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Technicians and associate professionals · code 3259

Health associate professionals not elsewhere classified

This unit group covers health associate professionals not classified elsewhere in Sub-major Group 32: Health Associate Professionals. For instance, the group includes occupations such as HIV counsellor, family planning counsellor and other health associate professionals. In such cases tasks would include - (a) interviewing and examining patients to obtain information on their health status and the nature and extent of injury, illness or other physical or mental health condition; (b) providing information and counselling to patients and families about certain health conditions, prevention and treatment options, treatment adherence, and personal behaviours that can affect health outcomes; (c) administering therapeutic care and treatment to patients; (d ) performing certain basic clinical procedures such as administration of HIV antibody tests or insertion of intrauterine devices; (e) dispensing and advising on dietary supplements, antiretroviral and prophylaxis medications, and other health care products; (f) monitoring patients’ progress through treatment plans, and identifying signs and symptoms requiring referral to a medical doctor or other health professional; (g) recording information on patients’ health status and responses to treatment in medical record-keeping systems; (h) sharing information with other health care providers when required to ensure continuing and comprehensive care. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Anaesthesia technician - Family planning counsellor - HIV counsellor - Respiratory therapy technician Note Occupations included in this unit group normally require formal training in health service provision.

A few tasks are affected, but the heart of the job isn't. It ranks 245 of 427 for holding up against AI.

Also known as

  • respiratory therapy technician
  • assistant clinical psychologist
  • osteopath
  • dietetic technician
  • anaesthetic technician

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

69.5
Holds up
against AI Minimal Exposure

AI could take on 30.5 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 30.5 = 69.5

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

50.8
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, averaged across 14 US jobs , so treat it as rough

36
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 41.2 · hand skill 37.2 · cramped spaces 29.6 · 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

What this number leaves out This job rates 50.8 out of 100 for how hands-on it is. The score above only looks at AI tools, not robots, and for work like this robots are the bigger question.

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 60, while the average is 30.5. 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. 60

    Recording information on patients' health status and responses to treatment in medical records-keeping systems

    Medium
  2. 34.8

    Dispensing and advising on dietary supplements, antiretroviral and prophylaxis medications, and other healthcare products

    Low
  3. 33

    Providing information and counselling to patients and families about certain health conditions, prevention and treatment options, treatment adherence, and personal behaviours that can affect health outcomes

    Low
  4. 27.3

    Sharing information with other health care providers when required to ensure continuing and comprehensive care.

    Low
  5. 24.8

    Monitoring patients' progress through treatment plans, and identifying signs and symptoms requiring referral to a medical doctor or other health professional

    Very Low
  6. 22

    Interviewing and examining patients to obtain information on their health status and the nature and extent of injury, illness or other physical or mental health condition

    Very Low
  7. 11.6

    Administering therapeutic care and treatment to patients; (d ) performing certain basic clinical procedures, such as administration of HIV antibody tests or insertion of intrauterine devices

    Very Low

7 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.

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

AI helps you
65.5
AI does it for you
30.3

Helping wins by 35.2 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 2522, 3112, 4113, 4233

Compared with similar jobs

There are 82 jobs in the “Technicians and associate professionals” group, averaging 65.3. This one is above that.