English for Health and Social Care Workers by Ros Wright and Richard Cresswell, from Pavilion Publishing and Media

English 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.

English for Health and Social Care Workers is for health and social care workers for whom English is a second language. This includes adult social workers, care home managers, care home assistants, health care assistants, health visitors, and anyone who supports clinical roles where there is direct contact with patients.

ISBN: 9781911028079
Publisher: Pavilion Publishing and Media
Publication: 01 January 2017

Content:

Unit 1: Effective communication and building relationships

Unit 2: Personal care

Unit 3: Nutrition and food

Unit 4: Manual handling

Unit 5: Dispensing & prompting medication

Unit 6: Health and safety

Unit 7: Equality and diversity

Unit 8: Safeguarding

Unit 9: Difficult conversations

Unit 10: Professional development

Ros Wright has focused on English for Medical Purposes (EMP) since 1998. Ros trained qualified doctors to pass the US component of the US medical equivalency exam. She has since co-authored several EMP titles including Good Practice: Communication Skills in English for the Medical Practitioner, which won the 2008 BESIG-David Riley Award for Innovation in ESP. Ros holds an MA in ELT Materials Development, is twice President of TESOL France and is currently member of both the Proposals and Conference Committees of IATEFL. Ros previously taught English in France and Japan.

Richard Cresswell has worked in Health and Social Care for over 20 years as a Registered Care Home Manager for people with learning disabilities and more recently as a Trainer, Assessor, Internal and External Verifier for various QCF Qualifications. Richard is a Qualified Teacher in Learning and Skills (QTLS) and is the Director of PortWell UK a training and assessment company specialising in delivering training and qualifications to those working in the health and social care field.