massage therapist
ISCO: 3255. Skills: 66. Essential: 21.
Essential skills
- accept own accountability
- apply massage therapy
- communicate with customers
- contraindications
- develop personalised massage plan
- discuss the medical history of the healthcare user
- empathise with the healthcare user
- give massages
- human anatomy
- identify customer's needs
- maintain customer service
- maintain personal hygiene standards
- maintain privacy of service users
- maintain work area cleanliness
- manage healthcare users' data
- massage theory
- massage types
- musculoskeletal anatomy
- provide health education
- skin types
- work ergonomically
Supporting skills
- administer appointments
- administer hydrotherapy
- administrative tasks in a medical environment
- apply acupuncture
- apply aromatherapy
- apply deep tissue massage
- apply sports massage
- apply thermotherapy
- balneotherapy
- carry out preventative internal medicine interventions
- comply with legislation related to health care
- conduct pregnancy massages
- cosmetic manicure
- cosmetic pedicure
- cosmetics
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- electrotherapy
- energy therapy
- etiopathy
- fasciatherapy
- health care legislation
- health care system
- human physiology
- hydrotherapy
- kinetics
- liaise with industry experts
- maintain equipment
- maintain professional administration
- manage a small-to-medium business
- manual lymphatic drainage massage
- order supplies
- pathology
- perform facial treatment
- phytotherapy
- pluck hair
- process medical insurance claims
- process payments
- provide individual exercise programmes
- reflexology
- rehabilitation
- reiki
- shiatsu
- sport and exercise medicine
- tai chi
- use hair removal lasers