healthcare assistant

Healthcare assistants work in teams of nurses within the occupational fields of nursing, social care, clinical care and care of people of all age-groups. Healthcare assistants assist in the promotion and restoration of patients' health by providing physical and psychological support to patients, friends and families.

The most in-demand skills for this role include respond to changing situations in health care, educate on the prevention of illness, inform policy makers on health-related challenges, contribute to continuity of health care, use e-health and mobile health technologies, empathise with the healthcare user. These are the skills O*NET identifies as most important for competent performance.

Our AI-durability model gives healthcare assistant a score of 0.50 on a 0-1 scale (higher = more exposure). That places it at moderate AI exposure — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. Learning to work with AI tools rather than against them is the path forward.