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OSCA 264337Updated 2026-01-29
Intensive Care Specialist
National shortage level: Strong
ANZSCO 253317OSCA 264337
Snapshot
Median pay: AUD 179k
Weekly earnings: AUD 3440
Salary range: AUD 161k-AUD 197k
Job ads trend: Not listed
Time to hire: Varies
Visa pathways: Check eligibility
State distribution
27.7%
VIC
27%
NSW
21.9%
QLD
Education mix
48.8%
bachelor degree
46.2%
Post graduate
1.1%
advanced diploma/ diploma
Role overview
Intensive Care Specialists investigate, diagnose and treat patients in need of intensive and critical care.
What you do
- • 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.
Core skills
Credentials & pathway
- Recommended level: bachelor degree (48.8%)
Recent job ads
No ads listed yet.
Tasks
- • Analyses test results and other medical information to make diagnoses.
- • 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.
- • May admit or refer patients to hospitals.
Earnings
Weekly median: AUD 3440
Annual median: AUD 179k
Range: AUD 161k-AUD 197k