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Roles and Responsibilities Within Health Care - Chloe - Copy

Roles within Healthcare and Health and Social Care
Academic year: 2019/2020
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Roles and Responsibilities

Nurses

Role: is to advocate and care for individuals of all ethnic origins and religious backgrounds and support them through health and illness.

Responsibilities: Conduct physical exams. Take detailed health care histories. Listen to patients and analyse their physical and emotional needs. Provide counselling and health care education to patients. Coordinate care with other health care providers and specialists.

Midwife

Role: is widely regarded to be a trained professional who assists women with pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period. It includes supporting women and their families, providing information about how to maintain healthy pregnancies and carrying out clinical examinations.

Responsibilities: examining and monitoring pregnant women. Assessing care requirements and writing care plans. Undertaking antenatal care in hospitals, homes and GP practices. Carrying out screening tests. Providing information, emotional support and reassurance to women and their partners.

Health Care Assistants

Role: a vital part of the team that supports the medical staff and patients in wards and departments throughout the hospital.

Responsibilities: looking after the physical comfort of patients, for example helping them to wash themselves and emptying bedpans. Keeping departments clean and tidy, for example cleaning equipment and making and changing beds. Taking and recording basic observations such as blood pressure and temperature helping patients to eat and to move about, if they have mobility problems. Listening and talking to patients.

Social Worker

Role: provide advice, support and resources to individuals and families to help them solve their problems

Responsibilities: Be in contact with vulnerable people. Helping in crises. Planning activities. Building relationships with your client, their families and

friends and other professionals in the social care network. Working with families. Writing and filing reports.

Occupational Therapists

Role: is to help people of all ages overcome the effects of disability caused by illness, ageing or accident so that they can carry out everyday tasks or occupations.

Responsibilities: treat disabled, ill or injured patients with special equipment and the therapeutic use of daily activities. They help patients improve, regain and develop the skills needed for day to day life and work. They may provide long-term patient care and acute patient care

Youth Worker

Role: plan, organise and oversee community programmes aimed at young people. Work directly with children and young people, helping them to build life skills, develop healthy relationships and make decisions that are right for them.

Responsibilities: setting up and running projects. Mentoring or counselling individual young people. Managing budgets. Applying for project funding. Maintaining confidential records .writing and presenting reports. Facilitating workshops in schools and community settings

Care assistant manager

Role: is a healthcare provider who assesses patients' needs and creates personalized care plans

Responsibilities: you'll be responsible for all aspects of the day-to-day operations within the care setting, including recruiting and managing staff teams, managing budgets and ensuring that the quality of the services provided meets national care standards.

Support Manager

Role: Assessing the technical needs of staff or clients. Establishing and maintaining strong relationships across teams and with staff/clients. ... Managing and upholding the troubleshooting escalation process. Managing hardware and software.

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Module: The course consists of three years full time study. Each year consists of a variety of modules of 20 or 60 credit value, totalling 120credits.

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Roles and Responsibilities
Nurses
Role: is to advocate and care for individuals of all ethnic origins and religious
backgrounds and support them through health and illness.
Responsibilities: Conduct physical exams. Take detailed health care histories.
Listen to patients and analyse their physical and emotional needs. Provide
counselling and health care education to patients. Coordinate care with other
health care providers and specialists.
Midwife
Role: is widely regarded to be a trained professional who assists women with
pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period. It includes supporting
women and their families, providing information about how to maintain
healthy pregnancies and carrying out clinical examinations.
Responsibilities: examining and monitoring pregnant women. Assessing care
requirements and writing care plans. Undertaking antenatal care in hospitals,
homes and GP practices. Carrying out screening tests. Providing information,
emotional support and reassurance to women and their partners.
Health Care Assistants
Role: a vital part of the team that supports the medical staff and patients in
wards and departments throughout the hospital.
Responsibilities: looking after the physical comfort of patients, for example
helping them to wash themselves and emptying bedpans. Keeping
departments clean and tidy, for example cleaning equipment and making and
changing beds. Taking and recording basic observations such as blood pressure
and temperature helping patients to eat and to move about, if they have
mobility problems. Listening and talking to patients.
Social Worker
Role: provide advice, support and resources to individuals and families to help
them solve their problems
Responsibilities: Be in contact with vulnerable people. Helping in crises.
Planning activities. Building relationships with your client, their families and

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