Options:

1 and 5: Adult nursing support and children and young people support

• Support individuals with activities of daily living to develop and maintain their independence in line with their desired outcomes and plan of care.

1, 2 and 5: Adult nursing support, maternity support and children and young people support

• Assist with tissue viability risk assessments and manage pressure areas.
• Obtain and test specimens in line with the care plan.
• Contribute to signposting to relevant agencies and, discharge or transfer of individuals between services, in line with their care plan.
• Recognise and respond to deteriorations in physical health, mental health and wellbeing.

1: Adult nursing support

• Support adults to take responsibility for their own health and wellbeing and for managing their own condition.

2: Maternity support

• Assist the midwife with teaching, feeding and hygiene needs of babies-parenting skills and antenatal and postnatal exercise.
• Assist health care professionals with antenatal and newborn screening and provide information to parents about immunisation activities.
• Provide support to the maternity team by maintaining the supply of resources, instruments and equipment.
• Support personal care such as providing care for women with urethral catheters.
• Identify the baby and provide wristband or label in line with local security procedures.
• Care for the physical needs of babies by undertaking routine healthy baby observations and reporting any abnormalities.
• Support parents and carers to meet the developmental, nutritional and hygiene needs of babies.
• Work in partnership with families and other support services to support individuals in difficult circumstances, bereavement and loss.
• Provide support to the midwife and others in the multi-disciplinary team in an emergency situation during pregnancy, labour, birth or the postnatal period.

3: Theatre support

• Complete pre- and post-operative checklists.
• Support the surgical team to maintain the sterile field.
• Participate in team briefing, patient sign in, timeout, sign out and debriefing.
• Support and monitor the pre-medicated, sedated and unconscious individual.
• Measure and record an individual’s body fluid balance.
• Move, position and transport individuals and specialist equipment before, during and after surgery.
• Prepare the clinical environment and provide surgical instrumentation and supplementary items for the surgical team.
• Carry out counts for swabs, sharps, instruments and disposable items and take action if something is missing.
• Assist in receiving, handling and dispatching clinical specimens or blood products.

4: Mental health support

• Use strategies and tools to promote mental wellbeing and to support individuals with mental ill health.
• Observe, record and report changes and barriers, using proactive approaches to manage behaviour which challenges.
• Take an active approach in supporting individuals to manage their condition.
• Build, monitor and sustain therapeutic relationships with individuals, carers and their families.
• Promote a recovery-based approach that enables the individual to manage their condition.
• Enable and empower individuals to actively participate in society and recognise the impact of mental health on them and others.
• Identify situations of risk to yourself or others and take action including seeking support.
• Involve the individual, carers and family members in risk management processes.
• Review and promote your own mental health and wellbeing.

5: Children and young people support

• Support the development of children and young people through therapeutic play and learning.
• Support children and young people through transitions by enabling shared or independent decision making.
• Support parents, families and carers to meet the needs of children and young people.
• Support children and young people before, during or after diagnostic, clinical or therapeutic procedures.

6: Allied health professional therapy support

• Provide therapeutic support in line with care plans to encourage independence, self-management and skills for everyday life.
• Assist with undertaking clinical risk assessments and management plans.
• Recognise the impact of mental or physical capacity, health condition, learning disability or overall wellbeing on the therapeutic or clinical task or intervention and when to adapt.
• Enable individuals to meet optimum potential.
• Facilitate group sessions to support health and well-being of individuals or communities.
• Support people to engage in the community and access activities or resources in line with their treatment goals.
• Identify, order or fit therapeutic equipment and resources in line with the individual’s care plan.
• Use equipment and resources therapeutically in a safe way in line with local policy and procedure.
• Demonstrate and teach the safe and appropriate use of therapeutic equipment and resources.
• Complete safety checks for therapeutic equipment and resources, following protocols to report issues or make adaptations if appropriate.

7: Diagnostic imaging support

• Assist and support the multi-disciplinary team in the safe and effective operation and maintenance of the imaging environment.
• Support the multi-disciplinary team in the safe flow of individuals through the imaging environment, recognising and complying with current legislation and best practice.
• Prepare individuals for imaging procedures, including those that maybe pre-medicated, sedated or unconscious.
• Support and position individuals during imaging procedures, including those that maybe pre-medicated, sedated or unconscious.
• Support practitioners with the preparation and administration of medicines and contrast agents within the scope of own role.
• Administer medicines supplied by a registered practitioner within the scope of own role.
• Insert, flush and remove cannulas in line with local protocols and within the scope of own role.
• Provide after care for individuals following imaging procedures.
• Assist practitioners in setting up and maintaining aseptic or clean area in the imaging environment.
• Support the multi-disciplinary team in the safe delivery of an imaging service.
• Review and promote the health and wellbeing of self and others, including mental health.
• Participate in team briefing, patient sign in, timeout, sign out and debriefing.
• Assist with undertaking clinical risk assessments and management plans.
• Recognise the impact of mental or physical capacity, health condition, learning disability or overall wellbeing on the therapeutic or clinical task or intervention and when to adapt.

Study day

Study day will be Thursdays (within contracted working hours)

Blended learning approach

Including classroom sessions, online learning and independent study - classroom sessions will be at the Learning Campus on the Midland Metropolitan University Campus

Essential qualifications

• GCSE in:
  • English