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

anaesthetic techniciantophlebotomist

A anaesthetic technician already meets 55% of what the phlebotomist role asks for. The move turns on 10 required skills not yet in the profile.

From anaesthetic technician
55%
Overlap1
To phlebotomist
18 Skills carried over
10 Required, not held
52.3 Difficulty2
Career overlap Partial match

55%

Learning distance Real move, short list to learn

52.3/ 100

1 Share of the phlebotomist role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the anaesthetic 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 15 of its required skills as things a anaesthetic technician already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • communicate in healthcare
  • comply with legislation related to health care
  • empathise with the healthcare user
  • ensure safety of healthcare users
  • human anatomy
  • human physiology

What stands in the way is 10 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 18 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 anaesthetic technician background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held perform venepuncture procedures assisting and caring
  • already held use venepuncture procedure equipment working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • already held techniques of blood-sampling health and welfare
  • already held perform reconstructive microsurgery assisting and caring
  • already held monitor basic patients signs information skills
  • already held infection control health and welfare

All 18 carried skills, including the 15 the phlebotomist role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 19 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.

Skill to acquire Tier
01 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
02 health and welfare 1 required, 5 supplementary
  • required, not held blood donation 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
03 information skills 1 required, 2 supplementary
  • required, not held maintain professional records required
  • optional, not held conduct cancer screening tests optional
  • optional, not held conduct routine blood testing optional
04 assisting and caring 1 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held respond to healthcare users' extreme emotions required
  • optional, not held assist patients with special needs optional
05 communication, collaboration and creativity 1 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held interact with healthcare users required
  • optional, not held explain the molecular basis of a disease to patients optional
06 services 1 required
  • required, not held hygiene in a health care setting required

1 further area in the appendix

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 18 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held communicate in healthcare skill
  • already held comply with legislation related to health care skill
  • already held empathise with the healthcare user skill
  • already held ensure safety of healthcare users skill
  • already held human anatomy knowledge
  • already held human physiology knowledge
  • already held infection control knowledge
  • already held manage infection control in the facility skill
  • already held medical informatics knowledge
  • already held monitor basic patients signs skill
  • already held perform venepuncture procedures skill
  • already held sterilization techniques knowledge
  • already held techniques of blood-sampling knowledge
  • already held use venepuncture procedure equipment skill
  • already held work in multidisciplinary health teams skill
  • already held medical terminology knowledge
  • already held perform reconstructive microsurgery skill
  • already held use foreign languages in patient care skill
The 1 learning area not shown above
Skill to acquire Tier
07 working with machinery and specialised equipment 1 required
  • required, not held use technical equipment for sterilisation required
9 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 blood transfusion optional
40 held skills the phlebotomist role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role administer anaesthetics to patients skill
  • not needed by the target role anaesthetics knowledge
  • not needed by the target role arrange surgery operating site skill
  • not needed by the target role assess patients after surgery skill
  • not needed by the target role assist in epilepsy surgery skill
  • not needed by the target role assist with hemostasis skill
  • not needed by the target role biophysics knowledge
  • not needed by the target role comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice skill
  • not needed by the target role conduct preoperative investigations skill
  • not needed by the target role deal with emergency care situations skill
  • not needed by the target role demonstrate technical skills during neurological surgery skill
  • not needed by the target role dispose medical waste skill
  • not needed by the target role emergency medicine knowledge
  • not needed by the target role emergency surgery knowledge
  • not needed by the target role endoscopy knowledge
  • not needed by the target role ensure the positioning of the patient for surgery skill
  • not needed by the target role first aid knowledge
  • not needed by the target role instruct on allergic reactions to anaesthetics skill
  • not needed by the target role intensive care medicine knowledge
  • not needed by the target role maintain anaesthetic machinery skill
  • not needed by the target role manage acute pain skill
  • not needed by the target role manage adverse reactions to anaesthesia skill
  • not needed by the target role manage healthcare users' data skill
  • not needed by the target role manage trauma through surgical means skill
  • not needed by the target role monitor patients during surgery skill
  • not needed by the target role monitor stock level skill
  • not needed by the target role order supplies for anaesthesia services skill
  • not needed by the target role perform bronchoscopy skill
  • not needed by the target role perform eye surgery skill
  • not needed by the target role perform vascular surgery therapeutic procedures skill
  • not needed by the target role pharmacology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role positions for surgical procedures knowledge
  • not needed by the target role professional documentation in health care knowledge
  • not needed by the target role radiation protection knowledge
  • not needed by the target role resuscitation knowledge
  • not needed by the target role spine surgery knowledge
  • not needed by the target role surgery knowledge
  • not needed by the target role surgical asepsis knowledge
  • not needed by the target role tolerate stress skill
  • not needed by the target role undertake healthcare examination 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.

Skill to acquire Tier
  • required, not held blood donation required
  • required, not held hygiene in a health care setting 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
Index

Other moves recorded from anaesthetic technician

Full index of moves from anaesthetic 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.