Healthcare science associate

Knowledge

K1: The legislation, standard operating procedures, codes of conduct and ways of working that apply to own role. Back to Duty

K2: The scope of own role, including the limitations of own competence and that of others in your team. Back to Duty

K3: The importance of probity, honesty and integrity in professional practice. Back to Duty

K4: The importance of mental health, wellbeing and resilience of yourself and your team. Back to Duty

K5: Underpinning healthcare science relevant to own role and services provided. Back to Duty

K6: The methods and techniques for resolving problems. Back to Duty

K7: The principles of equipment management. Back to Duty

K8: The importance of Standard Operating Procedures and the requirements for drafting them and keeping them up to date. Back to Duty

K9: The principles of critical evaluation of the evidence base that underpins own technical practice. Back to Duty

K10: A range of different data presentation methods appropriate for the audience or circumstances including digital considerations. Back to Duty

K11: The principles of person-centred care. Back to Duty

K12: The principles of a ‘duty of care’ and safeguarding. Back to Duty

K13: The rights of individuals and own role with regard to informed consent. Back to Duty

K14: Key factors influencing dignity, rights, privacy and confidentiality. Back to Duty

K15: Technical investigations appropriate to clinical conditions encountered within scope of own role. Back to Duty

K16: Technical information and appropriate ways to present it including the use of digital technology. Back to Duty

K17: The importance of active listening, observation, the use of language and feedback. Back to Duty

K18: Barriers to communication and techniques for addressing them. Back to Duty

K19: The importance of information governance and the legislation and protocols that apply to own role and your team members. Back to Duty

K20: Confidentiality of consultation/medical records and the limits of the concept of confidentiality. Back to Duty

K21: Best practice for presenting information including the use of digital resources. Back to Duty

K22: The policy and procedure for complaints and difficult situations. Back to Duty

K23: The importance of working within the wider healthcare team and how healthcare science impacts on the wider delivery of services. Back to Duty

K24: The principles for planning, agreeing and checking the work of the team in line with protocols. Back to Duty

K25: Where to go for help and support about anything related to own and the team’s work. Back to Duty

K26: The principles of leadership and teamworking. Back to Duty

K27: Why it is important to be aware of own strengths, limitations and behaviours and how these affect colleagues and the wider team. Back to Duty

K28: Legislation and policies relating to health and safety at work and own responsibilities. Back to Duty

K29: The meaning and implications of ‘risk’ and ‘risk assessment’, including the importance of disseminating findings and protocols for implementing outcomes. Back to Duty

K30: What to do in situations that could cause harm to self or others such as critical incidents. Back to Duty

K31: The principles of safe lifting and handling of individuals, equipment or other items. Back to Duty

K32: Infection prevention and control requirements relevant to own role. Back to Duty

K33: The hazardous materials and substances in own workplace and ways to manage them safely. Back to Duty

K34: The principles of training others in health, safety and security practices relevant to own role. Back to Duty

K35: Quality management, improvement, and audit within own area of practice. Back to Duty

K36: The governance and ethical framework applied to audit and its contribution to patient care. Back to Duty

K37: Audit or service outcomes and the importance of continuous improvements. Back to Duty

K38: The benefits of evidence, evaluation, innovation or research to healthcare science practice. Back to Duty

K39: The importance of developing and introducing innovation and sustainability into practice. Back to Duty

K40: The importance of critical reflection in helping maintain and support the quality and safety of patient care. Back to Duty

K41: The scope of own role and the importance of continuing personal and professional development. Back to Duty

K42: The principles of mentoring practice and the underpinning theories of mentoring. Back to Duty

K43: The importance of appraisal, performance review and preparing action plans. Back to Duty

K44: The principles underpinning the practical training of others in techniques and procedures. Back to Duty

Skills

S1: Act in line with legislation, standard operating procedures, codes of conduct and ways of working that apply to own role. Back to Duty

S2: Work within the scope of the role, the limits of own knowledge and skills and support others to do the same. Back to Duty

S3: Act in line with probity requirements and support others to do the same. Back to Duty

S4: Promote mental health, wellbeing and resilience in the workplace. Back to Duty

S5: Provide technical healthcare-science-based services relevant to own role. Back to Duty

S6: Recognise problems and seek technical solutions to them and support others to do the same. Back to Duty

S7: Perform a range of equipment management activities appropriate to own role including fault-finding, preventative maintenance, calibration or repair. Back to Duty

S8: Contribute to the drafting or revising of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). Back to Duty

S9: Support decisions made to initiate, continue, modify or cease using techniques or procedures. Back to Duty

S10: Analyse, interpret, record and present healthcare science technical data. Back to Duty

S11: Provide or support the provision of person-centred care. Back to Duty

S12: Take responsibility for any care provided by yourself and your team members including adhering to duty of care and safeguarding requirements. Back to Duty

S13: Apply policy and protocols that relate to informed consent. Back to Duty

S14: Protect the dignity, rights, privacy and confidentiality of individuals and support others to do the same. Back to Duty

S15: Deliver or support the delivery of high quality technical clinical procedures in the investigation or management of individuals. Back to Duty

S16: Convey information using appropriate techniques. Back to Duty

S17: Give and receive feedback that informs your own practice and that of others in the team. Back to Duty

S18: Use techniques to reduce communication barriers and support others to do the same. Back to Duty

S19: Keep accurate, confidential records and produce reliable data, inputting and retrieving information within required governance processes and checking that others do the same. Back to Duty

S20: Share information correctly as part of the healthcare science team and the multi-professional team. Back to Duty

S21: Use technology to present information. Back to Duty

S22: Follow protocols for dealing with or reporting difficult situations and complaints. Back to Duty

S23: Work as part of the healthcare science team and the wider healthcare team to provide healthcare science services. Back to Duty

S24: Plan, review and report on the work of a team and individuals within it. Back to Duty

S25: Follow delegation, reporting and escalation protocols appropriate to own role. Back to Duty

S26: Demonstrate leadership skills appropriate to own role and work in partnership with the healthcare science and wider healthcare team. Back to Duty

S27: Help create the conditions that assist the team in providing a supportive environment for colleagues. Back to Duty

S28: Maintain and check that others maintain a safe and healthy working environment. Back to Duty

S29: Participate in the management of risk, supporting others to do the same. Back to Duty

S30: Take appropriate action in response to incidents or emergencies, reporting or escalating as required by the situation. Back to Duty

S31: Move and transport items safely for example individuals or equipment and items. Back to Duty

S32: Adhere to protocols for infection prevention and control and support others to do the same. Back to Duty

S33: Follow guidelines and procedures for handling hazardous materials and substances. Back to Duty

S34: Demonstrate relevant health, safety or security practices to others in the team. Back to Duty

S35: Take part in quality management technical audit processes relevant to own role. Back to Duty

S36: Participate in audit or service improvement programmes. Back to Duty

S37: Share the outcome of audit or service improvement with others. Back to Duty

S38: Support the improvement of healthcare science practice by taking part in innovation or research or service improvement activities. Back to Duty

S39: Undertake audit, research or other activities which support quality improvement, innovation and sustainability in healthcare science. Back to Duty

S40: Critically reflect on your technical and non-technical practice and how it impacts on the quality and safety of patient care. Back to Duty

S41: Work within the limits of your personal competence, keeping up-to-date by engaging in continuing personal and professional development. Back to Duty

S42: Take part in mentoring processes with colleagues and students. Back to Duty

S43: Respond to appraisal or performance review and feedback in relation to your own development and action plans. Back to Duty

S44: Supervise and demonstrate practical skills to others. Back to Duty

Behaviours

B1: Treat people with dignity. Back to Duty

B2: Champion equality and diversity. Back to Duty

B3: Show compassion, respect and empathy. Back to Duty

B4: Be honest, conscientious and committed. Back to Duty

B5: Committed to continuously developing their own professional practice. Back to Duty

B6: Committed to working to the standards of good scientific practice for the Healthcare science professions. Back to Duty