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Professionals · code 2269

Health professionals not elsewhere classified

This unit group covers health professionals not classified elsewhere in Sub-major Group 22: Health Professionals. For instance, the group includes occupations such as podiatrist, occupational therapist, recreational therapist, chiropractor, osteopath and other professionals providing diagnostic, preventive, curative and rehabilitative health services. In such cases tasks would include - (a) interviewing patients and conducting diagnostic tests to determine their health status, functional limitations, and the nature of physical or mental disorders, illnesses or other health problems; (b) developing and implementing treatment plans for injuries, illnesses and other physical and mental impairments; (c) evaluating and documenting patients’ progress through treatment plans, and referring patients and families to medical doctors or other health care providers for specialized, rehabilitative or other care services as needed; (d) administering therapeutic care and treatment to patients, including through application of manual and physical chiropractic and osteopathic techniques; (e) recommending environmental adaptations in the home, leisure, work and school environments on an individual or group basis to enable individuals with functional limitations to perform their daily activities and occupations; (f) planning and implementing therapeutic programmes on an individual and group basis for improving and maintaining physical, cognitive, emotional and social functioning, including through the use of arts and crafts, dance and movement, music and other recreational activities; (g) identifying and prescribing treatments for conditions affecting the foot, ankle and related structures of the leg due to illness, disease or other physical impairment, and prescribing corrective footwear and advising on foot care to manage foot ailments; (h) performing minor surgical procedures such as on the foot and ankles. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Arts therapist - Chiropractor - Dance and movement therapist - Occupational therapist - Osteopath - Podiatrist - Recreational therapist Note Although in some jurisdictions chiropractic and osteopathy are considered to have the attributes of medical specializations, practitioners in these disciplines should always be classified here.

None of this job's tasks scored high enough to count. It ranks 135 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • podiatry assistant
  • occupational therapy assistant
  • chiropractor
  • radiographer
  • occupational therapist
  • recreational therapist
  • animal osteopath
  • kinesiologist
  • podiatrist
  • specialist chiropractor

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

80.5
Holds up
against AI
Not Exposed

AI could take on 19.5 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 19.5 = 80.5

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

36.6
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, averaged across 11 US jobs , so treat it as rough

26.7
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 36.4 · hand skill 30.6 · cramped spaces 13.2 · 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 36.6 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 29.5, while the average is 19.5. 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. 29.5

    Evaluating and documenting patients' progress through treatment plans, and referring patients and families to medical doctors or other health care providers for specialized, rehabilitative or other care services as needed

    Low
  2. 28

    Recommending environmental adaptations in the home, leisure, work and school environments on an individual or group basis to enable individuals with functional limitations to perform their daily activities and occupations

    Low
  3. 25.5

    Planning and implementing therapeutic programmes on an individual and group basis for improving and maintaining physical, cognitive, emotional and social functioning, including through the use of arts and crafts, dance and movement, music and other recreational activities

    Low
  4. 20

    Developing and implementing treatment plans for injuries, illnesses and other physical and mental impairments

    Very Low
  5. 16.5

    Interviewing patients and conducting diagnostic tests to determine their health status, functional limitations, and the nature of physical or mental disorders, illnesses or other health problems

    Very Low
  6. 16.5

    Identifying and prescribing treatments for conditions affecting the foot, ankle and related structures of the leg due to illness, disease or other physical impairment, and prescribing corrective footwear and advising on foot care to manage foot ailments

    Very Low
  7. 10.8

    Administering therapeutic care and treatment to patients, including through application of manual and physical chiropractic and osteopathic techniques

    Very Low
  8. 9.3

    Performing minor surgical procedures such as on the foot and ankles.

    Very Low

8 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.

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

AI helps you
66.7
AI does it for you
30.3

Helping wins by 36.4 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 2346, 2349, 2519, 2521, 2522, 2524, 2526

Compared with similar jobs

There are 92 jobs in the “Professionals” group, averaging 61.1. This one is above that.