Other health professionals n.e.c.
Job holders in this unit group perform a variety of other health-related professional occupations not elsewhere classified in minor group 225: Other health professionals. They may work autonomously or in teams with other health workers.
- Employees (UK)
- 91k
- Median annual pay
- £38,033
- Exposure score ?
- 1.0/10 Minimal 6.4/10 High strict reading, with tools is 6.4/10 with-tools reading, strict is 1.0/10
- Wage exposure
- £346m £2.22bn
Higher exposure than 54% of the 379 UK occupations we scored.
What this score means.
Most of this role's work is still hard for AI: physical presence, practised skill, judgement in context and direct care, the things that do not turn into text.
If you are in this role
Nothing here is under pressure today, but the frontier moves. Learn enough to direct AI at the paperwork around the job. People in hands-on roles who can do that become unusually useful inside their organisations.
Most of the routine work in this role can already be done by a capable model. The role does not disappear, but its shape changes, and one person can credibly cover the work of several.
If you are in this role
Stop spending time on what a model can do well. Your value is judgement, relationships and the parts of the work that need you in the room. Redesign the workflow around that before someone else does it for you.
Where the work usually starts.
These are the most important tasks a language model can already handle directly. In a typical engagement the first wins come from building workflows around them, so they stop eating the team's time.
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Document evaluations, treatment plans, case summaries, or progress or other reports related to individual clients or client groups.
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Observe and document client reactions, progress, or other outcomes related to music therapy.
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Participate in continuing education.
These are the most important tasks AI can already handle when paired with the right tools and context. The first wins usually come from building workflows around them. That is the difference between a model that could do the job and one that actually does it inside your business.
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Design or provide music therapy experiences to address client needs, such as using music for self-care, adjusting to life changes, improving cognitive functioning, raising self-esteem, communicating, or controlling impulses.
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Design music therapy experiences, using various musical elements to meet client's goals or objectives.
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Sing or play musical instruments, such as keyboard, guitar, or percussion instruments.
Every role has three or four places like these. Finding them takes an hour. Turning them into a workflow your team actually uses takes a few days.
Every task in the role.
Every O*NET task for this occupation, split by what AI can do unaided and what still needs a person. Importance is O*NET's 1 to 5 rating of how central each task is.
Tasks via O*NET "Music Therapists" (29-1129.02).
What AI can already do
4 of 30 tasks, unaided
Document evaluations, treatment plans, case summaries, or progress or other reports related to individual clients or client groups.
Observe and document client reactions, progress, or other outcomes related to music therapy.
Participate in continuing education.
Compose, arrange, or adapt music for music therapy treatments.
What still needs a person
26 of 30 tasks
Design or provide music therapy experiences to address client needs, such as using music for self-care, adjusting to life changes, improving cognitive functioning, raising self-esteem, communicating, or controlling impulses.
Design music therapy experiences, using various musical elements to meet client's goals or objectives.
Sing or play musical instruments, such as keyboard, guitar, or percussion instruments.
Communicate with clients to build rapport, acknowledge their progress, or reflect upon their reactions to musical experiences.
Customize treatment programs for specific areas of music therapy, such as intellectual or developmental disabilities, educational settings, geriatrics, medical settings, mental health, physical disabilities, or wellness.
Establish client goals or objectives for music therapy treatment, considering client needs, capabilities, interests, overall therapeutic program, coordination of treatment, or length of treatment.
Assess client functioning levels, strengths, and areas of need in terms of perceptual, sensory, affective, communicative, musical, physical, cognitive, social, spiritual, or other abilities.
Improvise instrumentally, vocally, or physically to meet client's therapeutic needs.
Gather diagnostic data from sources such as case documentation, observations of clients, or interviews with clients or family members.
Plan or structure music therapy sessions to achieve appropriate transitions, pacing, sequencing, energy level, or intensity in accordance with treatment plans.
Engage clients in music experiences to identify client responses to different styles of music, types of musical experiences, such as improvising or listening, or elements of music, such as tempo or harmony.
Communicate client assessment findings and recommendations in oral, written, audio, video, or other forms.
Integrate behavioral, developmental, improvisational, medical, or neurological approaches into music therapy treatments.
Confer with professionals on client's treatment team to develop, coordinate, or integrate treatment plans.
Select or adapt musical instruments, musical equipment, or non-musical materials, such as adaptive devices or visual aids, to meet treatment objectives.
Identify and respond to emergency physical or mental health situations.
Analyze or synthesize client data to draw conclusions or make recommendations for therapy.
Collaborate with others to design or implement interdisciplinary treatment programs.
Conduct information sharing sessions, such as in-service workshops for other professionals, potential client groups, or the general community.
Apply selected research findings to practice.
Analyze data to determine the effectiveness of specific treatments or therapy approaches.
Supervise staff, volunteers, practicum students, or interns engaged in music therapy activities.
Assess the risks and benefits of treatment termination for clients.
Adapt existing or develop new music therapy assessment instruments or procedures to meet an individual client's needs.
Apply current technology to music therapy practices.
Conduct, or assist in the conduct of, music therapy research.
Tasks via O*NET "Music Therapists" (29-1129.02).
What AI can already do
22 of 30 tasks, with tools
Design or provide music therapy experiences to address client needs, such as using music for self-care, adjusting to life changes, improving cognitive functioning, raising self-esteem, communicating, or controlling impulses.
Design music therapy experiences, using various musical elements to meet client's goals or objectives.
Sing or play musical instruments, such as keyboard, guitar, or percussion instruments.
Customize treatment programs for specific areas of music therapy, such as intellectual or developmental disabilities, educational settings, geriatrics, medical settings, mental health, physical disabilities, or wellness.
Establish client goals or objectives for music therapy treatment, considering client needs, capabilities, interests, overall therapeutic program, coordination of treatment, or length of treatment.
Document evaluations, treatment plans, case summaries, or progress or other reports related to individual clients or client groups.
Observe and document client reactions, progress, or other outcomes related to music therapy.
Gather diagnostic data from sources such as case documentation, observations of clients, or interviews with clients or family members.
Plan or structure music therapy sessions to achieve appropriate transitions, pacing, sequencing, energy level, or intensity in accordance with treatment plans.
Engage clients in music experiences to identify client responses to different styles of music, types of musical experiences, such as improvising or listening, or elements of music, such as tempo or harmony.
Participate in continuing education.
Communicate client assessment findings and recommendations in oral, written, audio, video, or other forms.
Confer with professionals on client's treatment team to develop, coordinate, or integrate treatment plans.
Select or adapt musical instruments, musical equipment, or non-musical materials, such as adaptive devices or visual aids, to meet treatment objectives.
Compose, arrange, or adapt music for music therapy treatments.
Analyze or synthesize client data to draw conclusions or make recommendations for therapy.
Collaborate with others to design or implement interdisciplinary treatment programs.
Apply selected research findings to practice.
Analyze data to determine the effectiveness of specific treatments or therapy approaches.
Adapt existing or develop new music therapy assessment instruments or procedures to meet an individual client's needs.
Apply current technology to music therapy practices.
Conduct, or assist in the conduct of, music therapy research.
What still needs a person
8 of 30 tasks
Communicate with clients to build rapport, acknowledge their progress, or reflect upon their reactions to musical experiences.
Assess client functioning levels, strengths, and areas of need in terms of perceptual, sensory, affective, communicative, musical, physical, cognitive, social, spiritual, or other abilities.
Improvise instrumentally, vocally, or physically to meet client's therapeutic needs.
Integrate behavioral, developmental, improvisational, medical, or neurological approaches into music therapy treatments.
Identify and respond to emergency physical or mental health situations.
Conduct information sharing sessions, such as in-service workshops for other professionals, potential client groups, or the general community.
Supervise staff, volunteers, practicum students, or interns engaged in music therapy activities.
Assess the risks and benefits of treatment termination for clients.
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This role's score comes from Eloundou et al's 2023 task labels, weighted by O*NET importance within each O*NET-SOC code, then bridged to UK SOC 2020 through ISCO-08 (the ONS coding index) and US SOC 2010 (the BLS crosswalk). Employment and median pay come from ONS ASHE Table 14.7a, 2025 provisional, which covers employees only.
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