Providing high-quality and compassionate specialist health and social care for a range of people.
Occupational Profile
Senior Healthcare Support Workers help registered practitioners deliver healthcare services to people. As an experienced support worker, you carry out a range of clinical and non-clinical healthcare or therapeutic tasks, under the direct or indirect supervision of the registered healthcare practitioner. You provide high quality, compassionate healthcare, following standards, policies or protocols and always acting within the limits of your competence. You may work in a range of services eg hospital, community, health or day case unit, birth center or midwifery led unit, someone’s home, operating theatre, nursing or care home, assessment center, hospice, school, prison, GP surgery, charity or voluntary organization; working in partnership with individuals, families, carers and other service providers.
Summary of standard
Full standard
https://www.instituteforapprenticeships.org/media/1195/senior_healthcare_support_worker.pdf
