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
 Enables comparisons between
qualifications in different countries
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
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
National Vocational Qualification
in Health and Social care

 Levels 2,3 and 4

 Children and young people or Adults

 Core and optional units

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
Areas of work for Health care
Assistants
 Residential
 Hospital
 Day care
 Domiciliary care
 In public, private or voluntary sectors
Role of Health care Assistants

 Washing and dressing

 Feeding
 Helping people to mobilise
 Toileting
 Bedmaking
 Patient comfort
 Monitoring patient’s condition
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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