Master Care Ltd.
Specialist Tasks
From time-to-time care workers may be asked to undertake some tasks, which may be specialist tasks. These tasks may be undertaken following appropriate risk assessments and only after specific training. The care worker will be trained in the procedure before undertaking the tasks with the person with care needs by a trainer with a relevant qualification, e.g., occupational therapist, speech therapist, or nurse. Such tasks may include:
- Assisting with artificial feeding
- Changing sterile dressings
- Catheter care - changing bags, monitoring output
- Tracheotomy care – oral suctioning
- Assistance with eye or ear drops
- Ileostomy and colostomy care
- changing of bags
Care workers will not undertake tasks that require the skills and expertise of clinical professionals. Such tasks include:
- Toenail cutting
- Ear syringing
- Removing or replacing urinary catheters
- Bowel evacuations
- Bladder washouts
- Injections – involving assembling syringes, administering intravenously, controlled drugs
- Filling of oxygen cylinders
- Lifting from the floor unaided
- Tracheotomy care – changing tubes These are more practical tasks and are most likely to be carried out by the carer on behalf of the Service User, due to the inability to carry out these tasks themselves on their own.
