Healthcare Support Workers: A Practical Guide for Training and Development

ISBN-13: 9781032170589 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 272 str.

Richard Griffin

Opis

NHS support workers, such as nursing Healthcare Assistants, Maternity Support Workers, and Therapy Assistants, often provide the majority of face-to-face care to patients, clients and their families. This accessible guide explores the issues underpinning their recruitment, training, management, development and progression.

Spis treści

Introduction, The basics: Understanding education levels and credits, 1. Setting the scene, 2. Missed opportunities? The current position of NHS support workers, Part I: Get ready, 3. Engaging with local employment and skills systems, Part II: Get in, 4. On-boarding: Recruitment, selection, induction and initial training of support workers, Part III: Get on, 5. The best you can be: Unleashing potential through in-work development and good people management, 6. Regulation, delegation and supervision, Part IV: Go further, 7. Widening participation into healthcare degrees and degree apprenticeships, 8. What next for NHS support workers?