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

leisure attendanttosport therapist

A leisure attendant already meets 16% of what the sport therapist role asks for. The move turns on 17 required skills not yet in the profile.

From leisure attendant
16%
Overlap1
To sport therapist
4 Skills carried over
17 Required, not held
80.4 Difficulty2
Career overlap Distant match

16%

Learning distance A rebuild

80.4/ 100

1 Share of the sport therapist role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the leisure attendant 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 sport therapist role treats 3 of its required skills as things a leisure attendant already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • analyse personal fitness information
  • motivate fitness clients
  • promote healthy fitness environment

What stands in the way is 17 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 4 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A sport therapist role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a leisure attendant background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held motivate fitness clients management skills
  • already held provide fitness information communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held analyse personal fitness information management skills
  • already held promote healthy fitness environment communication, collaboration and creativity

All 4 carried skills, including the 3 the sport therapist role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 17 missing skills fall into 4 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 assisting and caring 6 required
  • required, not held prescribe exercises for controlled health conditions required
  • required, not held correct potentially harmful movements required
  • required, not held ensure safety of exercise environment required
  • required, not held integrate exercise science to the design of the programme required
  • required, not held prescribe exercises required
  • required, not held attend to fitness clients under controlled health conditions required
02 communication, collaboration and creativity 5 required
  • required, not held adapt fitness exercises required
  • required, not held inform clients of healthy lifestyle benefits required
  • required, not held integrate principles of training required
  • required, not held manage fitness communication required
  • required, not held demonstrate professional attitude to clients required
03 information skills 3 required
  • required, not held conduct fitness risk assessment required
  • required, not held collect client fitness information required
  • required, not held assess physical conditions of clients required
04 management skills 3 required
  • required, not held identify health objectives required
  • required, not held prepare exercise session required
  • required, not held show professional responsibility required
Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a sport therapist 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 4 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held analyse personal fitness information skill
  • already held motivate fitness clients skill
  • already held promote healthy fitness environment skill
  • already held provide fitness information skill
0 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
8 held skills the sport therapist role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role maintain the exercise environment skill
  • not needed by the target role process payments skill
  • not needed by the target role promote fitness customer referral skill
  • not needed by the target role promote healthy lifestyle skill
  • not needed by the target role provide fitness customer care skill
  • not needed by the target role provide fitness customer service skill
  • not needed by the target role skateboard knowledge
  • not needed by the target role work in fitness teams skill
Index
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.