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Nurse
Nurses give care, advice and support to adults who are sick, injured or have physical disabilities.
Nurse
Role Description
Skills required
You'll need:
- excellent organisational and time management skills
- good practical skills
- the ability to inspire confidence and trust in people
- the ability to remain calm under pressure
- good teamwork skills and the ability to work on your own initiative
- excellent listening and communication skills
What you'll do
You'll work in hospitals, nursing homes, health centres, clinics or prisons.
In an NHS hospital you could work in accident and emergency, cardiac rehabilitation, outpatients, neonatal nursing or an operating theatre.
Your day-to-day duties could include:
- taking temperatures, blood pressures and pulse rates
- helping doctors with physical examinations
- giving drugs and injections
- cleaning and dressing wounds
- setting up drips and blood transfusions
- using medical equipment
- checking patients' progress
- working with doctors to decide what care to give
- advising patients and their relatives
- handling confidential information

Salary Guide
Minimum: £22000
Maximum: £48000

Nursery Assistant
Nursery workers help babies and children up to 5 years old to develop and learn in a safe and supportive environment.
Nursery Assistant
Role Description
Skills required
You'll need:
- excellent communication skills
- the ability to work with children and their families in a sensitive and positive way
- creativity and imagination for game playing
- planning and organisational skills
- IT skills
What you'll do
Your day-to-day tasks will include:
- planning and supervising activities like arts and crafts, music and cooking
- helping children to learn numeracy and language skills through games
- taking children on outings
- feeding and changing babies
- observing children and making notes to write reports
- making sure children are safe and well
- With experience, you could become a key worker for one or more children. You'll monitor their progress and share information about their development with parents or carers.

Salary Guide
Minimum: £14000
Maximum: £24000