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Paramedical Practitioner
OFO Code: 224101
Last checked 7 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 224101
- Occupation
- Paramedical Practitioner
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- PROFESSIONALS
- Unit group
- 2241 · Paramedical Practitioners
Official description
Paramedical practitioners provide advisory, diagnostic, curative and preventive medical services for humans more limited in scope and complexity than those carried out by medical doctors. They work autonomously or with limited supervision of medical doctors, and apply advanced clinical procedures for treating and preventing diseases, injuries and other physical or mental impairments common to specific communities.
More official OFO detail
Specialisations: Advanced Care Paramedic, Feldscher, Primary Care Paramedic, Clinical Officer (Paramedical)
- Administering or ordering diagnostic tests, such as x-ray, electrocardiogram, and laboratory tests; performing therapeutic procedures, such as injections, immunizations, suturing and wound care, and infection management
- Advising patients and families on diet, exercise and other habits which aid prevention or treatment of disease and disorders
- Conducting physical examinations of patients and interviewing them and their families to determine their health status and recording patients' medical information
- Performing basic or more routine medical and surgical procedures, including prescribing and administering treatments, medications and other preventive or curative measures, especially for common diseases and disorders
- Assisting medical doctors with complex surgical procedures; monitoring patients' progress and response to treatment, and identifying signs and symptoms requiring referral to medical doctors
- Identifying and referring complex or unusual cases to medical doctors, hospitals or other places for specialised care; reporting births, deaths and notifiable diseases to government authorities to meet legal and professional reporting requirements
2. Demand status
Demand evidence unavailable
No approved governed OIHD graph relationship is available on this deployment for this OFO code.
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3. Salary evidence
No approved governed salary observation or sourced snapshot salary record is available for this OFO code yet.
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5. Qualification
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7. Industry, sector and provincial context
National occupation classification. Industry and provincial context are shown only where a separate official source supports the link.
No source-backed modern OFO↔SIC 7 industry link has been ingested for this occupation yet. PathLens does not infer one from the job title.
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9. Decision tools
10. Sources for this page
- DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Ingested · identity spine active
Canonical OFO identity data has been ingested and validated. 1511 occupation records are recorded in the ingest artifact. - DHET Occupations in High Demand · Validated pipeline · graph publication not confirmed
The governed OIHD pipeline is active, but a successful populated graph run is not currently confirmed on this deployment. - Critical Skills List · Monitored · occupation linkage pending
Official migration sources are monitored, but PathLens does not infer visa eligibility or occupation-level eligibility from monitoring alone. - QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Candidate staging ready · not published
Qualification staging and human review are implemented; no qualification↔OFO relationship is published without an explicit source identifier or governed human review. - Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Acquisition active · no approved evidence on this deployment
Official QLFS artifact discovery is active. Dataset-specific schema, weighting, reliability and review gates remain separate; a discovered artifact or executable estimator does not itself create a public claim. - SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Partial · explicit source links only
PathLens preserves explicit source-backed SETA/activity links where present and does not infer modern SIC relationships from occupation titles.