Health and Social Care Sector Work Related Learning Report Analysis

This report provides a comprehensive overview of the health and social care sector, discussing its functions, regulations, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. It analyzes the Royal London Hospital as a case study, examining its vision, mission, offered services, employer-employee structure, and stakeholders. The report further explores career pathways within the sector, highlighting professional regulatory bodies like the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and the General Medical Council (GMC), national occupational standards, and codes of conduct. The analysis includes the hospital's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, partnership structures, and the prospects for individuals entering the healthcare field, offering valuable insights into the sector's complexities and opportunities.

Work Related Learning

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Overview of literature on the health and social care sector with discussion on the wider
context of COVID-19 pandemic.................................................................................................3
Provide an example of the chosen organisation and analyse its functions and stakeholders......5
Discussion on the prospects of entering into the chosen sector as a career pathway..................7
Evidence of coherent structure and judgements made and conclusion drawn supported by
appropriate models/theories........................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10
APPENDIX....................................................................................................................................11
Training needs analysis.............................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Work related learning is the concept of educational strategy the leads to offer students
with the real life experience and also tends to apply academic and technical skills in order to
develop employability. A well structured work related learning programmes are beneficial for
students and effective work experience for the specific development of learner in both hard and
soft skills. For this, suitable working experience is useful for young people to look beyond
education and also develop understanding regarding their work and skills (Esteva and et. al.,
2019). The report tends to cover the nature of health and social care sector in broad context,
depict the suitable prospects for entering into the selected sector as the career pathway, analyse
the structure, culture and function of specific hospital and relationship among the company and
its stakeholders.
MAIN BODY
Overview of literature on the health and social care sector with discussion on the wider context
of COVID-19 pandemic
Commissioning: It is undertaken as the activity that leads to include decisions regarding
the types of services which are provide to the local populations and who tends to offer these
services to them. It also represent the joint commission which is useful in describing the methods
for the health and social care agencies in order to work collectively to identify suitable factors
(Yu and et. al., 2019). Health and social care commissioning is the exploration of the suitable
services, processes and results of the joint commissioning.
Regulations: By undertaking the COVID-19 pandemic which is the straining health
system worldwide suitable rules and regulations are demonstrated by WHO by considering the
rapid demand for the health facilities. For this, the guidelines focus on the significance of
keeping updated information that need effective transparent communication with people and
strong involvement of community in terms of maintaining trust regarding safety of people by
meeting the essential needs and take control over the infection risk in health facilities.
Levels in health care: There are three levels in health care system which are interlinked
with each other and discussed as:
Primary
 Devolved towards the municipalities and cities.

 Represent the main center of public health nurses, Physicians, traditional healers, public
health midwives and so on. Develop the first contact among the community members of the health facility.
Secondary
 Prominently given by the health facilities and owned by either government and privately
owned.
 Rendered by experts in health facilities. Offered by physicians with the prominent health training.
Tertiary
 Offer complicated case and suitable care.
 Become referral system for the secondary care facilities.
 Undertake regional and provincial hospitals, medical centers and hospitals.
Funding: There are various community foundations and organisations came by
launching funding programmes which is helpful for companies in order to respond for the
suitable challenges of Coronavirus Pandemic. There are various funding programmes which are
offered in UK by various agencies like Community radio fund, Tech for Good digital
development fund, COVID-19 Grants – Healthy holiday Grant, Aim crisis fund for independent
music contractors and so on. In regard of this, there are various large organisations and
government agencies who came and support various people by taking initiatives for offering
suitable funding as the effective relief from the pandemic by saving from disaster and providing
them basic services (Saba and et. al., 2019). Therefore, community fund is responsible in order to
promote the well-being and welfare of all the groups and the health workers work in order to
keep people safe. For this, any individual who applies for fund need to understand the
safeguarding policy by keeping in touch with funding officer. The funding project tends to
deliver activity by immediately responding for the crisis and support recovery activity and
become more resilient to respond for the future challenges.
Central and local service provider: The front line public services providers tends to offer
and effectively need to interpret the policies which are announced by government and they does
not need to coordinate with suitable communication strategy by considering local authorities and
receiving divergent messages from various government departments. In regard of this, NHS
England's Volunteer responders scheme deliver effective partnership with Royal Voluntary

service and also hired by delivering effective medicines and equipments. For this, they also tends
to drive patients from the appointments to make regular phone calls in order to check that people
are isolating them at home or not (Montenegro, da Costa and da Rosa Righi, 2019). In regard
this, England tends to entered in the COVID-19 pandemic with the public health system by
which they both are devolved and has centralised components. While central government has
promised more funding for the pandemic then the Deputy Director of Local Government
prominently told that they tends to spend money which is required by community in order to met
their needs for having early commitment (Ngiam and Khor, 2019).
Statistics of COVID-19 Pandemic in UK: The novel coronavirus was detected in the city
of Wuhan, China and currently around 73 million cases have been reported across the world.
Moreover the virus is responsible for around 1.6 million deaths worldwide and the outbreak was
declared in March 2020 by WHO.
Illustration 1: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 2020
(Source: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 2020)
Provide an example of the chosen organisation and analyse its functions and stakeholders
Vision and mission: The mission of Royal London Hospital is to become world class in
regard of offering healthcare treatment and clinical research. Moreover, there objective is to
deliver and develop local healthcare in their hospitals in order to enhance the lives of people by

helping them to thrive. Their vision is to focus on the operational improvement and efficiencies
which is useful to meet the suitable performance targets and also become possible by offering
strong role models for the staff members.
Offered services: Royal London Hospital is the center for the evidence based practice,
specialised in complex and chronic medical conditions and also undertake education and
research. For this, company tends to offer person-centred, holistic approach by considering self
care in terms of helping people to overcome their chronic medical conditions and making them
feel better (Gueldner, Feuerborn and Merrell, 2020). Currently, hospital leads to offer several
services which are required to face the COVID-19 pandemic like proper care, isolation ward,
PPE Kit, mask and other equipments. Apart from this, hospital tends to offer specialist services
as well like diabetes, infection diseases, fetal medicine, maternal medicine, private patients care
and so on.
Current care Quality commission Report: The suitable role of this commission is to
regulate the heath and social care services and for this, they tends to publish what they find
undertaking the ratings which are useful to help people to choose care. Moreover, by considering
the above report, hospital is quite effective for the suitable governance procedure in order to
underpin the provision of services (Golightley and Goemans, 2020). They also tends to observe
nursing, healthcare help, medical and allied health staff by offering compassionate and effective
care to their patients. Royal London Hospital also tends to offer mandatory training to their
medical staff in terms of remaining low for the basic life support training and undertaking the
safeguarding training as well. The report also represent the access to services and patient flow
which is continued to be the challenging for the emergency department. For this, patients also
tends to wait for the longer period before moving their staff to the appropriate ward regarding the
decision of admitting.
Employer and employee structure: This structure tends to define the suitable factor of
company by determining the working relationship among the managers and subordinates. For
this, the owner of business tends to have wide range of structure which they follow in order to
retain their workforce and it put major impact on the growth of Hospital, morale of workers and
profitability of company (Shatte, Hutchinson and Teague, 2019). In Royal London Hospital, their
employers tends to determine the type of employment structure which is best for them and also

leads to involve suitable functions like marketing, production, operations and so on which are
beneficial from the functional employee structure.
Stakeholders: Stakeholders are important for the company in order to have effective
functioning and running of hospital and also leads to develop better image in market. In regard of
this, the major stakeholders in the healthcare undertake patients, employers, insurance
companies, pharmaceutical firms and government (Kleine, Rudolph and Zacher, 2019). For this,
the insurance organisations tends to sell health coverage plans to their patients or indirectly by
governmental intermediaries. Stakeholders plays an important role in order to make sure the
success for the evidence in healthcare and they also leads to impact the opinion for public in
relation with change of project.
Partnership structures: Hospital tends to develop suitable partnership with Barts
hospitals PPP project by undertaking the new building, refurbishment of existing buildings and
equipment provision.
How to tackle COVID-19 Pandemic: Royal London Hospital tends to manage COVID-
19 Pandemic by arranging maximum number of ventilators, converting operation theatres into
wards and offering so many services quickly.
Discussion on the prospects of entering into the chosen sector as a career pathway
Career pathway: The prominent pathway is Healthcare assistant and to become it an
individual need to get through college course, apprenticeship and working for their role. For this,
suitable diploma courses are also required like certificate of work preparation for health and
social care, diploma in health and social care and national extended diploma in health and social
care (Heise and et. al., 2019). For this, Royal college of Nursing is useful in order to offer
effective training and development opportunities to people.
Role of different professional regulatory body: There are various regulatory bodies
which are discussed as: Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC): The role of NMC is to effectively protect the
health and well-being of the public by setting suitable standards for the training,
education, organise effective performance by which nurses and midwives effectively
deliver high quality healthcare services prominently in their whole career. It also tends to
protect the well-being and health of public, make sure that nurses keep their skills and

knowledge up to date and also make clear and transparent processes to research for the
NMC's standards.
 General Medical Council (GMC): The major role is to promote, maintain and protect the
health and safety of public by effectively controlling the entry in terms of registering and
suspending the suitable removing of members. It also tends to set the prominent standards
for medical schools in UK (Mukhalalati and Taylor, 2019). GMC also tends to control the
entry for Registered Medical Practitioners and exercise the functions in terms of
protecting, maintaining and promoting the health and safety of public.
National occupational standard: It depict the best practices that leads to bring collective
skills, values and knowledge. Standards are valuable tools which are set as the benchmarks for
the qualifications that leads to define suitable roles at work, supervision, staff recruitment and so
on. For Health and social care, NOS is important in order to take care of their workers and health
care workers within UK. In regard of this, there are around 200 separate NOS which are
collectively put together in order to cover all job roles for the various levels of responsibility.
Code of conduct: It leads to set the suitable standards which is expected for the adult
social care workers and healthcare support workers. It also leads to outline the behaviours and
attitudes which are need effective care and support (White, Dudley-Brown and Terhaar, 2019).
For this, the healthcare assistant tends to make sure and effectively perform standards which are
expected to meet, they also leads to check the fulfilment of the needs of their role and identify
the areas for continuous professional development.
Legislations: There are number of legislations which are followed by the healthcare
professionals including health and safety, undertaking safeguarding policy, infection control for
the COVID-19 pandemic, equal treatment of their patients and many more. In regard of this,
health and safety is important among all because it is essential that proper safety is maintained
within the premises of hospital.
Training needs analysis: Appendix 1
Evidence of coherent structure and judgements made and conclusion drawn supported by
appropriate models/theories
Stakeholders are those individuals who have prominent interest within the project and
also leads to impact their result. For this, stakeholders tends to support or resist the changes in
terms of having effective development. This analysis is the dynamic process and undertake the

prominent beginning of project by revisiting the project (Bastable and et. al., 2019). The
common stakeholders in healthcare include patients, clinical assistants, care quality commission
and local safeguarding authority which are discussed as: Patients: These are the individuals who have low power and low interest in the
functioning and policies of company. They does not have interest in the understanding of
suitable strategies and policies of hospital. Clinical assistants: These individuals has high interest but low power and authority in
the functioning and processing of hospital. For this, they tends to effectively follow the
guidelines and policies prominently in terms of having suitable functioning of hospital
regarding their interest. Care quality commission: It is a public body and the department for the health and social
care in UK and in Royal London Hospital these individuals tends to share high power but
low interest towards the hospital. They only care about the rules and standards which are
followed by the hospital in terms of making them trustworthy for the functioning. Local safeguarding authority: It is a local public body that leads to share both high
power and interest in the running of hospital. They also leads to take active participation
in the decision making process of hospital and somehow interrupt the wrong decisions
which are taken by hospital in order to protect people.
Risk Assessment: It is the most widely used screening tool within the field of having
suitable promotion of health and other multi-component health promotion programs. It leads to
undertake health related questionnaire which is useful in offering individuals with prominent
evaluation from the health risk and provide quality life (Yu and et. al., 2019). In terms of health
and social care they leads to undertake various factors like equipments, electricity in OT, proper
maintenance of hygiene and so on.
CONCLUSION
By considering the above discussion, it is identified that Work related learning is the
concept that depict the suitable learning and growth of individuals regarding the performance of
their suitable job role. In healthcare, healthcare assistant tends to undertake several standards and
norms which are beneficial for them to achieve success in their career. Besides this, stakeholders
analysis is done and impact of COVID-19 pandemic is also identified on the functioning of
hospital.

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APPENDIX
Training needs analysis
TRAINING NEEDS ASSESSMENT
Employee Name ABC
Position Title Healthcare Assistant
Purpose Career pathway
Major Training
required?
If yes what training needs
exists
How will this be achieved
Yes No
1)Diagnosis signs
symptoms
x Effective use of equipment
and machines and proper
knowledge of diseases.
It can be achieved by
proper study and
practice as the health-
care worker under any
expertise and specialist.
2) Personal Care x
3) Observing patients x Proper knowledge reading
and analyzing the mind
and situation of patient.
It can be achieved by
developing suitable
observation skills.