temperature screenertocovid tester
A temperature screener already meets 23% of what the covid tester role asks for. The move turns on 19 required skills not yet in the profile.
23%
76.6/ 100
1 Share of the covid tester role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the temperature screener 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 covid tester role treats 6 of its required skills as things a temperature screener already does. These are the ones it depends on most.
- ensure safety regulations in dealing with infectious diseases
- health records management
- hygiene in a health care setting
- infection control
- interview people
- wear appropriate protective gear
What stands in the way is 19 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 6 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A covid tester role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a temperature screener background worth leading with.
- already held ensure safety regulations in dealing with infectious diseases assisting and caring
- already held infection control health and welfare
- already held health records management business, administration and law
- already held hygiene in a health care setting services
- already held interview people communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held wear appropriate protective gear assisting and caring
All 6 carried skills, including the 6 the covid tester role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 22 missing skills fall into 7 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 ensure safety of healthcare users required
- required, not held maintain healthcare user data confidentiality required
- required, not held comply with legislation related to health care required
- required, not held empathise with the healthcare user required
- required, not held follow clinical guidelines required
- required, not held communicable diseases required
- required, not held medical informatics required
- required, not held medical terminology required
- required, not held sterilization techniques required
- optional, not held nursing principles optional
- required, not held prevent communicable diseases' outbreaks required
- required, not held communicate in healthcare required
- required, not held interact with healthcare users required
- optional, not held advise patients on infectious diseases when travelling optional
- required, not held collect biological samples from patients required
- required, not held label samples required
- required, not held preserve samples required
- required, not held use electronic health records management system required
- required, not held implement data quality processes required
- required, not held perform PCR covid test required
- optional, not held drive vehicles optional
1 further area in the appendix
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a covid tester role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 perform PCR covid test skill · occupation specific
- 02 prevent communicable diseases' outbreaks skill · occupation specific
- 03 collect biological samples from patients 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 6 skills that carry over
- already held ensure safety regulations in dealing with infectious diseases skill
- already held health records management knowledge
- already held hygiene in a health care setting knowledge
- already held infection control knowledge
- already held interview people skill
- already held wear appropriate protective gear skill
The 1 learning area not shown above
- required, not held health care legislation required
3 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held advise patients on infectious diseases when travelling optional
- optional, not held drive vehicles optional
- optional, not held nursing principles optional
10 held skills the covid tester role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role apply social distancing protocols skill
- not needed by the target role customer service knowledge
- not needed by the target role ensure sanitation skill
- not needed by the target role execute working instructions skill
- not needed by the target role greet guests skill
- not needed by the target role maintain customer service skill
- not needed by the target role measure temperature skill
- not needed by the target role observe confidentiality skill
- not needed by the target role provide protective equipment against infectious diseases skill
- not needed by the target role workplace sanitation knowledge
6 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice
Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.
- required, not held communicable diseases required
- required, not held health care legislation required
- required, not held medical informatics required
- required, not held medical terminology required
- required, not held sterilization techniques required
- optional, not held nursing principles optional
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.