Level 3 Senior Healthcare Support Worker
The primary role of a Level 3 Senior Healthcare Support Worker is to help registered practitioners deliver healthcare services to people. Providing high-quality and compassionate specialist health and social care for a range of people.
You may work in a hospital, community, health or day case unit, birth centre or midwifery-led unit, someone’s home, operating theatre, nursing or care home, assessment centre, hospice, school, prison, GP surgery, charity or voluntary organisation; working in partnership with individuals, families, carers and other service providers.
The primary role of a Senior Healthcare Support Worker is to provide high-quality and compassionate specialist health and social care for a range of 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, providing high-quality, compassionate healthcare, following standards, policies, or protocols and always acting within the limits of your competence.
As an experienced support worker, they carry out a variety of clinical and non-clinical healthcare or therapeutic tasks, under the direct or indirect supervision of the registered healthcare practitioner, providing high-quality, compassionate healthcare, following standards, policies, or protocols and always acting within the limits of their competence.
The duration for this apprenticeship standard is 18 - 24 months.
The completion of this standard will require monthly training visits from a qualified IPS trainer to develop the apprentice’s skills and progress the build of the apprentice learning journal to prepare the learner for the end-point assessment. The awarding organisation used to achieve this apprenticeship standard is City & Guilds.
After a period of working and gaining experience, you may wish to work towards an assistant practitioner or nursing associate post or, providing you meet entry requirements, apply to University to become a registered healthcare practitioner.
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