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Complementary Health Associate Professionals

Complementary health associate professionals use non-mainstream treatments in support of conventional medical treatments.

Wages

New workers
AVERAGE
Experienced
£14,105
£24,760
£36,413

New workers start around £14,105. Normal pay is £24,760 per year.
Highly experienced workers can earn up to £36,413.

Available jobs

In the past year there were 5,661 vacancies for this type of job

9.32%

Projected job growth over the next 8 years

Related courses

People work towards these careers by taking these courses at college and uni.

What they do most days?

  • Uses hypnotherapy to relieve or treat health conditions and to change habits.

  • Massages reflex points in the hands and feet to relieve pain and promote healing in other parts of the body.

  • Administers aromatic herbs and oils and massages body to relieve pain and restore health.

  • Uses colour therapy to help with people’s mental and physical problems.

  • Manipulates and massages patient to discover the cause of pain, relieve discomfort, restore function and mobility and to correct irregularities in body structure.

  • Prescribes and prepares homeopathic remedies .

  • Advises and prescribes in areas of complementary and alternative medicine.

Hard Skills

Hard skills are specific, learnable, measurable, often industry or occupation-specific abilities related to a position.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Health Equity

  • Treatment Planning

  • Physical Therapy

  • Human Musculoskeletal System

  • Rehabilitation

  • Chiropractics

  • Clinical Reasoning

  • Marketing

  • Project Management

  • Reflexology

Soft Skills

Soft skills can be self-taught and usually do not necessitate a certain completed level of education.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Communication

  • English Language

  • Management

  • Mentorship

  • Interpersonal Communications

  • Leadership

  • Customer Service

  • Mathematics

  • Time Management

  • Planning

How do I get a job like this?

People in these types of job started their career paths after studying courses like the ones below.

Routes to this career

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Health & Social Care

Liverpool Hope University

BA (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Liverpool · 09/2025

Tariff points: 104/104

Public Health

University of East London

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Stratford · 22/09/2025

Tariff points: 112/112

Integrative Healthcare

University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI)

BSc (Hons) · 4 Years · Full-time · Elgin · 09/2025

Tariff points: 63/64

Public Health with Foundation Year

University of Wolverhampton

BSc (Hons) · 4 Years · Full-time · Wolverhampton · 09/2025

Tariff points: 1/48

Mental Health Nursing

Kingston University

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · London · 15/09/2025

Tariff points: 120/136

Osteopathic Medicine

Plymouth Marjon University

MOst · 4 Years · Full-time · Plymouth · 22/09/2025

Tariff points: 112/112

Population Health Sciences

UCL (University College London)

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · London · 22/09/2025

Tariff points: N/A

Nursing (Mental Health)

University of Portsmouth

BN (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Portsmouth · 22/09/2025

Tariff points: 112/120

Public Health

Buckinghamshire New University

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · High Wycombe · 09/2025

Tariff points: 88/112

Osteopathy

Health Sciences University (formerly AECC University College)

MOst · 4 Years · Full-time · London · 09/2025

Tariff points: 112/112

Mental Health Nursing

Bournemouth University

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Poole · 22/09/2025

Tariff points: 112/128

Nursing Studies (Mental Health)

Teesside University

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Middlesbrough · 15/09/2025

Tariff points: 112/112

Health and Social Care

Cardiff Metropolitan University

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Cardiff · 22/09/2025

Tariff points: 104/104

Health Studies

Royal Holloway, University of London

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Egham · 22/09/2025

Tariff points: N/A

Health and Social Care

University of Derby

BA (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Derby · 09/2025

Tariff points: 96/96

Nursing (Mental Health)

University of Brighton

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Brighton · 09/2025

Tariff points: 112/112

Health and Social Care

University of Staffordshire

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Stoke-on-Trent · 22/09/2025

Tariff points: 96/96

Integrative-Relational Counselling

South Thames College Group (inc Carshalton, South Thames and Kingston College)

BA (Hons) · 1 Year · Full-time · Kingston upon Thames · 09/2025

Tariff points: N/A

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