{"id":12331,"date":"2020-07-03T16:08:52","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T15:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stockportccg.nhs.uk\/practicehub\/?page_id=12331"},"modified":"2023-08-02T14:49:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T13:49:09","slug":"health-care-assistant-b2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/workforce-development\/non-medical-career-pathway\/health-care-assistant-b2\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Care Assistant (B2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_custom_1584626911080 vc_row-has-fill\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<p><strong>Summary of Qualification\/Training:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Care Certificate<\/span> &#8211; Anybody moving into a Health Care Assistant Role should complete the Care Certificate &#8211; please see the General Practice Learning &amp; Development Portfolio for details of how to access this.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Health Care Assistant Fundamentals<\/span> &#8211;\u00a0Completion of the Health Care Assistant Fundamentals (2 day course plus competency sign off in the practice) would be beneficial.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Clinical Study Days<\/span> &#8211; a range of clinical study sessions are available on a regular basis such as blood pressure monitoring and ECG. These can be accessed as required. Details are in the Portfolio.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Functional Skills<\/span> &#8211; HCAs who are looking to develop their skills further and who do not already have a level 2 qualification in maths and English should consider undertaking a functional skills course as this will then enable them to access Nurse Associate and Registered Nurse programmes, again details are in the Portfolio.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Apprenticeship in Health and Social Care<\/span> &#8211; this can be completed at level 2 or level 3.\u00a0 Please see the &#8216;Apprenticeships&#8217; page (which is in this section of the Practice Hub) for more information.\u00a0 It is usually necessary for anybody undertaking the apprenticeship to work a minimum of 30 hours per week.\u00a0 Some providers will allow those working less hours to complete an apprenticeship but it will take longer than 18 months.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cost:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The majority of the training available is free for all those working in Stockport General Practice.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid vc_custom_1584626911080 vc_row-has-fill\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element \" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n   ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Summary of Qualification\/Training: Care Certificate - Anybody moving into a Health Care Assistant Role should complete the Care Certificate - please see the General Practice Learning [...]","protected":false},"author":610,"featured_media":0,"parent":12322,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12331"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21997,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12331\/revisions\/21997"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stockportpracticehub.co.uk\/practicehub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}