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

midwifetospecialist pharmacist

A midwife already meets 49% of what the specialist pharmacist role asks for. The move turns on 25 required skills not yet in the profile.

From midwife
49%
Overlap1
To specialist pharmacist
29 Skills carried over
25 Required, not held
64.5 Difficulty2
Career overlap Partial match

49%

Learning distance Substantial retraining

64.5/ 100

1 Share of the specialist pharmacist 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

Why this move works

A specialist pharmacist role treats 25 of its required skills as things a midwife already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • accept own accountability
  • adhere to organisational guidelines
  • apply context specific clinical competences
  • apply organisational techniques
  • comply with legislation related to health care
  • comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice

What stands in the way is 25 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 29 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A specialist pharmacist 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.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held homeopathy health and welfare
  • already held prescribe medication assisting and caring
  • already held provide treatment strategies for challenges to human health management skills
  • already held educate on the prevention of illness communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held pharmacology natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
  • already held use foreign languages for health-related research communication, collaboration and creativity

All 29 carried skills, including the 25 the specialist pharmacist role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 31 missing skills fall into 8 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 communication, collaboration and creativity 7 required
  • required, not held advise on healthcare users' informed consent required
  • required, not held advise on poisoning incidents required
  • required, not held provide pharmaceutical advice required
  • required, not held provide specialist pharmaceutical advice required
  • required, not held communicate in healthcare required
  • required, not held interact with healthcare users required
  • required, not held provide medication information required
02 health and welfare 6 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held cancer risks required
  • required, not held pharmacognosy required
  • required, not held pharmacotherapy required
  • required, not held pharmaceutical industry required
  • required, not held pharmaceutical technology required
  • required, not held pharmacokinetics required
  • optional, not held medical devices optional
03 natural sciences, mathematics and statistics 6 required
  • required, not held botany required
  • required, not held inorganic chemistry required
  • required, not held organic chemistry required
  • required, not held pharmaceutical chemistry required
  • required, not held physics required
  • required, not held toxicology required
04 assisting and caring 4 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held apply person-centred care required
  • required, not held provide anti-cancer medical treatment required
  • required, not held provide specialist pharmaceutical care required
  • required, not held empathise with the healthcare user required
  • optional, not held manage adverse reactions to drugs optional
05 information skills 1 required, 2 supplementary
  • required, not held review patient's medical data required
  • optional, not held perform diagnostic testing for allergies optional
  • optional, not held conduct health related research optional
06 business, administration and law 1 required
  • required, not held pharmacy law required

2 further areas in the appendix

Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a specialist pharmacist 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 29 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held accept own accountability skill
  • already held adhere to organisational guidelines 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 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 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 human anatomy knowledge
  • already held inform policy makers on health-related challenges skill
  • already held listen actively skill
  • already held manage healthcare users' data skill
  • already held microbiology-bacteriology knowledge
  • already held pharmacology knowledge
  • already held promote inclusion skill
  • already held provide health education skill
  • already held provide treatment strategies for challenges to human health 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 homeopathy knowledge
  • already held prescribe medication skill
  • already held use foreign languages for health-related research skill
  • already held use foreign languages in patient care skill
The 2 learning areas not shown above
Skill to acquire Tier
07 management skills 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held improve safety of medicines optional
08 working with machinery and specialised equipment 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held maintain medical devices optional
6 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held improve safety of medicines optional
  • optional, not held manage adverse reactions to drugs optional
  • optional, not held perform diagnostic testing for allergies optional
  • optional, not held conduct health related research optional
  • optional, not held maintain medical devices optional
  • optional, not held medical devices optional
59 held skills the specialist pharmacist role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • 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 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 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 hygiene in a health care setting knowledge
  • not needed by the target role lactation 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
  • not needed by the target role perform antepartum fetal monitoring skill
  • not needed by the target role phytotherapy knowledge
  • not needed by the target role postpartum legal protection 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

19 further entries not listed here

14 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 botany required
  • required, not held cancer risks required
  • required, not held pharmacognosy required
  • required, not held pharmacotherapy required
  • required, not held inorganic chemistry required
  • required, not held organic chemistry required
  • required, not held pharmaceutical chemistry required
  • required, not held pharmaceutical industry required
  • required, not held pharmaceutical technology required
  • required, not held pharmacokinetics required
  • required, not held pharmacy law required
  • required, not held physics required
  • required, not held toxicology required
  • optional, not held medical devices optional
Index

Other moves recorded from midwife

Full index of moves from midwife

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.