Occupation Atlashealthcare assistant
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/d38c2107-98f2-47b7-8bb4-f69750d51082
healthcare assistant
Healthcare assistants work in teams of nurses within the occupational fields of nursing, social care, clinical care and care of people of all age-groups. Healthcare assistants assist in the promotion and restoration of patients' health by providing physical and psychological support to patients, friends and families.
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Job Zone
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Zone 3: Medium Preparation Needed
Medium preparation. Vocational training, related on-the-job experience, or an associate degree, with one to two years of training that combines experience and informal instruction.
Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.
Occupational interest profile
RCSRealistic · Conventional · Social — the three strongest interests, in order
- R Realistic5.70
- C Conventional4.40
- S Social3.84
- I Investigative3.45
- E Enterprising1.78
- A Artistic1.00
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Surgical Assistants (29-9093.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its close O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (32)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- accept own accountability
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- advise on healthcare users' informed consent
- apply organisational techniques
- communicate with nursing staff
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- contribute to continuity of health care
- convey medical routine information
- deal with emergency care situations
- develop a collaborative therapeutic relationship
- educate on the prevention of illness
- empathise with the healthcare user
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- follow clinical guidelines
- have computer literacy
- identify abnormalities
- inform policy makers on health-related challenges
- interact with healthcare users
- listen actively
- manage healthcare users' data
- monitor basic patients signs
- promote inclusion
- provide basic support to patients
- provide health education
- respond to changing situations in health care
- support nurses
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- work in a multicultural environment in health care
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
- work under supervision in care
- work with nursing staff
Optional (14)
- assist in the administration of medication to elderly
- communicate in foreign languages with health service providers
- disability care
- disability types
- distribute meals to patients
- evaluate older adults' ability to take care of themselves
- geriatrics
- older adults' needs
- perform cleaning duties
- sterilization techniques
- support individuals to adjust to physical disability
- use foreign languages for health-related research
- use foreign languages in patient care
- use technical equipment for sterilisation
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
Closest occupations
Compare any occupation →ESCO occupations that share the most of this occupation's 32 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
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