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What is a front-line health & social care worker?

There are two types of health & social care worker in Northern Ireland:

  • Frontline: provide health-related or social care services in acute HSC hospitals, mental health hospitals, community-based services, to individuals in their own home, in care homes or other long-term care facilities such as ambulance care, that are in direct contact with patients.
  • Non-frontline: any member of staff directly involved in the day-to-day running of the organisation and its infrastructure but not involved in direct patient care.
Updated: May 6, 2022 Posted: October 1, 2021