Provide, supervise and coordinate high-quality and compassionate health and social care
A healthcare assistant practitioner works as part of the wider health and social care team and has direct contact with patients, service users or clients, providing high-quality and compassionate care. During the healthcare assistant practitioner apprenticeship, you’ll work toward a level above that of healthcare support workers, so you’ll develop a more in-depth understanding of factors that influence health and ill-health. As a healthcare assistant practitioner, you’ll be able to undertake a wide variety of roles across a range of areas, including cancer services, physiotherapy, genitourinary medicine, orthopaedics, hospice care, mental health, social care, community, occupational therapy and learning