Although social care workers are allowed to receive the Covid vaccine, some professionals in the field are not currently eligible, such as teachers, nursery/preschool staff and unpaid carers.
Here's a break down of exactly who can get the jab:
Social care
- Care worker
- Personal Assistant
- Rehabilitation, reablement, enablement worker
- Shared lives Carer
- Team leader or supervisor
- Specialist coordinator, such as Dementia or end of life care coordinator
- Housing support
- Social care prescriber/Care Navigator
- Welfare rights
- Employment advisor
- Cook or Kitchen assistant
- Housekeeping or domestic worker
- Driver
- Maintenance
- Social worker
- Approved Mental Health Professionals
- Occupational Therapist
- Nurse including nursing associate
- Counsellor
Frontline health care
- Doctors
- Dentists
- Midwives
- Nurses
- Paramedics and ambulance staff
- Pharmacists
- Optometrists
- Occupational therapists
- Physiotherapists and radiographers
- Those working in independent, voluntary and non-standard healthcare settings such as hospices, and community-based mental health or addiction services.
- Staff working on the Covid-19 vaccination programme
- Temporary staff, students, trainees and volunteers who are working with patients
- Receptionists, ward clerks, porters and cleaners.
- Laboratory and pathology staff
The first four priority groups can receive their vaccinations.
These are:
- Residents in a care home for older adults and staff working in care homes for older adults
- All those 80 years of age and over and frontline health and social care workers
- All those 75 years of age and over
- All those 70 years of age and over and clinically extremely vulnerable individuals (not including those under 16 years of age)
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