Roles of health and social care professionals Flashcards
What are the daily responsibilities of workers in health and social care settings?
Following policies and procedures in place in their work setting
The healing and supporting recovery
Supporting routines of service users including daily family life, education, employment, and leisure activities.
Enabling rehabilitation
What are other daily responsibilities of workers in health and social care settings?
Assessment and care and support planning, involving service users and their families
Providing equipment and adaptations to support people to be more independent
Providing personal care including washing, feeding and toileting.
What are the key roles of a Care Manager?
A care manager is responsible for the day to day running of a residential care setting. Care settings include hospices, supported houses and homes for people who need nursing or help with day to day living, who have conditions such as dementia or disabilities. Care managers recruit and manager, control the budget and are responsible for ensuring that the service in the care setting meet National Care Standards as well as putting in policies and procedures and making sure they are adhered too.
What are the key roles of Care Assistants?
Care assistants are trained to help people of all ages who need care to carry out their day to day routines, in homes day care centres and residential care. They meet personal needs such as washing, toileting, dressing and feeding they also assist in monitoring health and wellbeing, by liaising with other professionals, as well as helping with transport, household tasks and taking people shopping.
What are the key roles of a Social Worker?
Social workers are trained to help a wide range of people, of all ages to find a solution to their problems. They work mainly in social care centres, homes and clinics, they protect vulnerable people from harm or abuse, helping people to live independently, support children who live apart from their families and support their foster carers and adopters, they also help people with mental health problems and learning difficulties and physical disabilities. They also support refugees and asylum seekers and help people with alcohol drug or substance misuse problems, and young offenders.
What are the key roles of Youth workers?
Youth worker help with personal, social and educational growth of people aged 11-25, to help them reach their full potential in society. They work mainly in youth centres schools and colleges, managing and administer youth and community projects and resources, monitoring and reviewing the quality of local youth work provision and work with families and carers. They also support individuals in other settings including outreach work relating to drinking, drugs, smoking, violence and relationships.
What are the key roles of Support workers?
Support workers provide care support to a range of service users in homes, centres and residential care, supporting other social care workers. They vary their duties depending on the needs and wishes of the individual, supporting individuals overall comfort and wellbeing under supervision of professionals while helping people who need care and support to live as independently as possible also working with families.
What are the key roles of a Doctor/ GPs?
They provide medical care for patients, working mainly in surgeries and local communities, they diagnose, treat, monitor and prevent illness, providing prescriptions for treatment and arrange preventative care such as flu immunisation and refer patients to other health professionals such as specialist doctors and therapists.
What are the Key role of Specialist Doctors?
They have expert training in particular areas, they work mainly in hospital and clinics, they diagnose, treat and monitor prevent illness in specialist areas, such as cardiology, oncology, paediatrics and geriatrics. They liaise with other professionals such as nursing to carry out treatment in hospital and contribute to teams for on-going patient care.
What are the Key roles of Nurses?
They are trained to carry out medical duties at their level of seniority and specialism, mainly in hospital, surgeries, clinics and homes. Specialisms include hospital critical care nursing cardiac nursing, surgical care and oncology nursing. Nurses monitor and care for the daily chronic and acute medical needs of patients. They support doctors in giving treatment and prescribed drugs, work to restored health and wellbeing.
What are the Key roles of Midwives?
They work mainly in hospital maternity units, clinics and homes, monitoring the prenatal development and health of mothers and babies helping them to deliver the babies and provide postnatal care, supporting mothers, babies and families after the birth.
What are the Key roles Healthcare Assistants?
They are trained to help with daily personal care and to support wellbeing. They work mainly in hospitals, clinics residential care and homes. They work under the guidance of qualified professionals such as nurses or doctors. Meeting care needs, such as washing feeding and mobility. Monitor health by taking temperature, pulse respiration rate and weight.
What are the Key roles of Occupational Therapists?
The facilitate recovery and overcome practical barriers. They work mainly in hospitals, clinics, residential care, and home. They identify issues people may have in everyday life, such as with dressing shopping or working, they help people to work out practical solutions.
What roles do social care workers carry out in residential care settings?
These are settings where people who can’t be cared for at home, or who feel that they can no longer cope with living on their own, are looked after. They may provide fulltime or temporary respite care to give a break to carers, or those who struggle living on their own. Social care workers provide residents with personal care, such as washing, dressing and toileting.
What roles do social care workers carry out in Domiciliary Care settings?
Social care workers provide care for people in their own home. Care workers help people lead their daily lives by supporting their independence. Social care workers might help people with shopping, cleaning, and transport, such as taking them to a doctor’s appointment. Social Care workers can provide carers with a short break from their duties.
