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Career Guidance Skills assisting and caring S3.6 - providing general personal care S3.6.2 - assisting with personal needs Provide basic support to patients
Description
Support patients and citizens with activities of daily living, such as hygiene, comfort, mobilisation and feeding needs.
Occupations requiring this skill
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Skill demand overview
- Essential in 2 occupations
- Optional in 1 occupations
- Total: 3 occupations
- Most common in: ISCO major group 5 (Service and sales workers)
Essential for
- Maternity support workerMaternity support workers work together in a team with midwives and health professionals within the occupational fields of nursing and midwifery. They assist midwives and women in …
- Nurse assistantHealthcare 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 assi…
Optional for
- Hospital porterHospital porters are professional healthcare assistants who transport people on stretchers around the hospital site, as well as and items. Duties Hospital porters typically do the …
Related skills
- Follow clinical guidelines
- Deal with emergency care situations
- Interact with healthcare users
- Comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- Ensure safety of healthcare users
- Human anatomy
- Comply with legislation related to health care
- Monitor basic patients signs
- Listen actively
- Communicate with nursing staff
- First aid
- Hygiene in a health care setting
Last updated on February 18, 2026
