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

nurse responsible for general caretohealthcare assistant

A nurse responsible for general care already meets 66% of what the healthcare assistant role asks for. The move turns on 9 required skills not yet in the profile.

From nurse responsible for general care
66%
Overlap1
To healthcare assistant
27 Skills carried over
9 Required, not held
44.1 Difficulty2
Career overlap Strong match

66%

Learning distance Real move, short list to learn

44.1/ 100

1 Share of the healthcare assistant role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the nurse responsible for general care 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 healthcare assistant role treats 23 of its required skills as things a nurse responsible for general care already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • accept own accountability
  • adhere to organisational guidelines
  • advise on healthcare users' informed consent
  • apply organisational techniques
  • comply with legislation related to health care
  • comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice

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

Table 2 · What you already bring

Of the 27 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A healthcare assistant role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a nurse responsible for general care background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held geriatrics health and welfare
  • already held disability care health and welfare
  • already held educate on the prevention of illness communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held use foreign languages for health-related research communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held advise on healthcare users' informed consent communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held inform policy makers on health-related challenges communication, collaboration and creativity

All 27 carried skills, including the 23 the healthcare assistant role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 19 missing skills fall into 7 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 5 required, 1 supplementary
  • required, not held convey medical routine information required
  • required, not held work with nursing staff required
  • required, not held communicate with nursing staff required
  • required, not held support nurses required
  • required, not held work under supervision in care required
  • optional, not held communicate in foreign languages with health service providers optional
02 information skills 3 required
  • required, not held monitor basic patients signs required
  • required, not held identify abnormalities required
  • required, not held manage healthcare users' data required
03 assisting and caring 1 required, 3 supplementary
  • required, not held provide basic support to patients required
  • optional, not held assist in the administration of medication to elderly optional
  • optional, not held distribute meals to patients optional
  • optional, not held support individuals to adjust to physical disability optional
04 health and welfare 3 supplementary
  • optional, not held disability types optional
  • optional, not held older adults' needs optional
  • optional, not held sterilization techniques optional
05 handling and moving 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held perform cleaning duties optional
06 management skills 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held evaluate older adults' ability to take care of themselves optional

1 further area in the appendix

Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a healthcare 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 27 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held accept own accountability skill
  • already held adhere to organisational guidelines skill
  • already held advise on healthcare users' informed consent 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 empathise with the healthcare user skill
  • already held ensure safety of healthcare users skill
  • already held follow clinical guidelines skill
  • already held have computer literacy skill
  • already held inform policy makers on health-related challenges skill
  • already held interact with healthcare users 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 disability care knowledge
  • already held geriatrics knowledge
  • already held use foreign languages for health-related research skill
  • already held use foreign languages in patient care skill
The 1 learning area not shown above
Skill to acquire Tier
07 working with machinery and specialised equipment 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held use technical equipment for sterilisation optional
10 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held assist in the administration of medication to elderly optional
  • optional, not held distribute meals to patients optional
  • optional, not held support individuals to adjust to physical disability optional
  • optional, not held communicate in foreign languages with health service providers optional
  • optional, not held disability types optional
  • optional, not held evaluate older adults' ability to take care of themselves optional
  • optional, not held older adults' needs optional
  • optional, not held perform cleaning duties optional
  • optional, not held sterilization techniques optional
  • optional, not held use technical equipment for sterilisation optional
79 held skills the healthcare assistant role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role acute care knowledge
  • not needed by the target role adapt leadership styles in healthcare skill
  • not needed by the target role address problems critically skill
  • not needed by the target role adolescence medicine knowledge
  • not needed by the target role advise on healthy lifestyles skill
  • not needed by the target role advise patients on infectious diseases when travelling skill
  • not needed by the target role analyse quality of nurse care skill
  • not needed by the target role apply context specific clinical competences skill
  • not needed by the target role apply nursing care in long-term care skill
  • not needed by the target role apply person-centred care skill
  • not needed by the target role apply sustainability principles in health care skill
  • not needed by the target role assist in kidney transplant skill
  • not needed by the target role biological chemistry knowledge
  • not needed by the target role carry out nurse-led discharge skill
  • not needed by the target role citizen involvement in healthcare knowledge
  • not needed by the target role communicate in healthcare skill
  • not needed by the target role coordinate care skill
  • not needed by the target role delegate emergency care skill
  • not needed by the target role diagnose nursing care skill
  • not needed by the target role dietetics knowledge
  • not needed by the target role empower individuals, families and groups skill
  • not needed by the target role evaluate nursing care skill
  • not needed by the target role evidence-based nursing care knowledge
  • not needed by the target role first aid knowledge
  • not needed by the target role general medicine knowledge
  • not needed by the target role health care legislation knowledge
  • not needed by the target role human anatomy knowledge
  • not needed by the target role human physiology knowledge
  • not needed by the target role hygiene in a health care setting knowledge
  • not needed by the target role impact of social contexts on health knowledge
  • not needed by the target role implement fundamentals of nursing skill
  • not needed by the target role implement nursing care skill
  • not needed by the target role implement scientific decision making in healthcare skill
  • not needed by the target role infection control knowledge
  • not needed by the target role initiate life preserving measures skill
  • not needed by the target role innovation in nursing knowledge
  • not needed by the target role leadership in nursing knowledge
  • not needed by the target role manage information in health care skill
  • not needed by the target role manage multiple patients simultaneously skill
  • not needed by the target role manage personal professional development skill

39 further entries not listed here

3 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
  • optional, not held disability types optional
  • optional, not held older adults' needs optional
  • optional, not held sterilization techniques optional
Index

Other moves recorded from nurse responsible for general care

Full index of moves from nurse responsible for general care

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.