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Intensive Care Specialists

ANZSCO ID 253317

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Overview

Snapshot

Employed
650
Future Growth
N/A
Weekly Earnings
N/A
Full-Time Share
93%
Female Share
34%
Average age
38
About this data

Summary

Intensive Care Specialists investigate, diagnose and treat patients in need of intensive and critical care.

Tasks

  • Examines patients to determine the nature and extent of problems after referral from general medical practitioners and other medical specialists, and undertakes laboratory tests and diagnostic procedures.

  • Analyses test results and other medical information to make diagnoses.

  • Prescribes and administers drugs, as well as remedial and therapeutic treatment and procedures.

  • Records medical information and data.

  • Reports specified contagious and notifiable diseases to government health and immigration authorities.

  • May admit or refer patients to hospitals.

  • May consult other medical specialists.

Characteristics

Outlook

Employment Outlook

JSA produces employment projections to show where likely future job opportunities may be. Employment projections data are only produced for occupations at the broad four digit Australian and New Zealand Standard Classification of Occupations (ANZSCO) level. While data are not available for this occupation, projections data are available for the parent occupation, Specialist Physicians, under the outlook section.

Earnings and hours

Working arrangements

  • Around 93% of people employed as Intensive Care Specialists work full-time hours, in all their jobs combined. This is 27 percentage points above the all jobs average (66%).

    Full-time workers work an average of 53 hours per week in their main job. This is 9 hours more than the all jobs average (44 hours per week).

    Sources:Full-time share and full-time hours: ABS, 2016 Census, customised report. Compared to the all jobs average.

Industries

Main industries

1
Health Care and Social Assistance
97.9%
2
Public Administration and Safety
1.1%

Regions

Employment across Australia

NSW

30.3% All occupations: 31.6%

VIC

23.7% All occupations: 25.6%

QLD

22.2% All occupations: 20.0%

SA

10.4% All occupations: 7.0%

WA

7.3% All occupations: 10.8%

TAS

2.1% All occupations: 2.0%

NT

1.7% All occupations: 1.0%

ACT

2.3% All occupations: 1.9%

Employment by State and Territory (% Share)

State Intensive Care Specialists All Jobs Average
NSW 30.3 31.6
VIC 23.7 25.6
QLD 22.2 20.0
SA 10.4 7.0
WA 7.3 10.8
TAS 2.1 2.0
NT 1.7 1.0
ACT 2.3 1.9


  • Around 75% of Intensive Care Specialists live in capital cities, compared with the all jobs average of 62%.

    South Australia has a large share of employment relative to its population size.

    The region with the largest share of workers is Melbourne - Inner.

    Source: Based on ABS Census 2016, Customised Report. Share of workers across Australian states, territories and regions, in this job compared to the all jobs average.

Worker profile

Age and gender

Age In Years
38
All Jobs Average is 40
Female Share
34%
All Jobs Average is 48%

  • The median age of Intensive Care Specialists is 38 years. This is similar to the all jobs average of 40 years.

    A large share of workers are aged 35 to 44 years.

    Females make up 34% of the workforce. This is 14 percentage points below the all jobs average of 48%.

    Source: Based on ABS Census 2016, Customised Report. Age profile and gender share compared to the all jobs average.

Age Profile (% Share)

Source: Based on ABS Census 2016, Customised Report. Age profile of workers in this job compared to the all jobs average.
Age Bracket Intensive Care Specialists All Jobs Average
15-19 0.0 5.0
20-24 0.0 9.3
25-34 35.7 22.9
35-44 36.3 22.0
45-54 17.4 21.6
55-59 5.3 9.0
60-64 3.5 6.0
65 and Over 1.8 4.2
Median Age 38 40

Source: Based on ABS Census 2016, Customised Report. Age profile of workers in this job compared to the all jobs average.

Employment Pathways

Education, training and experience

Medical practitioners need to undertake a fellowship with the Royal Australasian College of Physicians to become an Intensive Care Specialist.

Registration with the Medical Board of Australia is required.

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Highest Level of Education (% Share)

Source: ABS Census 2016, Customised Report. Highest qualification completed by workers in this job (in any field of study). Qualifications needed by new workers might be different from the qualifications of workers already in the job.
Type of Qualification Intensive Care Specialists All Jobs Average
Post Graduate/Graduate Diploma or Graduate Certificate 41.3 10.1
Bachelor degree 58.2 21.8
Advanced Diploma/Diploma 0.0 11.6
Certificate III/IV 0.0 21.1
Year 12 0.5 18.1
Year 11 0.0 4.8
Year 10 and below 0.0 12.5

Source: ABS Census 2016, Customised Report. Highest qualification completed by workers in this job (in any field of study). Qualifications needed by new workers might be different from the qualifications of workers already in the job.

Skills and Knowledge

Employers look for Specialist Physicians who are caring, compassionate, empathetic and work well in a team.

Skills

Skills can be improved through training or experience.

  • 73%

    Reading comprehension

    Reading work related information.

  • 66%

    Social perceptiveness

    Understanding why people react the way they do.

  • 64%

    Active learning

    Being able to use what you have learnt to solve problems now and again in the future.

  • 64%

    Active listening

    Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.

  • 64%

    Critical thinking

    Thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem.

  • 63%

    Speaking

    Talking to others.

  • 63%

    Instructing

    Teaching people how to do something.

  • 61%

    Monitoring

    Keeping track of how well work is progressing so you can make changes or improvements.

  • 61%

    Writing

    Writing things for co-workers or customers.

  • 59%

    Complex problem solving

    Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.

  • 59%

    Judgment and decision making

    Figuring out the pros and cons of different options and choosing the best one.

  • 59%

    Serving others

    Looking for ways to help people.

  • 57%

    Coordination with others

    Being adaptable and coordinating work with other people.

  • 57%

    Learning strategies

    Figuring out the best way to teach or learn something new.

  • 54%

    Systems evaluation

    Measuring how well a system is working and how to improve it.

  • 52%

    Time management

    Managing your own and other peoples' time to get work done.

  • 50%

    Systems analysis

    Figuring out how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect it.

  • 50%

    Persuasion

    Talking people into changing their minds or their behaviour.

  • 48%

    Science

    Using scientific rules and methods to solve problems.

  • 48%

    Management of personnel resources

    Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, and choosing the best people for the job.

Knowledge

These are important topics, subjects or knowledge areas.

  • 87%

    Medicine and dentistry

    Diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities, including preventive health-care measures.

  • 81%

    Psychology

    Human behaviour; differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; research methods; assessing and treating disorders.

  • 75%

    Biology

    Plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, how they rely on and work with each other and the environment.

  • 73%

    Therapy and counselling

    Diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of physical and mental dysfunctions, and career counselling and guidance.

  • 72%

    Customer and personal service

    Understanding customer needs, providing good quality service, and measuring customer satisfaction.

  • 63%

    English language

    English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.

  • 54%

    Education and training

    Curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.

  • 53%

    Chemistry

    Chemical composition, structure, and properties. How chemicals are made, used, mixed, and can change.

  • 51%

    Computers and electronics

    Circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.

  • 49%

    Mathematics

    Arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics.

  • 45%

    Administration and management

    Business principles involved in strategic planning, leadership, and coordinating people and resources.

  • 45%

    Sociology and anthropology

    Group behaviour and dynamics, societal trends and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures and their history and origins.

  • 41%

    Law and government

    How our laws and courts work. Government rules and regulations, and the political system.

  • 36%

    Personnel and human resources

    Recruiting and training people, managing pay and other entitlements (like sick leave), and negotiating pay and conditions.

  • 34%

    Clerical

    Word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and other office work.

  • 33%

    Philosophy and theology

    Philosophical systems and religions, including their basic principles, values, ethics, ways of thinking, customs, practices, and impact on society.

  • 31%

    Public safety and security

    Use of equipment, rules and ideas to protect people, data, property, and institutions.

  • 29%

    Physics

    The physical laws of matter, motion and energy, and how they interact through space and time.

  • 27%

    Economics and accounting

    Economics and accounting, the financial markets, banking and checking and reporting of financial data.

  • 20%

    Communications and media

    Media production, communication, and dissemination. Includes written, spoken, and visual media.

Abilities

Workers use these physical and mental abilities..

  • 75%

    Inductive reasoning

    Use lots of detailed information to come up with answers or make general rules.

  • 75%

    Problem spotting

    Notice when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong, even if you can't solve the problem.

  • 73%

    Oral comprehension

    Listen to and understand what people say.

  • 73%

    Oral expression

    Communicate by speaking.

  • 71%

    Deductive reasoning

    Use general rules to find answers or solve problems logically.

  • 70%

    Written comprehension

    Read and understand written information.

  • 61%

    Written expression

    Write in a way that people can understand.

  • 61%

    Categorising

    Come up with different ways of grouping things.

  • 59%

    Sorting or ordering

    Order or arrange things in a pattern or sequence (e.g., numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).

  • 57%

    Near vision

    See details that are up-close (within a few feet).

  • 57%

    Speech recognition

    Identify and understand the speech of another person.

  • 57%

    Flexibility of closure

    See a pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) hidden in other distracting material.

  • 55%

    Speech clarity

    Speak clearly so others can understand you.

  • 55%

    Brainstorming

    Come up with a number of ideas about a topic, even if the ideas aren't very good.

  • 50%

    Speed of recognition

    Quickly make sense of and organize things you can see like letters, numbers, pictures, or other things.

  • 50%

    Originality

    Come up with unusual or clever ideas, or creative ways to solve a problem.

  • 48%

    Perceptual speed

    Use your eyes to quickly compare groups of letters, numbers, pictures, or other things.

  • 46%

    Mathematics

    Choose the right maths method or formula to solve a problem.

  • 43%

    Memorization

    Remember things like words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.

  • 41%

    Multitasking

    Do two or more things at the same time.

Activities

These are kinds of activities workers regularly do in this job.

  • 90%

    Helping and caring for others

    Providing personal assistance, medical attention, or emotional support.

  • 81%

    Keeping your knowledge up-to-date

    Keeping up-to-date with technology and new ideas.

  • 81%

    Making decisions and solving problems

    Using information to work out the best solution and solve problems.

  • 80%

    Looking for changes over time

    Comparing objects, actions, or events. Looking for differences between them or changes over time.

  • 79%

    Researching and investigating

    Looking for, getting and understanding different kinds of information.

  • 78%

    Monitoring people, processes and things

    Checking objects, actions, or events, and keeping an eye out for problems.

  • 74%

    Building good relationships

    Building good working relationships and keeping them over time.

  • 74%

    Giving expert advice

    Providing guidance and expert advice to management or other groups.

  • 74%

    Collecting and organising information

    Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or checking information or data.

  • 71%

    Planning and prioritising work

    Deciding on goals and putting together a detailed plan to get the work done.

  • 69%

    Documenting or recording information

    Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.

  • 68%

    Making sense of information and ideas

    Looking at, working with, and understanding data or information.

  • 64%

    Working with the public

    Greeting or serving customers, clients or guests, and public speaking or performing.

  • 61%

    Communicating within a team

    Giving information to co-workers by telephone, in writing, or in person.

  • 61%

    Negotiating and resolving conflicts

    Handling complaints and disagreements, and negotiating with people.

  • 59%

    Explaining things to people

    Helping people to understand and use information.

  • 55%

    Assessing and evaluating things

    Working out the value, importance, or quality of things, services or people.

  • 53%

    Checking compliance with standards

    Deciding whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.

  • 53%

    Leading and encouraging a team

    Encouraging and building trust, respect, and cooperation among team members.

  • 44%

    Working with computers

    Using computers to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.

Interests and demands

Learn about the daily activities, and physical and social demands faced by workers. Explore the values and work styles that workers rate as most important.

Interests

Interests are the style or type of work we prefer to do. All interest areas are shown below.

  • 90%

    Helping

    Working with people. Helping or providing service to others.

  • 71%

    Analytical

    Ideas and thinking. Searching for facts and figuring out problems in your head.

  • 52%

    Practical

    Practical, hands-on work. Often with plants and animals, or materials like wood, tools, and machinery.

  • 43%

    Enterprising

    Starting up and carrying out projects. Leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes require risk taking and often deal with business.

  • 33%

    Administrative

    Following set procedures and routines. Working with numbers and details more than with ideas, usually following rules.

  • 24%

    Creative

    Working with forms, designs and patterns. Often need self-expression and can be done without following rules.

Values

Work values are important to a person’s feeling of satisfaction. All six values are shown below.

  • 90%

    Achievement

    Results oriented. Workers are able to use their strongest abilities, giving them a feeling of accomplishment.

  • 86%

    Recognition

    Advancement and the potential to lead. Workers are recognised for the work that they do, they may give directions and instructions to others, and they are looked up to in their company and their community.

  • 81%

    Independence

    Work alone and make decisions. Workers are able to try out their own ideas, make decisions on their own, and work with little or no supervision.

  • 81%

    Support

    Supportive management that stands behind employees. Workers are treated fairly by their company, they are supported by management, and have supervisors who train them well.

  • 76%

    Relationships

    Serve and work with others. Workers usually get along well with each other, do things to help other people, and are rarely pressured to do things that go against their sense of right and wrong.

  • 76%

    Working conditions

    Job security and good working conditions. There is usually a steady flow of interesting work, and the pay and conditions are generally good.

Demands

The physical and social demands that workers face most often are shown below:

  • 100%

    Face-to-face discussions

    Talk with people face-to-face.

  • 99%

    Disease or infection

    Be exposed to disease or infections.

  • 98%

    Telephone

    Talk on the telephone.

  • 96%

    Freedom to make decisions

    Have freedom to make decision on your own.

  • 96%

    Impact of decisions

    Make decisions that have a large impact on other people.

  • 95%

    Consequence of error

    Work where mistakes have serious consequences.

  • 95%

    Contact with people

    Have contact with people by telephone, face-to-face, or any other way.

  • 95%

    Frequent decision making

    Frequently make decisions that impact other people.

  • 94%

    Physically close to people

    Work physically close to other people.

  • 93%

    Electronic mail

    Use electronic mail.

  • 93%

    Teamwork

    Work with people in a group or team.

  • 90%

    Indoors, heat controlled

    Work indoors with access to heating or cooling.

  • 90%

    Unstructured work

    Have freedom to decide on tasks, priorities, and goals.

  • 87%

    Being exact or accurate

    Be very exact or highly accurate.

  • 86%

    Contact with the public

    Work with customers or the public.

  • 86%

    Time pressure

    Work to strict deadlines.

  • 85%

    Letters and memos

    Write letters and memos.

  • 82%

    Angry or unpleasant people

    Deal with unpleasant, angry, or rude people.

  • 82%

    Lead or coordinate a team

    Lead others to do work activities.

  • 77%

    Wear common protective or safety equipment

    Wear equipment like safety shoes, glasses, gloves, hard hats or life jackets.

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