Waiting list coordinator to covid tester
A waiting list coordinator already meets 27% of what the covid tester role asks for. The move turns on 18 required skills not yet in the profile.
74.1/ 100
1 How much of what a covid tester is expected to do is already part of a waiting list coordinator’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 7 of its required skills as things a waiting list coordinator already does. You would walk in with these on day one.
- communicate in healthcare
- empathise with the healthcare user
- health records management
- interact with healthcare users
- maintain healthcare user data confidentiality
- medical terminology
What stands in the way is 18 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 7 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 waiting list coordinator background worth leading with.
- already held use electronic health records management system working with computers
- already held health records management business, administration and law
- already held maintain healthcare user data confidentiality assisting and caring
- already held medical terminology health and welfare
- already held interact with healthcare users communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held empathise with the healthcare user assisting and caring
All 7 carried skills, including the 7 the covid tester role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you may need to learn
The 21 missing skills fall into 8 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 regulations in dealing with infectious diseases required
- still to learn ensure safety of healthcare users required
- still to learn comply with legislation related to health care required
- still to learn follow clinical guidelines required
- still to learn wear appropriate protective gear required
- still to learn communicable diseases required
- still to learn infection control required
- still to learn medical informatics required
- still to learn sterilization techniques required
- optional, not held nursing principles 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 prevent communicable diseases' outbreaks required
- still to learn interview people required
- optional, not held advise patients on infectious diseases when travelling optional
- still to learn perform PCR covid test required
- optional, not held drive vehicles optional
- still to learn health care legislation required
2 further areas 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 ensure safety regulations in dealing with infectious diseases practise this
- 02 perform PCR covid test practise this
- 03 prevent communicable diseases' outbreaks 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 7 skills that carry over
- already held communicate in healthcare skill
- already held empathise with the healthcare user skill
- already held health records management knowledge
- already held interact with healthcare users skill
- already held maintain healthcare user data confidentiality skill
- already held medical terminology knowledge
- already held use electronic health records management system skill
The 2 learning areas not shown above
- still to learn hygiene in a health care setting required
- still to learn implement data quality processes 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
18 held skills the covid tester role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role administer appointments skill
- not needed by the target role advise on efficiency improvements skill
- not needed by the target role answer patients' questions skill
- not needed by the target role archive healthcare users' records skill
- not needed by the target role collect statistics on medical records skill
- not needed by the target role communicate by telephone skill
- not needed by the target role customer service knowledge
- not needed by the target role data protection knowledge
- not needed by the target role develop organisational policies skill
- not needed by the target role healthcare administration knowledge
- not needed by the target role identify patients' medical records skill
- not needed by the target role maintain customer service skill
- not needed by the target role manage administrative systems skill
- not needed by the target role manage information in health care skill
- not needed by the target role monitor waiting list skill
- not needed by the target role perform clerical duties skill
- not needed by the target role perform resource planning skill
- not needed by the target role plan schedule skill
7 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 hygiene in a health care setting required
- still to learn infection control required
- still to learn medical informatics required
- still to learn sterilization techniques required
- optional, not held nursing principles optional
Common questions about this move
Can a waiting list coordinator become a covid tester?
Yes, and it is a substantial move. A waiting list coordinator already covers 27% of what a covid tester is expected to do: 7 skills carry over, 7 of which the covid tester role treats as required.
What skills does a waiting list coordinator need to become a covid tester?
18 required skills are missing, plus 3 optional ones. They fall into 8 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, led by assisting and caring. The single most important is ensure safety regulations in dealing with infectious diseases.
How hard is the move from waiting list coordinator to covid tester?
Its learning distance is 74.1 out of 100, which is the substantial 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.