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9 main job roles ✅✅Doctors
Nurses
Midwives
Youth Worker
Social Worker
Support Worker
Occupational Therapist
Care manager/assistant
Healthcare Assistant
Main roles of a doctor ✅✅- caring for individuals who are unwell
- carry out simple surgical procedures
- provide preventative care
Main roles of nurses ✅✅- provide care
- prioritise needs
- prescribe medication
Types of nurses ✅✅- adult
- mental health
- children
- learning disability
- district
- neonatal
- health visitor
- practice nurse
Roles of midwives ✅✅- support women through stages of pregnancy (antenatal/
postnatal)
- help prepare families for parenthood
- delivering children
Roles of healthcare assistants ✅✅- carrying out observations
- recording patients: weight, temperature, blood pressure
- toileting
- making beds
- washing and dressing
,- serving meals
Roles of social workers ✅✅- provide help and support
- help protect the most vulnerable
- safeguard vulnerable from harm
- help individuals live independently
- support children with learning disabilities or mental health issues
Roles of an Occupational therapist ✅✅- work with people of all ages
- who find it difficult to carry out day to day tasks
- will agree to specific activities with an individual that will allow them to overcome
BARRIERS, in order for them to live an independent life
Roles of youth workers ✅✅- work with people aged 11-25
- support young people to help them reach their full potential
- deliver programmes
- organise residential trips
- work with parents
Roles of care managers ✅✅- part of leadership within a residential home
- routine running
- manging teams
- managing budget
- ensuring quality of care is met
Roles of care assistants ✅✅- provide practical help and support with daily activities
- personal care
- household tasks
- paying bills
- liaising with other health care professionals
A2- Responsibilities of people who work in H&SC settings ✅✅(PHREPRA)
1) following policies and procedures ✅✅- should be followed to ensure that the care
provided meets service users needs
- aim to ensure that all staff work within the law
- ensure highest professional standards
2) healing and supporting recovery for people who are ill ✅✅different strategies to
help support and recover ill people
- prescribing medication
- surgery
- radiotherapy
- organ transplant
- support for lifestyle changes
, - accessing support from specialists agencies
3) Enabling rehabilitation ✅✅rehabilitation- restoring a person to good health
- rehabilitation programmes
- physiotherapists, occupational therapists
4) Providing equipment and adaptations to support people in being more independent
✅✅using a range of equipment
- equipment to increase mobility
- appliances that support daily living activities
- technology and other resources that support educational achievement
5) Providing personal care ✅✅- dealing with personal care has an effect on self
esteem and general confidence
- important to approach this care with thoughtfulness and sensitivity
- must discuss routines with individuals
- follow policies and procedures
Providing personal care cont....... ✅✅Domiciliary care- care at home
- equipment
- healthcare professionals must be aware of and respect religious and cultural
differences- dietary requirements
6) Supporting routines of service users in the context of their day to day life ✅✅- need
to address the wider personal needs
- in attending to the needs of the whole person they will help support individuals to
maintain a fulfilling and satisfying daily life.
7) Assessment and care and support planning, involving service users and their families
✅✅- care planning cycle
- assessing care needs
- agreeing a care plan to promote the service user
- evaluating the effectiveness of the care implemented
- adjustments may be necessary
A3- Specific responsibilities of people who work in health and social care settings
✅✅- all professionals are required to work to high professionals standards
- required to follow agreed policies and procedures
Value systems and its commitments ✅✅- promoting anti discriminatory practice
- empowering individuals
- ensuring safety to staff and service users
- maintaining confidentiality
- promoting good communication
- being accountable to professional bodies
correct verified solutions
9 main job roles ✅✅Doctors
Nurses
Midwives
Youth Worker
Social Worker
Support Worker
Occupational Therapist
Care manager/assistant
Healthcare Assistant
Main roles of a doctor ✅✅- caring for individuals who are unwell
- carry out simple surgical procedures
- provide preventative care
Main roles of nurses ✅✅- provide care
- prioritise needs
- prescribe medication
Types of nurses ✅✅- adult
- mental health
- children
- learning disability
- district
- neonatal
- health visitor
- practice nurse
Roles of midwives ✅✅- support women through stages of pregnancy (antenatal/
postnatal)
- help prepare families for parenthood
- delivering children
Roles of healthcare assistants ✅✅- carrying out observations
- recording patients: weight, temperature, blood pressure
- toileting
- making beds
- washing and dressing
,- serving meals
Roles of social workers ✅✅- provide help and support
- help protect the most vulnerable
- safeguard vulnerable from harm
- help individuals live independently
- support children with learning disabilities or mental health issues
Roles of an Occupational therapist ✅✅- work with people of all ages
- who find it difficult to carry out day to day tasks
- will agree to specific activities with an individual that will allow them to overcome
BARRIERS, in order for them to live an independent life
Roles of youth workers ✅✅- work with people aged 11-25
- support young people to help them reach their full potential
- deliver programmes
- organise residential trips
- work with parents
Roles of care managers ✅✅- part of leadership within a residential home
- routine running
- manging teams
- managing budget
- ensuring quality of care is met
Roles of care assistants ✅✅- provide practical help and support with daily activities
- personal care
- household tasks
- paying bills
- liaising with other health care professionals
A2- Responsibilities of people who work in H&SC settings ✅✅(PHREPRA)
1) following policies and procedures ✅✅- should be followed to ensure that the care
provided meets service users needs
- aim to ensure that all staff work within the law
- ensure highest professional standards
2) healing and supporting recovery for people who are ill ✅✅different strategies to
help support and recover ill people
- prescribing medication
- surgery
- radiotherapy
- organ transplant
- support for lifestyle changes
, - accessing support from specialists agencies
3) Enabling rehabilitation ✅✅rehabilitation- restoring a person to good health
- rehabilitation programmes
- physiotherapists, occupational therapists
4) Providing equipment and adaptations to support people in being more independent
✅✅using a range of equipment
- equipment to increase mobility
- appliances that support daily living activities
- technology and other resources that support educational achievement
5) Providing personal care ✅✅- dealing with personal care has an effect on self
esteem and general confidence
- important to approach this care with thoughtfulness and sensitivity
- must discuss routines with individuals
- follow policies and procedures
Providing personal care cont....... ✅✅Domiciliary care- care at home
- equipment
- healthcare professionals must be aware of and respect religious and cultural
differences- dietary requirements
6) Supporting routines of service users in the context of their day to day life ✅✅- need
to address the wider personal needs
- in attending to the needs of the whole person they will help support individuals to
maintain a fulfilling and satisfying daily life.
7) Assessment and care and support planning, involving service users and their families
✅✅- care planning cycle
- assessing care needs
- agreeing a care plan to promote the service user
- evaluating the effectiveness of the care implemented
- adjustments may be necessary
A3- Specific responsibilities of people who work in health and social care settings
✅✅- all professionals are required to work to high professionals standards
- required to follow agreed policies and procedures
Value systems and its commitments ✅✅- promoting anti discriminatory practice
- empowering individuals
- ensuring safety to staff and service users
- maintaining confidentiality
- promoting good communication
- being accountable to professional bodies