SSOC 2024 unit
Other Services & Public Administration Verified · 21 Mar 202496253
Hospital/Clinic attendant
Hospital/Clinic attendant assists in care of hospital patients under the direction of nursing and medical staff. He/she bathes, dresses patients, serves and collects food trays, feeds patients requiring help and transports patients to treatment units using wheel-chair or wheeled carriage or assists them to walk. He/she also dusts and cleans patients’ room, cleans, sterilises, stores, prepares and issues dressing packs, treatment trays and other supplies.
Level
unit
Mapped ISCO
1
Source
SingStat
In this unit group: sibling units
Official data
| Official name | Singapore Standard Industrial Classification (SSOC 2024) |
| Issuing authority | Department of Statistics Singapore (SingStat / DOS) |
| Tax authority | Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) (IRAS) |
| Purpose | Classifies occupations in Singapore for labour statistics, workforce planning, and international reporting. |
| Active version | SSOC 2024 (21 Mar 2024) |
| Hierarchy level | Unit (final leaf, 5-digit) |
| Source | https://www.singstat.gov.sg/standards/standards-and-classifications/ssic |
| Prior versions | SSIC 2020, SSIC 2015 |
Definition & tasks
Hospital/Clinic attendant assists in care of hospital patients under the direction of nursing and medical staff. He/she bathes, dresses patients, serves and collects food trays, feeds patients requiring help and transports patients to treatment units using wheel-chair or wheeled carriage or assists them to walk. He/she also dusts and cleans patients’ room, cleans, sterilises, stores, prepares and issues dressing packs, treatment trays and other supplies.
Tasks
No tasks listed.
Examples
Under this unit
• Clinic attendant • Hospital porter
Elsewhere
• Hospital indoor cleaner, see 91131
Hierarchy context
Major group
9 CLEANERS, LABOURERS AND RELATED WORKERSMinor group
962 PORTERS, ATTENDANTS AND RELATED WORKERSUnit group
9625 AttendantsCorrespondence tables
SSOC 2020
- 96253 — Hospital/Clinic attendant
ISCO-08
- 9629 — Elementary workers not elsewhere classified
Alphabetical index entries
Data source: Department of Statistics Singapore (SingStat / DOS) (https://www.singstat.gov.sg/standards/standards-and-classifications/ssic). Official SSOC 2024 workbooks.
Last refresh: 21 Mar 2024. Version: SSOC 2024.