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Vocational Education in Health Care

Vocational Education in Health Care. Kohtla-Jarve Campus Tallin Health College May 2010. European Qualifications Framework. Aims to develop a European-wide workforce that is mobile and flexible and to aid lifelong learning Facilitates moving between countries in Europe

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Vocational Education in Health Care

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  1. Vocational Education in Health Care Kohtla-Jarve Campus Tallin Health College May 2010

  2. European Qualifications Framework • Aims to develop a European-wide workforce that is mobile and flexible and to aid lifelong learning • Facilitates moving between countries in Europe • Enables comparisons between qualifications in different countries

  3. Qualifications and Credit Framework in the UK • Flexible way of recognising and rewarding skills and qualifications • All units and qualification will have credit and a level • Credit may be at Award, Certificate or Diploma level • Will replace Health and Social care National Vocational Qualifications

  4. Qualification work streams • Include:- • Preparing for work in the care sector • Physical disability • First aid • Activities organiser • End of life care • Leadership and management in care services

  5. National Vocational Qualification in Health and Social care • Levels 2,3 and 4 • Children and young people or Adults • Core and optional units

  6. NVQ levels • Level 2 is the National minimum standard • Levels 2 and 3 are for those who provide direct care or supervise and manage others • Level 4 for those who work in senior roles

  7. Areas of work for Health care Assistants • Residential • Hospital • Day care • Domiciliary care • In public, private or voluntary sectors

  8. Role of Health care Assistants • Washing and dressing • Feeding • Helping people to mobilise • Toileting • Bedmaking • Patient comfort • Monitoring patient’s condition

  9. Physiotherapy Assistant • Rehabilitate patients suffering from injury, illness or disability • Help patients with mobility problems • Setting up and maintaining equipment • Keeping records and reporting to Physiotherapists

  10. Preparation for Physio Assistant • On the job training • NVQ level 3 in Health: Allied Health professional support • May join the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy for educational facilities • May study for Foundation Degree after experience and become Assistant Practitioner

  11. Emergency Care Assistant • Drive ambulances under emergency conditions • Maintaining the ambulance and preventing cross infection • Helping paramedics deal with urgent hospital admissions • Reporting and recording patient information

  12. Preparation for ECAs • 9 weeks Intensive Training • First aid • Basic life support skills • Moving and Handling skills • Specialised driving techniques • Transferring patients • Assessed after 6 months

  13. Assistant Practitioners • Generic role • Meet the need for Regulation • Not under regulation of Nursing and Midwifery Council • Present HCAs can join Royal College of Nursing

  14. Assistant Practitioners • Response to Healthcare employer’s requests for standardisation • Core Standards developed by Skills for Health group • Level of responsibility just below Registered Practitioner

  15. Assistant Practitioner • ….Is a worker who competently delivers health and social care to and for people • delivers elements of care previously the remit of professional practitioners • may transcend professional boundaries

  16. Foundation Degree Health Care • Generic route for role development in multidisciplinary settings • 2 Year course usually part-time • Based in practice area • No professional body in control • Transferability of role possible • May have a clinical role

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