Description
Book SynopsisEnglish for Health and Social Care Workers is a practical guide for anyone who works in health and social care and who does not speak English as their first language. The guide is aimed at anyone who is new to care work and working on passing their Care Certificate within 12 weeks of starting their care role. The guide is also useful for those who want to refresh their skills. This self-study guide enables social care workers to deliver appropriate levels of care by improving their spoken communication, vocabulary, grammar and report writing skills.With English for Health and Social Care Workers, speakers of other languages can be sure of raising the standard of their English language skills. Health and social care workers will gain a better working knowledge of medical terms, different medications and equipment, colloquial terms used by service users and policies and procedures used in the care environment.This book comes with accompanying audio.
Table of ContentsUnit 1: Effective communication and building relationshipsUnit 2: Personal careUnit 3: Nutrition and foodUnit 4: Manual handlingUnit 5: Dispensing & prompting medicationUnit 6: Health and safetyUnit 7: Equality and diversityUnit 8: SafeguardingUnit 9: Difficult conversationsUnit 10: Professional development
