This Apprenticeship lasts 18-24 months and provides the skills and knowledge required to become competent in supporting Health Professionals (e.g. surgeons, nurses, operating department practitioners) within the operating theatre department Apprentices are employed as Perioperative support workers or theatre support workers and work alongside Health Professionals providing patient care within the hospital operating theatre department. Typical duties include caring for patients before and after their operation, checking and looking after vital equipment and keeping the operating area clean. Staff in support roles such as this, need an awareness of health and safety issues; a reassuring manner with patients and an understanding of patients’ rights to privacy and dignity. All units are mandatory •Engage in personal development •Promote communication •Promote equality and inclusion •Promote and implement health and safety •Principles of safeguarding and protection •Promote person centred approaches •The role of the health and social care worker •Promote good practice in handling information •The principles of infection prevention and control •Causes and spread of infection •Cleaning, decontamination and waste management •Principles for implementing duty of care •Transport, transfer and position individuals and equipment •Contribute to the safe use of medical devices •Assist in the delivery of perioperative care and support to individuals •Measure and record individuals’ body fluid balance •Assist in receiving, handling and dispatching clinical specimens •Provide support to the surgical team when preparing individuals for operative and invasive procedures •Perform the non scrubbed circulating role for perioperative procedures •Prepare anaesthetic environment and provide support for pre and post-operative anaesthesia and recovery
Name: Apprenticeship in Health (Perioperative Support) - Advanced Qualification title: City & Guilds Level 3 Diploma in Health (Perioperative Support). Qualification type: Apprenticeship Assessment Awarding - Created 20160805 09:37:03 Updated 20170118 09:15:49
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