midwifetomaternity support worker
A midwife already meets 74% of what the maternity support worker role asks for. The move turns on 9 required skills not yet in the profile.
74%
35.5/ 100
1 Share of the maternity support worker 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 maternity support worker role treats 23 of its required skills as things a midwife already does. These are the ones it depends on most.
- advise on family planning
- advise on pregnancies at risk
- advise on pregnancy
- assist on pregnancy abnormality
- care for the new-born infant
- childbirth
What stands in the way is 9 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 38 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A maternity support worker 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 assist on pregnancy abnormality assisting and caring
- already held care for the new-born infant assisting and caring
- already held empathise with the woman's family during and after pregnancy assisting and caring
- already held examine the new-born infant information skills
- already held pregnancy health and welfare
- already held provide postnatal care assisting and caring
All 38 carried skills, including the 23 the maternity support worker role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 12 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.
- required, not held work with nursing staff required
- required, not held communicate with nursing staff required
- required, not held interact with healthcare users required
- required, not held support nurses required
- required, not held work under supervision in care required
- optional, not held promote health and safety optional
- required, not held provide basic support to patients required
- required, not held empathise with the healthcare user required
- optional, not held distribute meals to patients optional
- required, not held monitor basic patients signs required
- required, not held identify abnormalities required
- optional, not held have computer literacy optional
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a maternity support worker role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 monitor basic patients signs skill · sector specific
- 02 provide basic support to patients skill · sector specific
- 03 work with nursing staff skill · 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 38 skills that carry over
- already held advise on family planning skill
- already held advise on pregnancies at risk skill
- already held advise on pregnancy skill
- already held assist on pregnancy abnormality skill
- already held care for the new-born infant skill
- already held childbirth knowledge
- 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 deal with emergency care situations skill
- already held empathise with the woman's family during and after pregnancy skill
- already held ensure safety of healthcare users skill
- already held examine the new-born infant skill
- already held follow clinical guidelines skill
- already held health education knowledge
- already held human anatomy knowledge
- already held hygiene in a health care setting knowledge
- already held listen actively skill
- already held pregnancy knowledge
- already held provide postnatal care skill
- already held provide pre-natal care skill
- already held work in a multicultural environment in health care skill
- already held work in multidisciplinary health teams skill
- already held anaesthetics knowledge
- already held analgesics knowledge
- already held apply context specific clinical competences skill
- already held assess the course of breast-feeding period skill
- already held embryology knowledge
- already held microbiology-bacteriology knowledge
- already held monitor pregnancy skill
- already held neonatology knowledge
- already held postpartum period knowledge
- already held preparation for child delivery knowledge
- already held preparation for parenthood knowledge
- already held provide health education skill
- already held sex education knowledge
- already held use different communication channels skill
- already held use obstetric sonography skill
3 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held distribute meals to patients optional
- optional, not held promote health and safety optional
- optional, not held have computer literacy optional
50 held skills the maternity support worker role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role accept own accountability skill
- 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 apply acupuncture skill
- not needed by the target role apply organisational techniques skill
- not needed by the target role carry out treatment prescribed by doctors skill
- 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 conduct research on reproductive medicine skill
- not needed by the target role conduct spontaneous child deliveries skill
- not needed by the target role develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship skill
- not needed by the target role dietetics knowledge
- not needed by the target role educate on the prevention of illness skill
- not needed by the target role epidemiology knowledge
- 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 homeopathy knowledge
- not needed by the target role inform policy makers on health-related challenges skill
- 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 obstetric ultrasonography knowledge
- not needed by the target role pathology knowledge
- not needed by the target role pedagogy knowledge
- not needed by the target role perform antepartum fetal monitoring skill
- not needed by the target role pharmacology knowledge
- not needed by the target role phytotherapy knowledge
- not needed by the target role postpartum legal protection knowledge
- not needed by the target role prescribe medication skill
- not needed by the target role promote inclusion skill
- not needed by the target role provide care for the mother during labour skill
- not needed by the target role provide education on family life skill
- not needed by the target role provide information on the effects of childbirth on sexuality skill
- not needed by the target role provide pregnancy termination care skill
- not needed by the target role provide treatment strategies for challenges to human health skill
- not needed by the target role psychology knowledge
- not needed by the target role radiological procedures knowledge
- not needed by the target role relaxation techniques knowledge
10 further entries not listed here
Other moves recorded from midwife
- 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
- pharmacy assistant 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.