Clinician
Work as the primary carer to help patients manage their illness or medical condition.
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- What's it like to be a Clinician?
- How to become a Clinician
- Latest Clinician jobs
- Top skills and experience for Clinicians
- Clinician role reviews
What's it like to be a Clinician?
A Clinician may be a general practitioner, therapist, nurse, pharmacist or other type of healthcare professional. The main function of the Clinician is to help alleviate the effects of a sick person’s illness on both themselves and their family.
Tasks and duties
- Gathering diagnostic information on a patient’s condition.
- Recommending appropriate treatments to a patient such as writing prescriptions and establishing prevention strategies.
- Promoting healthcare measures.
- Managing a patient’s disease and its impacts.
- Helping patients to determine and manage the risks that are associated with their condition.
How to become a Clinician
The steps towards becoming a Clinician vary according to the type of Clinician you choose to become. Becoming a General Practitioner will vary to becoming a Registered Nurse or Physiotherapist.
- Complete a bachelor degree in a relevant field such as a medicine, nursing or physiotherapy.
- Sometimes a Clinician is required to hold a master's degree for example, in counselling or a related field. A master's program typically covers advanced topics, such as assessment techniques. These courses will prepare a student for clinical experience in their chosen field.
- Complete the required number of hours of supervised clinical experience, or an internship.
- Obtain a license to practice in your chosen field.
- Undertake continuing education in order to maintain licensure.
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Skills and experience employers are looking for
Having the right skills and experience can make you an in-demand applicant. Clinician employers on SEEK are looking for job seekers with expertise in the following areas. Mental Health
Social Work
Psychology
Occupational Therapy
AHPRA Registration
Counselling
Clinical Supervision
Case Management
Mental Health Care
Clinical Practice
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Latest Clinician reviews
Nov 2023
It is a satisfying career and profession that does alot and requires its share of recognition
Reviewer's QualificationBachelor of Medical Studies
Experience10+ years
Organisation sizeLarge (200+ employees)
SpecialisationHealthcare & Medical
The good thingsIt is a humbling profession and career which plays a big part in the health care industry managing majority of the cases at the primary health care level (including some specialties e.g. anesthesia, o...
The challengesI enjoy the most of it, but it's unfortunate people do not understand it well and are never sure where the profession role falls and can mistake us for doctors or nurses a role of which we are differe...
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Aug 2019
If you’re passion is helping people then this job is for you
Reviewer's QualificationGraduate Diploma of Counselling (Addictions, Family Therapy, Loss and Grief)
Experience10+ years
Organisation sizeLarge (200+ employees)
SpecialisationTrauma Therapy
The good thingsWha I love about the role is the interactions with people. As a an AOD Clinician I work as part of a team who are at various levels of experience and expertise. I’m always learning new things and help...
The challengesKeeping in mind that for different people different things are challenging, for me the most challenging part is the admin. Since I started working in the industry in late 2008 the admin requirements h...
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