Level 3 Senior Healthcare Support Worker Apprenticeship

 

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 e.g. hospital, community, health or daycare 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.

You are required to complete the Core content and then Adult nursing support content.

How we deliver this Apprenticeship

This Apprenticeship is delivered on a one to one basis in your workplace by your own dedicated expert Clinical Healthcare tutor.

They will meet with you every month (face to face or virtually) to provide teaching and training to help you develop new knowledge and skills and guide you through the programme.

They will then assess your competence by observing you applying the new skills at work and helping you develop a portfolio of evidence to prove you have met the requirements of the Apprenticeship.

Qualifications included in this Apprenticeship

Senior Healthcare Support Worker Apprenticeship Standard

City and Guilds Level 3 Diploma in Healthcare Support

Functional Skills

Level 2 Functional Skills in English and maths (if required)

Progression

After a period of working and gaining experience, you may be able to work towards an Assistant Practitioner or Nursing Associate post or, providing you meet the entry requirements, apply to university to become a registered healthcare practitioner.