Paramedical Jobs

There are many different jobs in the paramedical sector, allowing to mix the sense of touch and technicality. Discover all the paramedical jobs.
 

The population aging and the rise of a welfare society lead a growing need for paramedical professionals. Requested profiles are varied in the image of those jobs which are exerted  in hospital, in office or at home.
 

Accompany, treat, prepare, retrain patients: this looks like the daily of million paramedical professionals. Among them, one counts twenty different jobs, but all allow to mix the sense of touch and technicality. And if many positions are held by women, there is place for everyone!
 

Mostly employees of the public, private or voluntary sector, paramedical professionals work in hospitals and clinics, health centers, nursing homes, medical offices, medical imaging centers, clinical laboratories and sometimes at home. These jobs can also be exercised in private.
 

Growing recruitment needs in the health sector

With the population aging and the importance of our society to well-being, the paramedical personnel needs are growing. Recruitment increases accordingly and this especially since the retirements can accelerate in the coming years. Some institutions do not also hesitate to recruit students even before the end of their training, particularly among nurses...
 

Development opportunities in paramedical jobs

Once in office, it is possible to change or to specialize through internal competition. Thus, the carer can become a nurse. The nurse can develop into nurse anesthetist, operating room or nursing manager. In addition, to cope with a shortage of physicians, paramedical professionals are acquiring more and more responsibility. Opticians can renew prescriptions and nurses have the right to make a vaccine against influenza without a prescription. Home services are also developing to reduce health costs.
 

List of paramedical jobs

- Care: caregiver, nurse, dental assistant, child care assistant, etiopath, hydrotherapist, chiropodist.
 

- Rehabilitation: physiotherapist, speech therapist, psychomotor therapist, occupational therapist, optometrist, osteopath, chiropractor.
 

- The equipment: audiologist, optician, editor in optics and eyewear, dental technician, orthopedic-orthotist, prosthetist, pedorthist.
 

- Medical-technical assistance: paramedic, pharmacy technician, medical physicist in radiotherapy, medical-technician in analysis.
 

- Diet and health: dietitian, sports nutritionist, dietitian, nutritionist engineer.