Health Therapy Professionals

Health Therapy Professionals assess, diagnose and treat illnesses and disabilities, and provide therapeutic services such as chiropractic, osteopathy, complementary health, dentistry, occupational therapy, physical therapy, podiatry, speech pathology and audiology. Dietitians, Medical Imaging Professionals, Occupational and Environmental Health Professionals, Optometrists and Orthoptists, Pharmacists, Health Promotion Officers, and Orthotists or Prosthetists are excluded from this minor group.

**Indicative skill level:**

#### In Australia and New Zealand:

Occupations in this minor group have a level of skill commensurate with a bachelor degree or higher qualification (ANZSCO Skill Level 1).

**Tasks include:**

- questioning, examining, observing and testing patients to identify and determine nature of disease, disorder, illness or problem - designing, developing and implementing treatment plans to address patients' problems - providing exercise, dietary, lifestyle and hygiene guidelines and advice, adaptive equipment and correctional aids - recording patients' medical histories such as previous injuries, surgeries, general health and lifestyle - evaluating and documenting patients' treatment response and progress