healthcare assistant
Code 5321.1
Healthcare assistants work in teams of nurses within the occupational fields of nursing, social care, clinical care and care of people of all age-groups. Healthcare assistants assist in the promotion and restoration of patients' health by providing physical and psychological support to patients, friends and families.
Essential skills
Skills and competences
- Proporcionar formación y soporte técnico a los usuarios en el ámbito de la salud
- accept own accountability
- communicate with nursing staff
- contribute to continuity of health care
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- empathise with the healthcare user
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- manage healthcare users' data
- identify abnormalities
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- listen actively
- promote inclusion
- provide basic support to patients
- interact with healthcare users
- follow clinical guidelines
- have computer literacy
- work under supervision in care
- work with nursing staff
- convey medical routine information
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- monitor basic patients signs
Transversal competences
- deal with emergency care situations
- respond to changing situations in health care
- apply organisational techniques
- support nurses
- educate on the prevention of illness
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- provide health education
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences