This page provides information for those facilitating and/or assessing work based learning of Assistant Practitioners.
The following documents are attached to this page:
This section contains contact information for Ambassadors of the Assistant Practitioner role in the North West. You will also discover some best practice suggestions together with potential benefits of the role.
The following documents are attached to this page:
This page contains information on Assistant Practitioners across a wide range of services.
The following documents are attached to this page:
If you have implemented a new role within your service over the last year, and are seeking to establish the benefits of the role. This section includes; Role Impact Evaluation Tool to systematically gather data; case study on evaluation of the Assistant Practitioner within a hospice; report on how Assistant Practitioners can progress (including ongoing organisational implementation).
The Assistant Practitioner (AP) role was introduced more than a decade ago to address a skills shortage within the health and social care workforce. The AP is a “higher level support worker who compliments the registered staff and transcends traditional boundaries of care” (Skills for Health, 2009).
Background