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Health and Social Care

Improving the quality of life for clients by working closely with the medical profession to provide care, recuperation, and rehabilitation while promoting physical and psychosocial wellbeing.

Why is this skill important?

A health and social care practitioner offers a range of support to individual clients and their family and has a continuing responsibility to work professionally and interactively with the client in order to ensure their holistic care needs are met. Whilst the health and social care practitioner may work directly for the client they are normally employed by an organization within the health and social care sector. Health and social care is closely associated with the medical profession.

The health and social care practitioner works in diverse environments, including the homes of clients, hospitals, community day care, and residential and nursing homes. He or she manages health, physical, and psychosocial well-being, support of growth and development, caring and rehabilitation. The support provided is based on assessing planning, delivering, and evaluating a care programme.

Work organization and self-management, communication and interpersonal skills, problem solving, innovation and creativity, the ability to understand, empathize and work with clients to improve the quality of their life, are the universal attributes of the outstanding practitioner.

The practitioner may work in a team or alone or in both from time to time. Whatever the structure of the work, the trained and experienced practitioner takes on a high level of personal responsibility and autonomy. From accurately assessing the needs of clients through to building client relationships and delivering exceptional care for clients in a range of circumstances, every interaction matters and mistakes could have a serious, life threatening impact.

With the increasing international mobility of people, the health and social care practitioner faces rapidly expanding opportunities and challenges. For the talented assistant there are many international opportunities; however, these carry with them the need to understand and work with diverse cultures and systems/regulations. The diversity of skills associated with health and social care is therefore likely to expand.

Location

Bordeaux, France

19–22 October 2022

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Results

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Rank	Medal	Result	Competitor	Country/Region
1.	Gold	731	Noof Alshkeili	United Arab Emirates
2.	Silver	728	Yi-Shen Huang	Chinese Taipei
3.	Bronze	718	Yixin Wu	China
4.	Medallion for Excellence	708	Elizabeth Lee Wen Yu	Singapore
5.	Medallion for Excellence	705	Blanka Pal	Hungary
6.	Medallion for Excellence	702	Siriporn Tornpranee	Thailand
7.	Medallion for Excellence	700	Saraswathy Puthucode Venkiteswaran	India
7.	Medallion for Excellence	700	Linn Ahlskog	Finland
9.		689	Lisa-Marie Scheel	Germany
10.		678	Lucía CABRERA	Spain
11.		672	Tshiamo Mokgoetsi	South Africa
12.		668	Kilian Schmid	Switzerland
13.		656	Maxime GOMES	France
14.		654	Enea Jurec	Croatia