Where a healthcare assistant can go next
12 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a healthcare assistant already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Healthcare assistants work in teams of nurses within the occupational fields of nursing, social care, clinical care and care of people of all age-groups. Healthcare assistants assist in the promotion and restoration of patients' health by providing physical and psychological support to patients, friends and families.
- Highest coverage recorded
- 56%
- Destinations
- 12each with a full record
- Within reach
- 0difficulty under 55
- Skills on file
- 46required or supplementary
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
- physiotherapy assistant 56% covered · difficulty 57.3
- dental hygienist 54% covered · difficulty 57.7
- dental technician 51% covered · difficulty 55
- maternity support worker 50% covered · difficulty 60.9
- pharmacy assistant 50% covered · difficulty 61.7
- dental chairside assistant 50% covered · difficulty 63.9
- pharmacy technician 49% covered · difficulty 62.5
- nurse assistant 48% covered · difficulty 62.6
- specialist pharmacist 44% covered · difficulty 68.6
- optometrist 43% covered · difficulty 70
- doctors' surgery assistant 42% covered · difficulty 71.2
- specialist biomedical scientist 41% covered · difficulty 71.2
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healthcare assistant is filed under Service and sales workers, ISCO major group 5. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a healthcare assistant already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.