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

maternity support workertonurse assistant

A maternity support worker already meets 38% of what the nurse assistant role asks for. The move turns on 20 required skills not yet in the profile.

From maternity support worker
38%
Overlap1
To nurse assistant
19 Skills carried over
20 Required, not held
70.9 Difficulty2
Career overlap Distant match

38%

Learning distance Substantial retraining

70.9/ 100

1 Share of the nurse assistant role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the maternity support worker 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 nurse assistant role treats 16 of its required skills as things a maternity support worker already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • communicate with nursing staff
  • comply with legislation related to health care
  • comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
  • contribute to continuity of health care
  • empathise with the healthcare user
  • ensure safety of healthcare users

What stands in the way is 20 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 19 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A nurse assistant role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a maternity support worker background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held identify abnormalities information skills
  • already held communicate with nursing staff communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held provide basic support to patients assisting and caring
  • already held work with nursing staff communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held support nurses communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held distribute meals to patients assisting and caring

All 19 carried skills, including the 16 the nurse assistant role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 41 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.

Skill to acquire Tier
01 assisting and caring 7 required, 2 supplementary
  • required, not held apply nursing care in long-term care required
  • required, not held apply person-centred care required
  • required, not held implement nursing care required
  • required, not held apply sustainability principles in health care required
  • required, not held implement fundamentals of nursing required
  • required, not held promote inclusion required
  • required, not held provide professional care in nursing required
  • optional, not held follow-up patients with heart attack optional
  • optional, not held perform venous cannulation optional
02 health and welfare 5 required, 14 supplementary
  • required, not held disability care required
  • required, not held person centred care required
  • required, not held first aid required
  • required, not held nursing principles required
  • required, not held nursing science required
  • optional, not held acute care optional
  • optional, not held palliative care optional
  • optional, not held adolescence medicine optional
  • optional, not held disability types optional
  • optional, not held general medicine optional
  • optional, not held geriatrics optional
  • optional, not held human physiology optional
  • optional, not held infection control optional
  • optional, not held innovation in nursing optional
  • optional, not held medicines optional
  • optional, not held paediatrics optional
  • optional, not held pathology optional
  • optional, not held primary care optional
  • optional, not held resuscitation optional
03 communication, collaboration and creativity 5 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held accept own accountability required
  • required, not held advise on healthcare users' informed consent required
  • required, not held solve problems in healthcare required
  • required, not held address problems critically required
  • required, not held communicate in healthcare required
  • optional, not held promote a positive image of nursing optional
04 management skills 2 required
  • required, not held plan nursing care required
  • required, not held respond to changing situations in health care required
05 business, administration and law 1 required
  • required, not held health care legislation required
06 information skills 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held perform diagnostic testing for allergies optional

3 further areas in the appendix

Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a nurse assistant 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 19 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held communicate with nursing staff skill
  • already held comply with legislation related to health care skill
  • already held comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice skill
  • already held contribute to continuity of health care skill
  • already held empathise with the healthcare user skill
  • already held ensure safety of healthcare users skill
  • already held follow clinical guidelines skill
  • already held hygiene in a health care setting knowledge
  • already held identify abnormalities skill
  • already held interact with healthcare users skill
  • already held listen actively skill
  • already held monitor basic patients signs skill
  • already held provide basic support to patients skill
  • already held support nurses skill
  • already held work in multidisciplinary health teams skill
  • already held work with nursing staff skill
  • already held deal with emergency care situations skill
  • already held distribute meals to patients skill
  • already held human anatomy knowledge
The 3 learning areas not shown above
Skill to acquire Tier
07 natural sciences, mathematics and statistics 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held pharmacology optional
08 services 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held safe management of medicines optional
09 working with computers 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held use electronic health records in nursing optional
21 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held acute care optional
  • optional, not held follow-up patients with heart attack optional
  • optional, not held palliative care optional
  • optional, not held perform diagnostic testing for allergies optional
  • optional, not held perform venous cannulation optional
  • optional, not held safe management of medicines optional
  • optional, not held use electronic health records in nursing optional
  • optional, not held adolescence medicine optional
  • optional, not held disability types optional
  • optional, not held general medicine optional
  • optional, not held geriatrics optional
  • optional, not held human physiology optional
  • optional, not held infection control optional
  • optional, not held innovation in nursing optional
  • optional, not held medicines optional
  • optional, not held paediatrics optional
  • optional, not held pathology optional
  • optional, not held pharmacology optional
  • optional, not held primary care optional
  • optional, not held promote a positive image of nursing optional
  • optional, not held resuscitation optional
31 held skills the nurse assistant role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role advise on family planning skill
  • not needed by the target role advise on pregnancies at risk skill
  • not needed by the target role advise on pregnancy skill
  • not needed by the target role anaesthetics knowledge
  • not needed by the target role analgesics knowledge
  • not needed by the target role apply context specific clinical competences skill
  • not needed by the target role assess the course of breast-feeding period skill
  • not needed by the target role assist on pregnancy abnormality skill
  • not needed by the target role care for the new-born infant skill
  • not needed by the target role childbirth knowledge
  • not needed by the target role embryology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role empathise with the woman's family during and after pregnancy skill
  • not needed by the target role examine the new-born infant skill
  • not needed by the target role have computer literacy skill
  • not needed by the target role health education knowledge
  • not needed by the target role microbiology-bacteriology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role monitor pregnancy skill
  • not needed by the target role neonatology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role postpartum period knowledge
  • not needed by the target role pregnancy knowledge
  • not needed by the target role preparation for child delivery knowledge
  • not needed by the target role preparation for parenthood knowledge
  • not needed by the target role promote health and safety skill
  • not needed by the target role provide health education skill
  • not needed by the target role provide postnatal care skill
  • not needed by the target role provide pre-natal care skill
  • not needed by the target role sex education knowledge
  • not needed by the target role use different communication channels skill
  • not needed by the target role use obstetric sonography skill
  • not needed by the target role work in a multicultural environment in health care skill
  • not needed by the target role work under supervision in care skill
22 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 disability care required
  • required, not held person centred care required
  • required, not held first aid required
  • required, not held health care legislation required
  • required, not held nursing principles required
  • required, not held nursing science required
  • optional, not held acute care optional
  • optional, not held palliative care optional
  • optional, not held safe management of medicines optional
  • optional, not held adolescence medicine optional
  • optional, not held disability types optional
  • optional, not held general medicine optional
  • optional, not held geriatrics optional
  • optional, not held human physiology optional
  • optional, not held infection control optional
  • optional, not held innovation in nursing optional
  • optional, not held medicines optional
  • optional, not held paediatrics optional
  • optional, not held pathology optional
  • optional, not held pharmacology optional
  • optional, not held primary care optional
  • optional, not held resuscitation optional
Index

Other moves recorded from maternity support worker

Full index of moves from maternity support worker

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.