The Datum Report

Occupation 3219 · Associate professional occupations

Health associate professionals n.e.c.

Half of full-time health associate professionals n.e.c. in the UK earn more than £30,575 a year, and half earn less.

Job holders in this unit group carry out a variety of technical health support functions not elsewhere classified in minor group 321: Health associate professionals.

How people enter it

Entry is possible with a variety of academic and vocational qualifications. Professional qualifications are also available in some areas. Courses provide a mixture of theoretical study and practical experience. Membership of professional bodies may be mandatory in some areas.

What the work involves

• provides information, support and advice on diet
• counsels people on their problems, feelings and dealing with stress
• provides information, support and advice on healthy living and helps people develop healthier lifestyles
• teaches parents about pregnancy, delivery and early parenthood
• examines horses’ teeth for health problems and provides dental treatments which do not need to be provided by a vet

Also called

Antenatal teacher · Diet adviser · Equine dental technician · Health trainer · Therapist

What it pays

How pay has changed

Median gross annual pay for health associate professionals n.e.c., full-time employees, 2023 to 2025. Each point is that year's ASHE April snapshot as published — revisions are not backfilled into earlier years, and a year ONS withheld is a gap rather than a joined line.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Table

Year-on-year change

The change from each year to the next, in per cent, computed from the figures in the chart above — so the two cannot disagree.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Table

Pay by region

Median gross annual pay for full-time employees, ranked, against the UK figure. 2 of 11 regions are published: ONS withholds a cell where the survey sample cannot support it, and those are shown as gaps rather than dropped — an absent region is not a region without the work in it.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Period 2025. Table

Every regional figure

ONS does not publish occupational pay below region. Cells the survey could not support are shown as withheld, with its reason — adding a region split to a specific occupation leaves roughly a tenth of cells publishable.

Common questions

Classified alongside this

Complementary health associate professionals · Dispensing opticians · Medical and dental technicians · Pharmaceutical technicians