dietetic techniciantosterile services technician
A dietetic technician already meets 35% of what the sterile services technician role asks for. The move turns on 13 required skills not yet in the profile.
35%
64.7/ 100
1 Share of the sterile services technician role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the dietetic 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 this move works
A sterile services technician role treats 8 of its required skills as things a dietetic technician already does. These are the ones it depends on most.
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- communicate in healthcare
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- follow clinical guidelines
- hygiene in a health care setting
What stands in the way is 13 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 9 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A sterile services technician role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a dietetic technician background worth leading with.
- already held professional documentation in health care health and welfare
- already held medical informatics health and welfare
- already held hygiene in a health care setting services
- already held comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice assisting and caring
- already held follow clinical guidelines assisting and caring
- already held communicate in healthcare communication, collaboration and creativity
All 9 carried skills, including the 8 the sterile services technician role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 21 missing skills fall into 9 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 sterilise medical equipment required
- required, not held participate in medical inventory control required
- required, not held repackage medical equipment after sterilisation required
- optional, not held follow procedures to control substances hazardous to health optional
- optional, not held dispose medical waste optional
- optional, not held handle chemical cleaning agents optional
- required, not held surgical asepsis required
- required, not held infection control required
- required, not held sterilization techniques required
- optional, not held medical devices materials optional
- required, not held microbiology-bacteriology required
- required, not held microscopic techniques required
- required, not held operate microscope required
- required, not held use technical equipment for sterilisation required
- required, not held manage infection control in the facility required
- optional, not held select hazard control optional
- required, not held follow written instructions required
- optional, not held communicate in foreign languages with health service providers optional
3 further areas in the appendix
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a sterile services technician role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 microbiology-bacteriology knowledge · sector specific
- 02 sterilise medical equipment skill · sector specific
- 03 surgical asepsis knowledge · 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 9 skills that carry over
- already held adhere to organisational guidelines skill
- already held communicate in healthcare skill
- already held comply with legislation related to health care skill
- already held comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice skill
- already held follow clinical guidelines skill
- already held hygiene in a health care setting knowledge
- already held professional documentation in health care knowledge
- already held work in multidisciplinary health teams skill
- already held medical informatics knowledge
The 3 learning areas not shown above
- required, not held maintain personal hygiene standards required
- optional, not held e-procurement optional
- optional, not held health care system optional
8 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held e-procurement optional
- optional, not held follow procedures to control substances hazardous to health optional
- optional, not held communicate in foreign languages with health service providers optional
- optional, not held dispose medical waste optional
- optional, not held handle chemical cleaning agents optional
- optional, not held health care system optional
- optional, not held medical devices materials optional
- optional, not held select hazard control optional
29 held skills the sterile services technician role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role calculation of food energy knowledge
- not needed by the target role composition of diets knowledge
- not needed by the target role counselling methods knowledge
- not needed by the target role deal with emergency care situations skill
- not needed by the target role dietetics knowledge
- not needed by the target role educate healthcare users on nutrition skill
- not needed by the target role empathise with the healthcare user skill
- not needed by the target role european food safety policy knowledge
- not needed by the target role food hygiene rules knowledge
- not needed by the target role food preservation knowledge
- not needed by the target role food safety standards knowledge
- not needed by the target role geriatrics knowledge
- not needed by the target role health care legislation knowledge
- not needed by the target role human anatomy knowledge
- not needed by the target role identify nutritional properties of food skill
- not needed by the target role interact with healthcare users skill
- not needed by the target role manage healthcare users' data skill
- not needed by the target role medical terminology knowledge
- not needed by the target role monitor stock level skill
- not needed by the target role nutrition of healthy persons knowledge
- not needed by the target role obesity knowledge
- not needed by the target role pedagogy knowledge
- not needed by the target role plan patient menus skill
- not needed by the target role prepare infant formulae skill
- not needed by the target role store raw food materials skill
- not needed by the target role use e-health and mobile health technologies skill
- not needed by the target role use food preparation techniques skill
- not needed by the target role use foreign languages in patient care skill
- not needed by the target role work in a multicultural environment in health care skill
8 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 microbiology-bacteriology required
- required, not held surgical asepsis required
- required, not held infection control required
- required, not held microscopic techniques required
- required, not held sterilization techniques required
- optional, not held e-procurement optional
- optional, not held health care system optional
- optional, not held medical devices materials 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.