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Other Health Professionals

Job holders in this unit group perform a variety of other health-related professional occupations.

Wages

New workers
AVERAGE
Experienced
£ 16,079
£ 31,605
£ 69,002

New workers start around £16,079. Normal pay is £31,605 per year. Highly experienced workers can earn up to £69,002.

Available jobs

In the past year there were 56,418 vacancies for this type of job

2.87%

Projected job growth over the next 8 years

Related courses

People work towards these careers by taking these courses at college and uni.

What they do most days?

  • Monitors patient.

  • Supervises physiotherapy assistants.

  • Offers advice and education on how to avoid injury and promote patient.

  • Explains treatment to and instructs patient in posture and other exercises and adapts treatment as necessary.

  • Plans and undertakes therapy to improve circulation, restore joint mobility, strengthen muscles and reduce pain.

  • Writes up patients.

  • Examines medical reports and assesses patient to determine the condition of muscles, nerves or joints in need of treatment.

  • Provides prosthetic devices to patients and advises on rehabilitation.

  • Carries out a range of oral/dental treatments.

  • Diagnoses and treats patients with a variety of hearing-related problems.

  • Conducts medical education relevant to specialism and provides team leadership and supervision.

  • Operate heart-lung machines during surgical procedures.

  • Provides high level support within surgical teams before, during and after surgery.

  • Provides expert technical and technological support in the delivery of critical care.

Hard Skills

Hard skills are specific, learnable, measurable, often industry or occupation-specific abilities related to a position.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Auditing

  • Audiology

  • Nursing

  • Dietetics

  • Gastroenterology

  • Clinical Governance

  • Surgery

  • Midwifery

  • Mental Health

  • Fundraising

Soft Skills

Soft skills can be self-taught and usually do not necessitate a certain completed level of education.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Communications

  • Management

  • Planning

  • Teaching

  • Leadership

  • Research

  • Customer Service

  • Innovation

  • Interpersonal Communications

  • Enthusiasm

How do I get a job like this?

People in these types of job started their career paths after studying courses like the ones below.

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