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Managers · code 1342

Health services managers

Health services managers plan, direct, coordinate and evaluate the provision of clinical and community health care services in hospitals, clinics, public health agencies and similar organizations. Tasks include - (a) providing overall direction and management for the service, facility, organization or centre; (b) directing, supervising and evaluating the work activities of medical, nursing, technical, clerical, service, maintenance and other personnel; (c) establishing objectives and evaluative or operational criteria for units they manage; (d) directing or conducting recruitment, hiring and training of personnel; (e) developing, implementing and monitoring procedures, policies and performance standards for medical, nursing, technical and administrative staff; (f) monitoring the use of diagnostic services, inpatient beds, facilities and staff to ensure effective use of resources, and assess the need for additional staff, equipment and services; (g) controlling administrative operations such as budget planning, report preparation,sand expenditure on supplies, equipment and services; (h) liaising with other health and welfare service providers, boards and funding bodies to coordinate the provision of services; (i) advising government bodies about measures to improve health and welfare services and facilities; (j) representing the organization in negotiations, and at conventions, seminars, public hearings and forums. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Chief public health officer - Clinical director - Community health care coordinator - Director of nursing - Health facility administrator - Hospital matron - Medical administrator Some related occupations classified elsewhere: - Aged care services manager - 1343

A few tasks are affected, but the heart of the job isn't. It ranks 285 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • healthcare institution manager
  • clinical informatics manager

Job titles from the EU's ESCO list. Search for any of them on the jobs page and you'll end up here.

63.7
Holds up
against AI Minimal Exposure

AI could take on 36.3 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 36.3 = 63.7

That's the whole sum, and you can check it against the ILO's study.

26.6
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, matched to one US job

6.6
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 7.1 · hand skill 7.1 · cramped spaces 5.5 · averaged

Kind of hands-on work · hands-on under 50 Less than half hands-on

Less than half of this job is hands-on. Robots still matter, but for a smaller part of the work, so we don't sort it any further.

estimated O*NET 31.0 BLS occupational crosswalk chain ISCO-08 to 2010 SOC (Aug 2012, rev. Jun 2015); 2010 to 2018 SOC (Nov 2017); O*NET-SOC 2019 taxonomy data 0.7-work-setting measures chosen by Frey & Osborne (2017) · the grouping is a sorting, not a measurement

What this number leaves out This job rates 26.6 out of 100 for how hands-on it is. The score above only looks at AI tools, not robots, but for work this far from the physical that matters less.

The tasks behind the score

The score is the average of these. A job is really a bundle of tasks, and an average can hide how uneven that bundle is.

The task AI could do most of scores 48.5, while the average is 36.3. A big gap means some of this job is wide open to AI and some of it barely at all. That's quite different from a job where everything sits somewhere in the middle, even when the averages match.

  1. 48.5

    Controlling administrative operations such as budget planning, report preparation and expenditure on supplies, equipment and services

    Low
  2. 41.5

    Liaising with other health and welfare service providers, boards and funding bodies to coordinate the provision of services

    Low
  3. 38.5

    Establishing objectives and evaluative or operational criteria for units they manage

    Low
  4. 35.5

    Providing overall direction and management for the service, facility, organization or centre

    Low
  5. 35

    Developing, implementing and monitoring procedures, policies and performance standards for medical, nursing, technical and administrative staff

    Low
  6. 35

    Advising government bodies about measures to improve health and welfare services and facilities

    Low
  7. 34

    Directing, supervising and evaluating the work activities of medical, nursing, technical, clerical, service, maintenance, and other personnel

    Low
  8. 34

    Monitoring the use of diagnostic services, inpatient beds, facilities and staff to ensure effective use of resources, and assess the need for additional staff, equipment, and services

    Low
  9. 32

    Directing or conducting recruitment, hiring and training of personnel

    Low
  10. 29

    Representing the organization in negotiations, and at conventions, seminars, public hearings and forums.

    Low

10 tasks · the High to Very Low labels are the ILO's

from the source Working Paper 140, Generative AI and Jobs 2025 index data 0.7-work-setting

Helped, or replaced?

The score above can't tell a tool that makes you faster from one that does the task instead of you. Jobs and Skills Australia looked at those two things separately, and this is their result, matched to this job.

2 Australian jobs match this one, and we've simply averaged them. Treat the numbers as a rough guide.

AI helps you
69.5
AI does it for you
37

Helping wins by 32.5 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 1342, 5122

Compared with similar jobs

There are 30 jobs in the “Managers” group, averaging 63.9. This one is below that.