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Technicians and associate professionals · code 3258

Ambulance workers

Ambulance workers provide emergency health care to patients who are injured, sick, infirm or otherwise physically or mentally impaired prior to and during transport to medical facilities. Tasks include - (a) assessing the health status of persons involved in accidents, natural disasters and other emergency situations, and determining needs for immediate and specialized medical assistance; (b) performing medical procedures and administering drugs and other therapies according to protocol for emergency medical treatment, including resuscitating and defibrillating patients and operating life-support equipment; (c) monitoring changes in the health status of patients during transport to and from medical, rehabilitation and other health care facilities; (d) providing information and training to community groups and essential service workers in first aid for initial care of an illness or injury; (e) attending and/or patrolling large-scale public gatherings and other events where health emergencies are more likely to occur; (f) recording information on patients’ conditions and treatments provided in medical record-keeping systems. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Ambulance officer - Ambulance paramedic - Emergency medical technician - Emergency paramedic Some related occupations classified elsewhere: - Paramedical practitioner - 2240 - Ambulance driver - 8322 Note Occupations included in this unit group normally require formal training in emergency medical treatment, patient transport, ambulance principles and practice, or a related field. Ambulance drivers who do not provide health care are classified in Unit Group 8322: Car, Taxi and Van Drivers.

None of this job's tasks scored high enough to count. It ranks 161 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • emergency ambulance driver
  • paramedic in emergency responses

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

78.5
Holds up
against AI Not Exposed

AI could take on 21.5 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 21.5 = 78.5

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

71.6
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, matched to one US job

56.6
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 48.3 · hand skill 46.4 · cramped spaces 75 · averaged

Kind of hands-on work · hands-on 50+ · caring 4+ of 7 Hands-on, helping and caring for others

Physical work where helping and caring for people is a big part of the job. For care work, whether a machine could do the movements is only half the question. The other half is whether anyone wants one to. The US data counts helping workmates too, so a few trades end up here.

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

This number is probably too high

This score only looks at AI tools like chatbots. It doesn't look at robots at all — and this job rates 71.6 out of 100 for how hands-on it is, which is exactly where robots come in.

Have a look at the tasks below and judge for yourself. The ILO scored them low because a chatbot can't do them. Whether a machine with hands could is a different question, and we can't answer it yet.

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 55, while the average is 21.5. 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. 55

    Recording information on patients' conditions and treatments provided in medical records-keeping systems.

    Medium
  2. 23

    Monitoring changes in health status of patients during transport to and from medical, rehabilitation and other health care facilities

    Very Low
  3. 20

    Attending and/or patrolling large-scale public gatherings and other events where health emergencies are more likely to occur

    Very Low
  4. 13

    Providing information and training to community groups and essential service workers in first aid for initial care of an illness or injury

    Very Low
  5. 12

    Assessing health status of persons involved in accidents, natural disasters and other emergency situations, and determining needs for immediate and specialized medical assistance

    Very Low
  6. 6.3

    Performing medical procedures and administering drugs and other therapies according to protocol for emergency medical treatment, including resuscitating and defibrillating patients and operating life-support equipment

    Very Low

6 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.

One Australian job matches, but only partly: not everyone in it does this job. Treat the numbers as a rough guide.

AI helps you
55
AI does it for you
25

Helping wins by 30 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 4111

Compared with similar jobs

There are 82 jobs in the “Technicians and associate professionals” group, averaging 65.2. This one is above that.