Elements and Performance Criteria
- Elements define the essential outcomes
- Provide relevant information to clients
- Prepare for therapy session
- Confirm and discuss therapy and treatment plans and programs with supervising allied health professional
- Obtain information from relevant sources according to organisation policies and supervising allied health professional
- Check resources and equipment required for therapy program to ensure suitability and working order
- Recognise and minimise environmental hazards in accordance with organisation requirements
- Prepare the client for therapy under direction of supervising allied health professional
- Provide assistance with therapy session
- Assist with therapy tasks according to instructions of allied health professional
- Maintain general therapy precautions
- Seek clarification and feedback
- Take appropriate actions to ensure comfort, safety and privacy of the client
- Reinforce, clarify and explain therapy goals to clients under supervision of allied health professional
- Support and coach clients to achieve identified therapy goals under supervision of allied health professional
- Deal with accidents and incidents appropriately and report to the supervising allied health professional
- Use therapy equipment correctly and safely
- Feedback appropriate therapy information to supervising allied health professional
- Assist in the design and construction of simple therapy materials and equipment
- Complete required administrative duties
- Work with a primary health care approach
- Support and facilitate the involvement of the client and the community in the planning and provision of services according to instruction of supervising allied health professional
- Promote good health and a preventive approach to maintaining health as part of own work role
- Demonstrate recognition of and support for the importance of access and equity in provision of health services in line with own work role
- Reflect evidence based practice in own provision of health care services