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The Role of Assistant Practitioner 1THE ROLE OF ASSISTANT PRACTITIONERNameUniversityCourseTutorDate
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The Role of Assistant Practitioner 2AbstractAssistant practitioner refers to a nonprofessional trained in a specific skill or role developed to assist organizations in delivering services in a variety of work settings. Assistant practitioners’ role is to support employers in areas where they have the shortage of skills or difficulties in recruitment and can provide a career pathway for junior members of the staff and also register professional roles. The essay studies the development of the assistant practitioner roles. The protocol was to be undertaken under the direct supervision of a practitioner. The aim of developing the assistant practitioner role was to enable skills escalation and to enhance the development of new roles to meet the needs of the clients and also to aid in the development of competency-based workforce planning, opportunities for individual career growth and improve the transferability of roles and skills across healthcare organizations. IntroductionAssistant practitioner refers to a worker who delivers health and social care services to people. They provide support beyond the traditional healthcare assistant and support worker as they haveacquired knowledge and skills through professional training. They can render services in the health, and only the registered professional initially does social care. The practitioners are accountable to the employer, and to the people they serve. They also take up different roles variety of areas such as word-based positions, mental health care services, and primary care positions among others (Griggs 2012, p. 328). They develop skills and prove competency in more involving clinical work. They also vary depending on the role allocated. The paper assessesthe different roles and development of assistant practitioner.
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The Role of Assistant Practitioner 3Factors influencing the development of Assistant practitioner roleAssistant practitioners have skills in particular areas of clinical practices. The demand for health and social service care has risen due to the increase in technology and need, the worsening economic climate and the increase of aging population. It has enabled a reconsideration of the workforce where health and social care services rendered. It enabled the development of assistantpractitioner role. The introduction of assistant practitioner’s role is to enable flexibility in providing service care. The role is introduced to meet local service need, and the roles do not necessarily fit in existing profession. They are developed to assist with service improvement in specific areas of specialization.According to Miller (2011, p. 23) shortage of registered staff has led to the development of an assistant practitioner post. It led to the task delegation and some roles assigned to the assistant practitioner. Difficulty in recruiting the professional staff played a key role leading to the development of the assistant practitioner post. Also, the need for new skills and workers in some areas of specialty such as difficulty in learning is a factor that influenced the development of the role of assistant practitioner due to the specific skill needed and sometimes at a specific location. The increase in capacity and cost efficiency is another factor that influenced the development of the assistant practitioner role. Assistant practitioners help attend to the clients quickly leading to increased capacity and reduction in the waiting period. The assistant practitioners were able to assist in achieving the organization goal through flexibility and increased capacity (Chouliaria, Fisher, Kerr & Walker 2014, p. 373). In rehabilitation centers, for example, the assistant practitioners freed up the professional staffs who attend to other clients as they handle the daily activities and the minor needs of clients that do not require the professional assistant. It is more cost-effective and allows the use of all skills by the staff. In the organization's departments with
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The Role of Assistant Practitioner 4the shortage of funding, they use assistant practitioners to reduce staff cost and increase efficiency (Allen, McAleavy &Wright 2012, p. 18). Technology and automation of some duties in scientific areas have led to the development of assistant practitioner role. Technology has enabled them to work unsupervised and sometimes deliver services remotely which initially only a professional could do. The role was developed sothat service users can receive help remotely and only seek supervision when necessary through the use of technology. These enable efficiency in attending to clients and patients do not have to go to the clinics to get service.The need to integrate health and social care has also led to the development of the role of an assistant practitioner. More care moved from the primary base to community-based enabling the skilled professionals to continue with other demanding, and technical tasks as the assistant practitioners provide the service care at the community levels (Spilsbury, Stuttard, Adamson, Atkin, Borgli, McCaughan, Mckenna, Wakefield and Carr-Hill 2009, p. 5).The assistant practitioner role was piloted in the health and social care service as a way to improve the service offered. For example, during the development of the cancer plan, it recognized that the workforce was short of the capacity to deliver the key priorities needed to improve the provision of cancer services. They were committed to reducing the extent of the screening programme and also to reduce waiting times for diagnosis and treatment of all cancer types. It led to the development of the assistant practitioner role to assist in delivering much-needed service.For health facilities to achieve some of its goals, it was recognized that they need to expand the workforce and that led to the development of the assistant practitioner role (Miller 2011, p. 22). There was a concept of service delivery developed that composed of four tiers; the assistant
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