// Unit group · 5329

Personal Care Workers in Health Services Not Elsewhere Classified

This unit group covers providers of routine health and personal care support services not classified elsewhere in Minor Group 532: Personal Care Workers in Health Services. For instance, the group includes occupations such as dental aide, sterilization aide, hospital orderly, medical imaging assistant and pharmacy aide.

5 Service and Sales Workers / 53 Personal Care Workers / 532 Personal Care Workers in Health Services / All level 4

// Working conditions

BiologicalChemicalsLifting and postureViolence and stress

// Hand tools

No hand tools in this set.

cleaning and sterilizing surgical, dental and pharmaceutical instruments, bottles, beakers and other equipment

labelling drugs, chemicals and other pharmaceutical preparations and replenishing stock on shelves

lifting, turning and moving patients and transporting them in wheelchairs or on moveable beds

preparing patients for examination or treatment

setting up instrument trays, preparing materials, and assisting dentists or radiographers during procedures

exposing diagnostic X-rays.

Included occupations

Examples of the occupations classified here:
- Dental aide
- First-aid attendant
- Hospital orderly
- Medical imaging assistant
- Pharmacy aide
- Phlebotomist
- Sterilization aide

Excluded occupations

Some related occupations classified elsewhere:
- Pharmaceutical assistant - 3213
- Dental technician - 3214
- Dental assistant - 3251

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