Mandeep Kaur Sohal Health and Social Care Unit 11
In Health and social care we have been asked to find information and produce a report expressing and assessing the two job roles in this unit. I have chosen to evaluate Radiographers and Social Worker. I will create a report in detail about these individual job roles, that will include resources collected from various places which assist contrast these job roles. To explain what the job is like and their pay I will utilise job adverts for both if he job roles due to they provide vital information.
Sector and funding sources
There are three sectors in which people can be influenced by depending on their job. The job roles I have chosen Radiologists and Social Worker belong to the Statutory Sector of the Employment Sector. However Radiologists can belong to the primary care trusts. They work to provide the people the services needed depending on their requests. The statutory sector provides them with services they are entitled to such as having an operation. Everyone has the opportunity so therefore ignoring the race, age, disability, gender, sexual orientation or religion.
The statutory consists of organisations that are situated by the Acts of Parliament which therefore are funded and taken care of by them. Taking into account the social services are vital in this sector but a lot of money is spent on them. The funding for these services comes from taxation such as council tax, income tax and national insurance.
- Rise in money spent on social care services
“18.2 billion In 2004-05
8 per cent up on previous year”
“Significantly more money is being spent on social care services for adults and children, nearly doubling in real terms1 over the past 10 years, according to a report published today by the Health and Social Care Information Centre. Annual social care gross, current expenditure by councils last year raised to 18.2 billion from 16.8 billion in 2003-04, an increase of 8% in cash terms. In the ten years from 1994-95 expenditure grew by almost double in real terms1 (from 7.5 billion). Provision of care and support for the 1.2 million older people who needed to use social care services during 2004-05 accounted for 44% of total expenditure (8 billion) a rise of 8% on the previous year.”
( HYPERLINK "http://www.ic.nhs.uk/news-and-media/press-releases/april-2005--march-2006/rise-in-money-spent-on-social-care-services" http://www.ic.nhs.uk/news-and-media/press-releases/april-2005--march-2006/rise-in-money-spent-on-social-care-services)
Children and families are been given 25 per cent of funding for social services. 43% of the payments are spent on the older people, 16% are for the adults with learning disabilities, 7% for the physically disabled adults, 5% of adults are with mental health problems and other adult services receive 2%.
Funding the NHS
In the guardian it says there’s extra money that the NHS received. They have spent from £65 billion on health in 2002-03 to £90 billion in 2006. They said in 2007 it will be £99 billion almost three times as much in 1997. Consequently the NHS receive a lot of money, however some 60% is used to forfeit the staff, 20% goes towards drugs and other supplies. The money that received to the NHS comes directly through taxation.
Employer:
Ill be referring to the job adverts (appendix section) and the radiographers are likely to be employed by the NHS trusts where 50% work in hospitals, while most of the rest worked in offices of doctors, diagnostic laboratories, and outpatient care centers. However there is more than one employer may employ social workers. Social workers are employed by, Private sector nursing homes, Primary care trusts, General Practitioners, Hospitals, Voluntary and independent agencies and The social service departments of local authorities.
Radiographers and social workers don’t meet the same people.
The main duties for a Radiographer and a Social Worker:
The main duties for a radiographer use radiation equipment to construct images of the organs, issues, bones, and vessels of the body, as given by the doctors to support in the diagnosis of disease or injury. Radiographers continually make every effort to provide quality patient care and try limiting radiation exposure to patients, themselves, and others. They explain the procedures to patients, remove patients' clothing and jewelry, and place patients in the appropriate positions. The Radiologist will provide well-organised, successful and professional radiology services.
