Senior Healthcare Support Worker – Level 3

Senior Healthcare Support Workers help registered practitioners deliver healthcare services to people. As an experienced support worker, you carry out a range of clinical and non-clinical healthcare or therapeutic tasks, under the direct or indirect supervision of the registered healthcare practitioner. You provide high quality, compassionate healthcare, following standards, policies or protocols and always acting within the limits of your competence. You may work in a range of services eg. hospital, community, health or day-case unit, birth centre or midwifery led unit, someone’s home, operating theatre, nursing or care home, assessment centre, hospice, school, prison, GP surgery, charity or voluntary organisation; working in partnership with individuals, families, carers and other service providers.

The course content for the Level 3 qualification typically includes:

Health and wellbeing
Duty of care and candour, safeguarding, equality and diversity
Person centred care, treatment and support
Communication
Personal, people and quality improvement
Health, safety and security
Senior Healthcare Support workers will then specialise in one of the following disciplines depending on their job role:

Adult Nursing Support
Maternity Support
Theatre Support
Mental Health Support
Children and young people
Allied Health Profession – Therapy Support