midwifetodental chairside assistant
A midwife already meets 46% of what the dental chairside assistant role asks for. The move turns on 19 required skills not yet in the profile.
46%
66.4/ 100
1 Share of the dental chairside assistant role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the midwife 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 dental chairside assistant role treats 17 of its required skills as things a midwife already does. These are the ones it depends on most.
- accept own accountability
- apply context specific clinical competences
- apply organisational techniques
- comply with legislation related to health care
- contribute to continuity of health care
- deal with emergency care situations
What stands in the way is 19 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 19 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A dental chairside assistant role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a midwife background worth leading with.
- already held educate on the prevention of illness communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held inform policy makers on health-related challenges communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held use e-health and mobile health technologies working with computers
- already held respond to changing situations in health care management skills
- already held deal with emergency care situations assisting and caring
All 19 carried skills, including the 17 the dental chairside assistant role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 24 missing skills fall into 6 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 pass dental instruments required
- required, not held educate on oral healthcare and disease prevention required
- required, not held follow dentists' instructions required
- required, not held promote health and safety policies in health services required
- required, not held communicate in healthcare required
- required, not held interact with healthcare users required
- required, not held assist the dentist during the dental treatment procedure required
- required, not held prepare patients for dental treatment required
- required, not held deal with patients' anxiety required
- required, not held empathise with the healthcare user required
- required, not held manage infection control in the facility required
- required, not held prepare materials for dental procedures required
- required, not held provide dental administrative post-treatment patient services required
- optional, not held handle payments in dentistry optional
- optional, not held administer appointments optional
- optional, not held perform multiple tasks at the same time optional
- required, not held observe patient throughout dental treatment required
- required, not held perform dental charting required
- optional, not held record healthcare users' billing information optional
- required, not held prepare dental instruments for sterilization required
- required, not held perform dental radiographs required
- optional, not held use technical equipment for sterilisation optional
- required, not held fabricate mouth models required
- required, not held maintain dental station and operatory required
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a dental chairside assistant role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 assist the dentist during the dental treatment procedure skill · occupation specific
- 02 fabricate mouth models skill · occupation specific
- 03 maintain dental station and operatory skill · occupation specific
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 19 skills that carry over
- already held accept own accountability skill
- already held apply context specific clinical competences skill
- already held apply organisational techniques skill
- already held comply with legislation related to health care skill
- already held contribute to continuity of health care skill
- already held deal with emergency care situations skill
- already held develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship skill
- already held educate on the prevention of illness skill
- already held ensure safety of healthcare users skill
- already held follow clinical guidelines skill
- already held listen actively skill
- already held promote inclusion skill
- already held provide health education skill
- already held respond to changing situations in health care skill
- already held use e-health and mobile health technologies skill
- already held work in a multicultural environment in health care skill
- already held work in multidisciplinary health teams skill
- already held inform policy makers on health-related challenges skill
- already held use foreign languages in patient care skill
5 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held handle payments in dentistry optional
- optional, not held administer appointments optional
- optional, not held perform multiple tasks at the same time optional
- optional, not held record healthcare users' billing information optional
- optional, not held use technical equipment for sterilisation optional
69 held skills the dental chairside assistant role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role address problems critically skill
- not needed by the target role address side effects of menopause skill
- not needed by the target role adhere to organisational guidelines skill
- not needed by the target role advise on childbirth skill
- 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 acupuncture 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 carry out treatment prescribed by doctors skill
- not needed by the target role childbirth knowledge
- not needed by the target role collect biological samples from patients skill
- not needed by the target role company policies knowledge
- not needed by the target role comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice skill
- not needed by the target role conduct research on reproductive medicine skill
- not needed by the target role conduct spontaneous child deliveries skill
- not needed by the target role dietetics 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 epidemiology knowledge
- not needed by the target role examine the new-born infant skill
- not needed by the target role female reproductive system pathology knowledge
- not needed by the target role health care legislation knowledge
- not needed by the target role health care occupation-specific ethics knowledge
- not needed by the target role health education knowledge
- not needed by the target role homeopathy knowledge
- not needed by the target role human anatomy knowledge
- not needed by the target role hygiene in a health care setting knowledge
- not needed by the target role lactation knowledge
- not needed by the target role manage healthcare users' data skill
- 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 obstetric ultrasonography knowledge
- not needed by the target role pathology knowledge
- not needed by the target role pedagogy knowledge
29 further entries not listed here
Other moves recorded from midwife
- maternity support worker 74% covered · moderate
- healthcare assistant 56% covered · moderate
- physiotherapy assistant 51% covered · substantial
- dental hygienist 50% covered · substantial
- dental technician 50% covered · substantial
- specialist pharmacist 49% covered · substantial
- respiratory therapy technician 49% covered · moderate
- orthoptist 47% covered · substantial
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.