Classification note
- Published code: 5321
- Hierarchy level: unit-group
- This page uses ISCO-08 as the English occupation reference layer while Thai TSCO label harmonization remains incomplete.
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Occupation hierarchy
- Major Group: 5 Service and Sales Workers
- Sub Major Group: 53 Personal Care Workers
- Minor Group: 532 Personal Care Workers in Health Services
- Unit Group: 5321 Health Care Assistants
Child groups
- No child groups are published under this code.
TSIC codes where this occupation is primary
- 26600 - Manufacture of irradiation, electromedical and electrotherapeutic equipment
- 32501 - Manufacture of medical instruments a nd supplies
- 33132 - Repair of irradiation, electromedical and electrotherapeutic equipment
- 46441 - Wholesale of pharmaceutical and medical goods
- 47721 - Retail sale of pharmaceutical and medical goods in specialized stores
- 81300 - Landscape care and maintenance service a ctivities
- 84121 - Regulation of the activities of providing health care, education, cultural services and other social services, excluding social security
- 84122 - Regulation of the activities of providing health care, education, cultural services and other social services, excluding social security
- 84123 - Regulation of the activities of providing health care, education, cultural services and other social services, excluding social security
- 84124 - Regulation of the activities of providing health care, education, cultural services and other social services, excluding social security
- 86101 - Hospital activities (except specialized hospital activities)
- 86102 - Specialized hospital activities
- 86201 - Medical and dental practice activities
- 86202 - Medical and dental practice activities
- 86203 - Medical and dental practice activities
- 86901 - Other human health activities
- 86902 - Other human health activities
- 86903 - Other human health activities
- 86909 - Other human health activities
- 87100 - Residential nursing care facilities
- 87201 - Residential care activities for mental retardation, mental health and substance abuse
- 87202 - Residential care activities for mental retardation, mental health and substance abuse
- 87203 - Residential care activities for mental retardation, mental health and substance abuse
- 87301 - Residential care activities for the elderly and disabled
- 87302 - Residential care activities for the elderly and disabled
- 87303 - Residential care activities for the elderly and disabled
- 87901 - Other residential care activities
- 87902 - Other residential care activities
- 87909 - Other residential care activities
- 88101 - Social work activities without accommodation for the elderly and disabled
- 88102 - Social work activities without accommodation for the elderly and disabled
- 88901 - Other social work activities without accommodation
- 88909 - Other social work activities without accommodation
- 96302 - Pet care activities
TSIC codes where this occupation is related
- No related TSIC mapping is published for this occupation yet.
Definition
Health care assistants provide direct personal care and assistance with activities of daily living to patients and residents in a variety of health care settings such as hospitals, clinics and residential nursing care facilities. They generally work in implementation of established care plans and practices, and under the direct supervision of medical, nursing or other health professionals or associate professionals.
Tasks include
Tasks include - (a) providing care, support and treatment to patients and residents of medical, rehabilitative and residential care facilities according to treatment plans established by medical, nursing and other health professionals; (b) assisting patients with personal and therapeutic care needs such as personal hygiene, feeding, dressing, physical mobility and exercise, communication, taking oral medications and changing dressings; (c) positioning, lifting and turning patients and transporting them in wheelchairs or on movable beds; (d) maintaining patients’ environmental hygiene standards, such as cleaning patient rooms and changing bed linen; (e) providing massage and other non-pharmacological pain relief measures, such as during pregnancy and labour; (f) observing patients condition, responses and behaviour and reporting changes to a health professional.
Included occupations or child groups
Examples of the occupations classified here: - Birth assistant (clinic or hospital) - Nursing aide (clinic or hospital) - Patient care assistant - Psychiatric aide
Excluded occupations
Some related occupations classified elsewhere: - Nurse (professional) - 2221 - Nurse (associate professional) - 3221 - Ambulance worker - 3258 - Nursing aide (home) - 5322
Notes
Workers who provide personal care to residents of institutions and facilities that have permanent medical or nursing supervision (such as hospitals, rehabilitation centres, residential nursing care facilities and nursing homes), and therefore work under the direct supervision of nurses, medical doctors or other health professionals or associate professionals are classified in Unit Group 5321: Health Care Assistants. Workers who provide personal care to residents of independent living units, generally without permanent medical or nursing supervision, should be classified in Unit Group 5322: Home-based personal care workers. In general, workers classified in Minor Group 532: Personal Care Workers in Health Services, do not perform tasks requiring extensive medical knowledge or training, such as administering medications and cleaning and dressing wounds: where tasks of this type are performed they are of a simple and routine nature.
ISCO-88 correspondence
- 5132