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

sterile services techniciantophlebotomist

A sterile services technician already meets 31% of what the phlebotomist role asks for. The move turns on 16 required skills not yet in the profile.

From sterile services technician
31%
Overlap1
To phlebotomist
9 Skills carried over
16 Required, not held
73 Difficulty2
Career overlap Distant match

31%

Learning distance Substantial retraining

73/ 100

1 Share of the phlebotomist role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the sterile services technician 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 phlebotomist role treats 9 of its required skills as things a sterile services technician already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • communicate in healthcare
  • comply with legislation related to health care
  • hygiene in a health care setting
  • infection control
  • manage infection control in the facility
  • medical informatics

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 9 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A phlebotomist role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a sterile services technician background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held use technical equipment for sterilisation working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • already held infection control health and welfare
  • already held manage infection control in the facility assisting and caring
  • already held sterilization techniques health and welfare
  • already held medical informatics health and welfare
  • already held hygiene in a health care setting services

All 9 carried skills, including the 9 the phlebotomist role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 28 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 health and welfare 4 required, 6 supplementary
  • required, not held blood donation required
  • required, not held techniques of blood-sampling required
  • required, not held human anatomy required
  • required, not held human physiology required
  • optional, not held blood product storage conditions optional
  • optional, not held blood collection on babies optional
  • optional, not held blood type classification optional
  • optional, not held paediatric phlebotomy procedures optional
  • optional, not held blood transfusion optional
  • optional, not held medical terminology optional
02 assisting and caring 4 required, 2 supplementary
  • required, not held ensure safety of healthcare users required
  • required, not held perform venepuncture procedures required
  • required, not held respond to healthcare users' extreme emotions required
  • required, not held empathise with the healthcare user required
  • optional, not held assist patients with special needs optional
  • optional, not held perform reconstructive microsurgery optional
03 handling and moving 4 required
  • required, not held collect biological samples from patients required
  • required, not held label blood samples required
  • required, not held label medical laboratory samples required
  • required, not held transport blood samples required
04 information skills 2 required, 2 supplementary
  • required, not held monitor basic patients signs required
  • required, not held maintain professional records required
  • optional, not held conduct cancer screening tests optional
  • optional, not held conduct routine blood testing optional
05 communication, collaboration and creativity 1 required, 2 supplementary
  • required, not held interact with healthcare users required
  • optional, not held explain the molecular basis of a disease to patients optional
  • optional, not held use foreign languages in patient care optional
06 working with machinery and specialised equipment 1 required
  • required, not held use venepuncture procedure equipment required
Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a phlebotomist 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 9 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held communicate in healthcare skill
  • already held comply with legislation related to health care skill
  • already held hygiene in a health care setting knowledge
  • already held infection control knowledge
  • already held manage infection control in the facility skill
  • already held medical informatics knowledge
  • already held sterilization techniques knowledge
  • already held use technical equipment for sterilisation skill
  • already held work in multidisciplinary health teams skill
12 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held blood product storage conditions optional
  • optional, not held assist patients with special needs optional
  • optional, not held blood collection on babies optional
  • optional, not held blood type classification optional
  • optional, not held conduct cancer screening tests optional
  • optional, not held conduct routine blood testing optional
  • optional, not held explain the molecular basis of a disease to patients optional
  • optional, not held paediatric phlebotomy procedures optional
  • optional, not held perform reconstructive microsurgery optional
  • optional, not held blood transfusion optional
  • optional, not held medical terminology optional
  • optional, not held use foreign languages in patient care optional
21 held skills the phlebotomist role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role adhere to organisational guidelines skill
  • not needed by the target role communicate in foreign languages with health service providers skill
  • not needed by the target role comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice skill
  • not needed by the target role dispose medical waste skill
  • not needed by the target role e-procurement knowledge
  • not needed by the target role follow clinical guidelines skill
  • not needed by the target role follow procedures to control substances hazardous to health skill
  • not needed by the target role follow written instructions skill
  • not needed by the target role handle chemical cleaning agents skill
  • not needed by the target role health care system knowledge
  • not needed by the target role maintain personal hygiene standards skill
  • not needed by the target role medical devices materials knowledge
  • not needed by the target role microbiology-bacteriology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role microscopic techniques knowledge
  • not needed by the target role operate microscope skill
  • not needed by the target role participate in medical inventory control skill
  • not needed by the target role professional documentation in health care knowledge
  • not needed by the target role repackage medical equipment after sterilisation skill
  • not needed by the target role select hazard control skill
  • not needed by the target role sterilise medical equipment skill
  • not needed by the target role surgical asepsis knowledge
10 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 blood donation required
  • required, not held techniques of blood-sampling required
  • required, not held human anatomy required
  • required, not held human physiology required
  • optional, not held blood product storage conditions optional
  • optional, not held blood collection on babies optional
  • optional, not held blood type classification optional
  • optional, not held paediatric phlebotomy procedures optional
  • optional, not held blood transfusion optional
  • optional, not held medical terminology optional
Index

Other moves recorded from sterile services technician

Full index of moves from sterile services technician

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.