5.5 KiB
5.5 KiB
Competences — specialist chiropractor
Source: ESCO v1.2.1 occupation-skill relations (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/be235deb-6181-43ca-8127-7010a689643a).
Essential
- accept own accountability (skill/competence)
- adhere to health well-being and safety (skill/competence)
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent (skill/competence)
- advocate health (skill/competence)
- apply clinical chiropractic competencies in sport (skill/competence)
- apply context specific clinical competences (skill/competence)
- apply organisational techniques (skill/competence)
- biomechanics (knowledge)
- collect healthcare user's general data (skill/competence)
- communicate in healthcare (skill/competence)
- comply with legislation related to health care (skill/competence)
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice (skill/competence)
- conduct chiropractic examination (skill/competence)
- conduct health related research (skill/competence)
- contribute to continuity of health care (skill/competence)
- contribute to the rehabilitation process (skill/competence)
- create solutions to problems (skill/competence)
- deal with emergency care situations (skill/competence)
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship (skill/competence)
- develop plans related to client discharge (skill/competence)
- develop plans related to the transfer of care (skill/competence)
- develop therapeutic relationships (skill/competence)
- educate on the prevention of illness (skill/competence)
- empathise with the healthcare user (skill/competence)
- employ cognitive behaviour treatment techniques (skill/competence)
- ensure safety of healthcare users (skill/competence)
- first aid (knowledge)
- follow clinical guidelines (skill/competence)
- formulate a treatment plan (skill/competence)
- general medicine (knowledge)
- geriatrics (knowledge)
- human anatomy (knowledge)
- human physiology (knowledge)
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges (skill/competence)
- interact with healthcare users (skill/competence)
- interpret medical results (skill/competence)
- manage chiropractic staff (skill/competence)
- manage clinical risk (skill/competence)
- manage healthcare staff (knowledge)
- manage healthcare users' data (skill/competence)
- measure effectiveness of the service provided (skill/competence)
- medical informatics (knowledge)
- microbiology-bacteriology (knowledge)
- neuroanatomy (knowledge)
- neurology (knowledge)
- obstetrics and gynaecology (knowledge)
- orthopaedics (knowledge)
- paediatrics (knowledge)
- pharmacology (knowledge)
- prescribe healthcare products (skill/competence)
- promote health and safety policies in health services (skill/competence)
- promote inclusion (skill/competence)
- provide chiropractic diagnosis (skill/competence)
- provide chiropractic maternal healthcare (skill/competence)
- provide chiropractic paediatric healthcare (skill/competence)
- provide clinical chiropractic neurology (skill/competence)
- provide health education (skill/competence)
- provide information on chiropractic treatment outcomes (skill/competence)
- provide learning support in healthcare (skill/competence)
- provide treatment strategies for challenges to human health (skill/competence)
- psychology (knowledge)
- record healthcare users' progress related to treatment (skill/competence)
- refer healthcare users (skill/competence)
- rehabilitation (knowledge)
- respond to changing situations in health care (skill/competence)
- supervise chiropractic students (skill/competence)
- triage clients (skill/competence)
- use different communication channels (skill/competence)
- use e-health and mobile health technologies (skill/competence)
- work in a multicultural environment in health care (skill/competence)
- work in multidisciplinary health teams (skill/competence)
Optional
- contribute to quality physiotherapy services (skill/competence)
- develop chiropractic services (skill/competence)
- engage in chiropractic research (skill/competence)
- manage personal professional development (skill/competence)
- manage the neuropsychiatric sequelae of stroke (skill/competence)
- therapeutic massage (knowledge)
- use foreign languages for health-related research (skill/competence)
- use foreign languages in patient care (skill/competence)
Market evidence (job-ad analysis, 24 ads, as of 2026-07-19)
Share of analyzed job ads mentioning the item (threshold ≥ 20 %). Source: JSearch/Adzuna APIs.
Hard skills
- treatment planning — 46 %
- patient evaluation — 42 %
- x-ray analysis — 38 %
- medical history review — 33 %
- physical examination — 25 %
- diagnosis — 25 %
- chiropractic diagnosis — 21 %
- chiropractic adjustment — 21 %
- chiropractic care — 17 %
- chiropractic manual therapy — 17 %
- spinal adjustment — 17 %
- patient assessment — 17 %
Responsibilities
- patient education — 62 %
- documentation — 25 %
- case history maintenance — 21 %
- patient consultation — 21 %
- patient exams — 21 %
- patient care — 17 %
- treatment plan formulation — 17 %
- patient evaluation — 17 %
- assistant supervision — 17 %