occupational therapy assistanttophysiotherapy assistant
A occupational therapy assistant already meets 29% of what the physiotherapy assistant role asks for. The move turns on 29 required skills not yet in the profile.
29%
77.9/ 100
1 Share of the physiotherapy assistant role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the occupational therapy assistant 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 physiotherapy assistant role treats 12 of its required skills as things a occupational therapy assistant already does. These are the ones it depends on most.
- communicate in healthcare
- deal with emergency care situations
- develop therapeutic relationships
- empathise with the healthcare user
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- follow clinical guidelines
What stands in the way is 29 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 12 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A physiotherapy assistant role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a occupational therapy assistant background worth leading with.
- already held provide stroke rehabilitation services assisting and caring
- already held develop therapeutic relationships communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held record healthcare users' progress related to treatment information skills
- already held deal with emergency care situations assisting and caring
- already held interact with healthcare users communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held provide health education communication, collaboration and creativity
All 12 carried skills, including the 12 the physiotherapy assistant role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 29 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 assist physiotherapists required
- required, not held support discharge from physiotherapy required
- required, not held accept own accountability required
- required, not held advise on healthcare users' informed consent required
- required, not held advocate health required
- required, not held promote health and safety policies in health services required
- required, not held develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship required
- required, not held educate on the prevention of illness required
- required, not held inform policy makers on health-related challenges required
- required, not held use different communication channels required
- required, not held work in a multicultural environment in health care required
- required, not held adhere to health well-being and safety required
- required, not held comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice required
- required, not held contribute to continuity of health care required
- required, not held provide information on the effects of physiotherapy required
- required, not held adhere to organisational guidelines required
- required, not held comply with legislation related to health care required
- required, not held contribute to the rehabilitation process required
- required, not held promote inclusion required
- required, not held contribute to quality physiotherapy services required
- required, not held develop plans related to client discharge required
- required, not held develop plans related to the transfer of care required
- required, not held provide learning support in healthcare required
- required, not held apply organisational techniques required
- required, not held respond to changing situations in health care required
- required, not held collect healthcare user data under supervision required
- required, not held manage healthcare users' data required
- required, not held use e-health and mobile health technologies required
- required, not held maintain physiotherapy equipment required
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a physiotherapy assistant role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 assist physiotherapists skill · occupation specific
- 02 support discharge from physiotherapy skill · occupation specific
- 03 accept own accountability 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 12 skills that carry over
- already held communicate in healthcare skill
- already held deal with emergency care situations skill
- already held develop therapeutic relationships 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 interact with healthcare users skill
- already held listen actively skill
- already held provide health education skill
- already held provide stroke rehabilitation services skill
- already held record healthcare users' progress related to treatment skill
- already held work in multidisciplinary health teams skill
0 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
34 held skills the physiotherapy assistant role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role advise healthcare users on occupational health skill
- not needed by the target role apply techniques of occupational therapy skill
- not needed by the target role assist healthcare users achieve autonomy skill
- not needed by the target role assist in performing physical exercises skill
- not needed by the target role community-based rehabilitation knowledge
- not needed by the target role create individual treatment programmes skill
- not needed by the target role develop a rehabilitation programme skill
- not needed by the target role ergonomics knowledge
- not needed by the target role exercise patience skill
- not needed by the target role first aid knowledge
- not needed by the target role general medicine knowledge
- not needed by the target role geriatrics 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 human physiology knowledge
- not needed by the target role hygiene in a health care setting knowledge
- not needed by the target role instruct on the use of special equipment for daily activities skill
- not needed by the target role kinesiology knowledge
- not needed by the target role mechanotherapy knowledge
- not needed by the target role monitor patients' progress related to treatment skill
- not needed by the target role movement techniques knowledge
- not needed by the target role neurology knowledge
- not needed by the target role occupational health knowledge
- not needed by the target role occupational physiology knowledge
- not needed by the target role occupational science knowledge
- not needed by the target role occupational therapy theories knowledge
- not needed by the target role orthopaedics knowledge
- not needed by the target role perform occupation analyses skill
- not needed by the target role perform patient activity analyses skill
- not needed by the target role physical medicine knowledge
- not needed by the target role rehabilitation knowledge
- not needed by the target role remediate healthcare user's occupational performance skill
- not needed by the target role supervision of persons knowledge
- not needed by the target role vocational rehabilitation knowledge
Other moves recorded from occupational therapy assistant
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.