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Community Health Assistants
Community Health Assistants are multi-skilled, providing support and assistance to the Child & Family Team.
The diverse role of the Community Health Assistant includes:
- assisting other Child & Family staff in their roles, i.e. immunisation programmes, health promotion
- provision of clerical expertise
- health resource co-ordination
- swabbing children who present with a sore throat to prevent rheumatic fever
- providing support such as transport for children, adolescents and their families to health services and clinics
