Health and social care unit 2

• Occupational therapist facilitate recovery and overcome practical barriers ,they work mainly hospitals ,clinics ,residential care and homes
• Occupational therapists identify issues people may have in their everyday life's such as dressing ,shopping or working help people to work out practical situations
• Gp's surgies and local health centres ,doctor's diagnose the patients illness may issue a prescription for medication or refer patients to other services ,nurses might carry out treatment such as blood tests or health screening
• Hospitals patients go here for a treatment that a GP cannot give ,where operations are carried out accident and emergency department and some walk in centres are located patients are referred by their GP's to specialist medical teams specialist doctors (consultants) may issue a prescription and specialist medication or refer patients to surgeon and operations
• Clinics patients go here to be treated with specific medical conditions .patients are referred by their GP's to specialist clinics based in hospitals and in the community trained personnel ,including doctors and nurses ,work ,in clinics
• Care managers are responsible for ensuring that the services in the care setting meeting national care standards care ,put policies and procedures in place and make sure they adhere to
• 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
• Roles of a care assistant meet personal needs such as washing ,dressing ,feeding ,toleteing ,dressing

  Assist in monitoring health and wellbeing by liaising with other professionals

  Help transport household tasks and taking people shopping
• Social workers trained to help a wide range of people of all ages to find solutions to their problems

  Work mainly in social care centres ,homes clinics
• Social workers protect vulnerable people from harm or abuse ,help people to live independently,support children who live apart from their families and support their fosters carers and adopters

  Help people with mental health problems ,learning disabilities or physical disabilities .support refugees with asylum seekers .help people with alcohol ,drug substance misuse problems and young offenders
• Youth workers help personal social and educational growth

  Help fulfil their potential

  Monitor the quality of community help for the young

  Work with families and carers

  Teach about drugs ,drinking ,violence and relationship
• Support workers provide care support to a range of service users in homes ,centres and residential care ,supporting other health care workers
• Support workers varies on duties depending on the needs and wishes of the individual ,support individuals overall comfort and wellbeing under supervision if professional
• Support workers help people who need care and support to live as independently as possible also working with families

  Help people with their days to day living .includes enabling people with learning and physical difficulties to prepare food
• Doctors roles refering patients to specialist ,liaising with multi disciplinary teams
• Doctors key non medical responsibilities creating and maintaining relationship of trust with patients

  Observing listening and responding

  Maintaining patients record

  Maintain confidentiality

  Acting in accordance with legislation
• Key responsibilities of nurses

  Observing condition of patients

  Administering drugs and injection

  Carrying out routine investigators

  Preparing patients for operations
• Non key medical responsibilities of nurses

  Providing accordance and counselling

  Writing with patient care plans

  Planning patients discharge from the hospital acting as a patient advocate

  Helping work recovery and rehabilation
• Key medical responsibilities of a midwife

  Diagnosing,monitoring and examine pregnant women

  Providing anetal care including screening tests

  Assisting during labour

  Supervising pain management
• Key non medical responsibilities of a midwife

  Preparing and reviewing patients care plans

  Arranging parent health education

  Providing and support and advice about new born babies

  Providing support advice following a miscarriage ,termination or neonatal

  Liaising with other agencies to ensure continuity care
• Health care assistants key medical responsibilities

  Monitoring patients conditions by taking ,temperature ,pulse ,respiration rate ,taking blood samples ,carrying out health checks ,weighing patients
• Key non medical responsibilities health care assistants washing and dressing patients ,helping patients with their mobility ,supporting day to day routines ,talking to patients working under the direction of the nursing staff ,supporting and delivering health education
• Key medical responsibilities of an occupational therapist ,being aware of acute medical conditions ,how to overcome them in contexts such as accidents and emergency and acute medicine
• Care managers key skills ,qualities ,tasks creating and maintaining relationships with trusts with residents ,maintaining accurate patient records ,observing ,listening and responding to resident concerns ,maintaining confidentiality
• Care assistants key roles providing appropriate dialy personal care ,carrying out general household tasks ,carrying out other routine roles as required by supervisor or service user ,liaising with other healthcare professionals
• Care assistants key skills ,qualities and tasks ,working in a different care setting ,observing and reporting changes in the health and wellbeing of service user ,making service user feels at ease ,maintaining confidence
• Key responsibilities of social workers managing a designated case load ,maintaining a professional resignation ,working within regulatory guidelines ,keeping informed of changes in policy and procedure ,liaising with other agencies e.g. the police for vulnerable children
• Key skills ,qualities and tasks for a social worker ,preparing and reviewing case files of clients ,making difficult decisions ,working with a variety of services users of different ages ,ensuring continuity of care
• Key responsibilities of a youth worker ,demonstrating values which underpin youth values ,completing a background check with the disclosure and barring services ,continuing professional development ,acting as a youth mentor
• Key skills ,qualities and tasks youth workers ,working across different sectors ,including care and criminal justice and in the public ,private ,voluntary sector organisation ,developing projects with schools and other ,organisations such as debates about election or capital punishment ,offering advice topics such as sexual health using language which is accessible to young people
• Key responsibilities of a support worker,following the instruction of health care professionals ,implementing care plans agreed with social workers ,supporting members of the family who provide care with parenting ,finical or domestic skills
• Benefits of residential care ,triaged staff meet people's needs and support them ,specialist support is available for those with more complex care needs ,companionship is provided by other residents and staff ,a range of stimulating activities is offered
• Benefits of residential care ,triaged staff meet people's needs and support them ,specialist support is available for those with more complex care needs ,companionship is provided by other residents and staff ,a range of stimulating activities is offered
• Difficulties for people in residential care social workers have to support people to overcome the difficulties of residential care ,losing some or all of their independence,reluctant to leave their own homes ,isolation from friends and relation ,cost of care
• GP's are increasingly based in local health centres ,working other doctors and a range of health and care professionals such as nurses ,health visitors and counsellors
• Gp's may refer people to hospital specialists (consultants) or other care professionals for further assessment and treatment such as x rays or blood tests or to social workers for social support
• The preventative care and health education services provide include vaccination programmes for all ages ,health education and advice on issues such as smoking ,alcohol consumption and healthy eating
• The preventative and health education services provide include vaccination programmes for all ages ,health education and advice on issues such as smoking ,alcohol consumption and health eating
• Hospitals provide specialist medical care
• Psychiatrists specialise in treating mental health problems