Analysis of Care Worker Responsibilities in Health & Social Care

This report provides an overview of the roles and responsibilities of care workers in health and social care settings, emphasizing the importance of following agreed ways of working, understanding the differences between professional and personal relationships, and adhering to the guidelines set by regulators and advisors. It highlights key responsibilities such as providing care and support to patients, assisting individuals with mental disabilities or addiction, and contributing to quality assurance processes to promote positive experiences for those receiving care. The report also discusses how to access details of agreed ways of working and the significance of quality assurance in ensuring high-quality service delivery that meets the unique needs and preferences of individuals, ultimately improving patient outcomes and promoting their well-being.

Responsibilities of care
worker
in health and social care

Table of
content

Introduction
 Roles and responsibilities in health and social care settings .
 Ways in which a working relationship is different from a personal relationship .
 The role of regulators and advisors within health and social care .
 Why it is important to follow agreed ways of working.
 How to access details of agreed ways of working?
 How to contribute to quality assurance processes to promote positive experiences for
individuals receiving care .
 Conclusion

References

Introducti
on
 Working in health and social care defined as the
means to
have a role and responsibilities to make the care for
individual
that promote their wellbeing and prevent and
restrict them
from such thing which is showing the result of harm.
 The role and responsibilities of care worker within
health and
social care to protect the patient or individual from
harm and
provide them adequate service which is focus on
improved
patient outcome.

Roles and responsibilities in health
and social
care settings.
 The health and social care worker play significant role in
the social
group and community. In addition, they also show positive
impact on
people which is around them if they create better
understanding towards
their duties (Bayham, & Fenichel, 2020). There are key
pointers which
help to elaborate the main role in health and social care
and also show
the condition which require their needs.
 Provide proper care and support to patient and their
family member.
 Provide assistance to people with mental disabilities or
distress. Improve way of living by assisting people with addiction of
alcohol and
other
drug.

Ways in which a working
relationship is
different from a personal
relationship The care worker usually works in workplace with
some of
adequate that follow the professional
relationship.
 It is comparatively differing from the personal
relationship
because the professional working has some ethics
and rule that
must be followed by care worker in their
professional
relationship such as equality, non-discrimination
and other
aspect which is different form personal
relationship (Cox,
2020).

The role of regulators and
advisors within
health and social care
 The main role of regulator within the health and social care
is that they
monitor compliance with contractual obligation to the bodies
that is related
with government and user.
 Therefore, there are other legal and regulatory
requirement. They
established technical alliance, safety and act as precursor
who promote
quality of health. On other hand, advisor also play role in health and social
care that they
participate in evaluation and communication for medical
information
related with the product and equipment which is used in
healthcare (Frost

Why it is important to follow agreed
ways of
working
 The agreed ways of working which
include
policies and process that elaborate
about
employee or care worker towards the
supporting
the individual who need to take care and
support
set out in their care plan and other
policies such
as moving and handling which is well
related
with health and safety and safeguarding.

How to access details of agreed
ways of
working?
 Communicate
clearly.
 Read and understand the information in the
clear ways.
 They also apply policies and procedure in their own role that
define the
work.
 Understand the key term in health and
social care.
 Explain thought and ideas in logical that help to make the
agreed ways
of working (Grassly et. al.,
2020).

How to contribute to quality
assurance
processes to promote positive
experiences for
individuals receiving care Quality assurance is referring as the tool for ensuring the
individual
or person taking support and care in high quality
of service.
 It usually involves looking at all aspect which show the
care and
support from the planning to deliver to ensure that
it is safe,
effective and meeting the need of individual unique need
wishes and
preference.
 The high quality service usually promotes positive
experience for
individual while receiving care (Li et. al.,
2021).

Conclusio
n
 As per the above discussion, it is well analysed that
the care
worker usually plays various role in the health and
social care.
 As per this, they follow standard and guideline which
allow the
make comprehensive working that improve the
health of patient.

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