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SSOC 2024 unit

Other Services & Public Administration Verified · 21 Mar 2024

96253

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 nameSingapore Standard Industrial Classification (SSOC 2024)
Issuing authorityDepartment of Statistics Singapore (SingStat / DOS)
Tax authorityInland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) (IRAS)
PurposeClassifies occupations in Singapore for labour statistics, workforce planning, and international reporting.
Active versionSSOC 2024 (21 Mar 2024)
Hierarchy levelUnit (final leaf, 5-digit)
Sourcehttps://www.singstat.gov.sg/standards/standards-and-classifications/ssic
Prior versionsSSIC 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

•Ÿ  Clinic attendant •Ÿ  Hospital porter

Elsewhere

•Ÿ  Hospital indoor cleaner, see 91131

Hierarchy context

9→96→962→9625→96253 Hospital/Clinic attendant

Correspondence 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.

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