Elements and Performance Criteria
- Elements define the essential outcomes.
- Participate in the identification of community health information needs
- Use culturally appropriate and safe communication and interaction when working with community representatives
- Engage with community to identify current health needs and priorities, and gauge effectiveness of existing health education and promotion programs
- Identify specific groups within community needing information in a particular health area
- Discuss community feedback and needs with supervisor and primary health care team in the organisation or service provider
- Plan a health promotion and education program to deliver information to community
- Use feedback from community consultation as a basis for planning community health information programs
- Work with the primary health care team to determine health information to address identified community needs
- Consult with community representatives to plan health promotion, including identifying community members to be involved in delivery
- Consider cultural practices and beliefs when determining information needs and delivery of the program
- Confirm plans for the delivery of health information program with primary health care team to ensure legislative and organisation procedures are met
- Document all details of the health information program according to organisation procedures
- Participate in the delivery of health promotion and education services
- Use culturally appropriate and safe communication and interaction to deliver health information and promote health
- Conduct health promotion and education in partnership with the community
- Ensure service delivery meets community, legislative and organisation requirements
- Ensure health promotion and education activities support clients to take a self-care approach to health and in line with individual needs and organisation and community requirements
- Participate in routine health screening services
- Explain screening procedure and purpose to client using culturally appropriate and safe communication
- Obtain feedback from client to determine whether procedure is understood and consent is given
- Make client as comfortable as possible
- Prepare screening equipment
- Assist in routine screening in line with community, legislative and organisation requirements
- Participate in the evaluation of health promotion and education services
- Consult community about the effectiveness of health promotion and education
- Ensure evaluation includes effectiveness of health promotion resources, involvement of community as a partner and community response to information provided
- Consult community to identify any obstacles to application of the information
- Discuss feedback and possible improvements with other members of the team and supervisor