Elements and Performance Criteria
- Elements define the essential outcomes
- Assess the persons wellbeing
- Provide information and resources to the person to explain social and emotional wellbeing, holistic practice and the available services and programs
- Explore the domains of wellbeing with the person, identifying strengths and strategies that keeps the person strong
- Reflect on and respond to own values, beliefs, attitudes, power and behaviours regarding wellbeing to ensure non-judgemental practice
- Clarify and respect the person’s choices, parameters and boundaries relating to topics to be discussed
- Work with the person to identify other information to gather or people to contact to add to the understanding of their social emotional wellbeing
- Determine with the person other people, including the natural supports, the person wants involved in their plans and support
- Identify, negotiate, obtain and document any consents required
- Promote physical wellbeing
- Discuss with the person their health and physical wellbeing
- Discuss with the person any health issues or potential risks to health including fitness and nutrition and encourage them to seek professional advice as required
- Identify when regular health checks were last undertaken and, according to the person’s needs, facilitate referrals or appointments
- Arrange for health assessments or medication reviews based on the person’s needs
- Proactively support and encourage the person to identify areas where physical health could be improved and develop strategies
- Promote healthy living habits using established and credible information sources
- Promote social wellbeing
- Identify and map the person’s social network, including their care network, their community participation and others that are providing the person with support
- Assess the level of social inclusion/exclusion or isolation
- Develop strategies to promote community participation and connection to extend depth or breadth of the person’s social network
- Determine the person’s current level of involvement in socially based activity and their desire to increase participation in any of these areas
- Support and regularly review social inclusion strategies
- Promote emotional wellbeing
- Promote cultural or spiritual wellbeing
- Work collaboratively to identify the person’s preferred cultural and/or spiritual values, beliefs, traditions, activities and practices
- Identify cultural and spiritual needs and activities the person wants to undertake or changes they would like to make
- Identify other people or resources required to introduce these changes
- Support the person to implement cultural/spiritual strategies and access resources
- Identify with the person and address any cultural improvements to practice
- Review the persons well being
- Recognise and celebrate progress and identify new directions and strategies as chosen by the person
- Respond flexibly and utilise contingency plans as required
- Recognise the need for specialist expertise and seek according to the person’s needs
- Evaluate effectiveness of work and service provision, gathering and acting on feedback from all relevant parties particularly the person receiving service
- Reflect on own practice and use learning to identify strategies and plan for improved practice
- Engage in collaborative record keeping