From physiotherapy assistant to specialist chiropractor
32 of the 71 essential skills of a specialist chiropractor are already essential for a physiotherapy assistant — about 45% of the job, before you learn anything new.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 32
- skills carry over
- 39
- would be new
- 45%
- of the target job covered
- 71
- essential skills of a specialist chiropractor
What a specialist chiropractor does
Specialist chiropractors have an advanced knowledge and understanding in a specific chiropractic area, acquiring complex decision making skills and clinical competency within the scope of the chiropractic profession. Specialist chiropractors may have undertaken an advanced course of studies to acquire the necessary skills and competency and qualification. Specialist chiropractors may be found in different specific fields such as education, functional neurology, orthopaedics, paediatrics, research, radiology, sport.
What carries over
32 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- accept own accountability
- adhere to health well-being and safety
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- advocate health
- apply organisational techniques
- communicate in healthcare
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- contribute to continuity of health care
- contribute to the rehabilitation process
- deal with emergency care situations
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- develop plans related to client discharge
- develop plans related to the transfer of care
- develop therapeutic relationships
- educate on the prevention of illness
- empathise with the healthcare user
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- follow clinical guidelines
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- interact with healthcare users
- manage healthcare users' data
- promote health and safety policies in health services
- promote inclusion
- provide health education
- provide learning support in healthcare
- record healthcare users' progress related to treatment
- respond to changing situations in health care
- use different communication channels
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
What would be new
39 skillsEssential for a specialist chiropractor and not for a physiotherapy assistant. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- apply clinical chiropractic competencies in sport
- apply context specific clinical competences
- biomechanics
- collect healthcare user's general data
- conduct chiropractic examination
- conduct health related research
- create solutions to problems
- employ cognitive behaviour treatment techniques
- first aid
- formulate a treatment plan
- general medicine
- geriatrics
- human anatomy
- human physiology
- interpret medical results
- manage chiropractic staff
- manage clinical risk
- manage healthcare staff
- measure effectiveness of the service provided
- medical informatics
- microbiology-bacteriology
- neuroanatomy
- neurology
- obstetrics and gynaecology
- orthopaedics
- paediatrics
- pharmacology
- prescribe healthcare products
- provide chiropractic diagnosis
- provide chiropractic maternal healthcare
- provide chiropractic paediatric healthcare
- provide clinical chiropractic neurology
- provide information on chiropractic treatment outcomes
- provide treatment strategies for challenges to human health
- psychology
- refer healthcare users
- rehabilitation
- supervise chiropractic students
- triage clients
Other moves from physiotherapy assistant
2 roles- physiotherapist38 skills in common
- advanced physiotherapist37 skills in common
← physiotherapy assistantspecialist chiropractor →The other way round
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