional
6 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held conduct research on hearing topics optional
  • optional, not held supervise audiology team optional
  • optional, not held human psychological development optional
  • optional, not held counselling methods optional
  • optional, not held disability types optional
  • optional, not held geriatrics optional
44 held skills the audiologist role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role autism knowledge
  • not needed by the target role behavioural neurology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role bobath therapy knowledge
  • not needed by the target role conduct polysomnography skill
  • not needed by the target role conduct research on speech-related topics skill
  • not needed by the target role counsel on communication disorders skill
  • not needed by the target role counsel patients on improving speech skill
  • not needed by the target role cued speech knowledge
  • not needed by the target role diagnose speech disorders skill
  • not needed by the target role encourage healthcare user's self-monitoring skill
  • not needed by the target role evaluate the psychological impact of speech problems skill
  • not needed by the target role exercise patience skill
  • not needed by the target role facial gymnastics knowledge
  • not needed by the target role first aid knowledge
  • not needed by the target role formulate a case conceptualisation model for therapy skill
  • not needed by the target role health care occupation-specific ethics knowledge
  • not needed by the target role linguistics knowledge
  • not needed by the target role lip reading knowledge
  • not needed by the target role logopaedics knowledge
  • not needed by the target role manage the neuropsychiatric sequelae of stroke skill
  • not needed by the target role medical informatics knowledge
  • not needed by the target role medical terminology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role movement techniques knowledge
  • not needed by the target role neurology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role neuropsychology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role organise relapse prevention skill
  • not needed by the target role otorhinolaryngologic conditions knowledge
  • not needed by the target role perform therapy sessions skill
  • not needed by the target role phonetics knowledge
  • not needed by the target role phoniatrics knowledge
  • not needed by the target role professional documentation in health care knowledge
  • not needed by the target role promote good habits to avoid communication disorders skill
  • not needed by the target role provide stroke rehabilitation services skill
  • not needed by the target role psychiatry knowledge
  • not needed by the target role psycholinguistics knowledge
  • not needed by the target role psychology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role record healthcare users' progress related to treatment skill
  • not needed by the target role sign language knowledge
  • not needed by the target role special needs education knowledge
  • not needed by the target role supervise speech and language team skill

4 further entries not listed here

13 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 balance disorders required
  • required, not held physiology of balance required
  • required, not held physiology of hearing required
  • required, not held acoustics required
  • required, not held communication related to hearing impairment required
  • required, not held health care system required
  • required, not held hearing aids required
  • required, not held human ear required
  • required, not held neurophysiology required
  • optional, not held human psychological development optional
  • optional, not held counselling methods optional
  • optional, not held disability types optional
  • optional, not held geriatrics optional
Index

Other moves recorded from speech and language therapist

Full index of moves from speech and language therapist

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.