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Healthcare assistant practitioner
Providing, supervising and coordinating high-quality and compassionate health and social care for a wide range of people.
Summary of this apprenticeship standard
- Level
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5 (equivalent to foundation degree)
- Typical length
- 18 months
- Current funding band
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Up to £12,000 per apprentice.
More information about funding - Entry requirements
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Set by employer.
- What apprentices will learn
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- health and social care principles and philosophy - including duty of care, person centred care, promoting mental health and well-being and safeguarding and protection
- healthcare needs from prenatal to end of life care and bereavement support
- higher clinical skills - including catheterisation, wound care and discharge planning
- case and risk management - including infection prevention and control
- team working - including supervising, teaching, mentoring and assessing other staff
- patient assessment and coordination of care - including implementing and modifying care plans
- health and safety practices, standards and legislation within a healthcare environment
- Qualifications
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- level 5 occupational competence qualification - for example a foundation degree, diploma of higher education or diploma for assistant practitioners in healthcare
Before taking their end-point assessment apprentices must:
- achieve level 2 English and maths (equivalent to GCSEs at grades A* to C)
- Professional registration
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None specified.
- End-Point Assessment
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View a list of end-point assessment organisations for this standard
Organisation Phone Number Email NCFE/CACHE 0191 240 8950 davidgrailey@ncfe.org.uk Highfield Awarding Body for Compliance (HABC) 0845 226 0350 bcressey@highfieldabc.com Pearson Education Limited +44 (0) 7879 602674 ellyn.duggan@pearson.com Training Qualifications UK 03333 583 344 epa@tquk.org City and Guilds 0844 543 0000 apprenticeships@cityandguilds.com NOCN 0300 999 1177 managing.director@nocn.org.uk Innovate Awarding Limited 0117 3142800 contactus@innovateawarding.org - More Information
The Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education has more detailed information about this apprenticeship.