Temperature screener to covid 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.
76.6/ 100
1 How much of what a covid tester is expected to do is already part of a temperature screener’s work. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs, because moving into a speciality is not the same problem as moving out of one. 2 Every skill the covid tester role is recorded as needing, required and optional together. What these numbers mean.
Why this move works
A covid tester role treats 6 of its required skills as things a temperature screener already does. You would walk in with these on day one.
- 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 may need to learn
The 22 missing skills fall into 7 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered in the order worth working in. Areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the optional ones. Nothing here is a verdict on you: it is a list of what this particular job asks for that your current one does not.
- still to learn ensure safety of healthcare users required
- still to learn maintain healthcare user data confidentiality required
- still to learn comply with legislation related to health care required
- still to learn empathise with the healthcare user required
- still to learn follow clinical guidelines required
- still to learn communicable diseases required
- still to learn medical informatics required
- still to learn medical terminology required
- still to learn sterilization techniques required
- optional, not held nursing principles optional
- still to learn prevent communicable diseases' outbreaks required
- still to learn communicate in healthcare required
- still to learn interact with healthcare users required
- optional, not held advise patients on infectious diseases when travelling optional
- still to learn collect biological samples from patients required
- still to learn label samples required
- still to learn preserve samples required
- still to learn use electronic health records management system required
- still to learn implement data quality processes required
- still to learn 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 practise this
- 02 prevent communicable diseases' outbreaks practise this
- 03 collect biological samples from patients practise this
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
- still to learn 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.
- still to learn communicable diseases required
- still to learn health care legislation required
- still to learn medical informatics required
- still to learn medical terminology required
- still to learn sterilization techniques required
- optional, not held nursing principles optional
Common questions about this move
Can a temperature screener become a covid tester?
Yes, and it is a career change move. A temperature screener already covers 23% of what a covid tester is expected to do: 6 skills carry over, 6 of which the covid tester role treats as required.
What skills does a temperature screener need to become a covid tester?
19 required skills are missing, plus 3 optional ones. They fall into 7 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, led by assisting and caring. The single most important is perform PCR covid test.
How hard is the move from temperature screener to covid tester?
Its learning distance is 76.6 out of 100, which is the career change band. That accounts for both how much is missing and how specialised those skills are.
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.