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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Elements define the essential outcomes.
2. Develop positive relationships with women
   • Provide regular contact opportunities for women in the community
   • Provide opportunities for women to voice their opinions in a safe and supported environment
   • Advocate for the rights and needs of women in the community
3. Promote healthy lifestyle practices
   • Provide information on sexual, reproductive and women’s health to address identified individual and community needs
   • Discuss sexual practices and attitudes in relation to their impact on sexual and reproductive health and emotional wellbeing
   • Explain methods of contraception within a cultural context
   • Work within a multidisciplinary team to promote healthy sexual and lifestyle practices
4. Identify and discuss women’s health and wellbeing
   • Identify and explain issues relevant to women’s health and wellbeing
   • Provide advice about individual women’s health issues in line with organisational guidelines
   • Provide emotional support to women and families as appropriate
   • Identify and discuss risk factors for women and refer to appropriate support agencies as required
   • Deliver, implement and monitor care for women as per health management protocol in accordance with legislative guidelines
   • Work with a team to deliver effective health promotion and education for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander women using appropriate facilitation, problem-solving and instructional practices
5. Identify and discuss women’s sexual health
   • Explain risk factors and indicators of sexually transmissible infections (STIs)
   • Identify and explain methods of basic management for STIs
   • Prepare and present HIV/AIDS information within an STI context at a community level
   • Explain principles and procedures of HIV/AIDS testing and provide information as required
   • Explain interventions to address issues relating to STIs in the community as required
   • Provide advice about sexual and reproductive health issues in line with community needs and organisational guidelines
   • Provide information about resources available in the community and state in relation to addressing sexual and reproductive health issues
   • Make appropriate referrals to address identified STIs, HIV and sexual and reproductive health issues
   • Maintain confidentiality to reflect community and organisation guidelines and in line with notification requirements
6. Identify and discuss women’s health and wellbeing
   • Identify and explain issues relevant to women’s health and wellbeing
   • Provide advice about individual women’s health issues in line with organisational guidelines
   • Provide emotional support to women and families as appropriate
   • Identify and discuss risk factors for women and refer to appropriate support agencies as required
   • Deliver, implement and monitor care for women as per health management protocol in accordance with legislative guidelines
   • Work with a team to deliver effective health promotion and education for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander women using appropriate facilitation, problem-solving and instructional practices
7. Identify and discuss women’s sexual health
   • Explain risk factors and indicators of sexually transmissible infections (STIs)
   • Identify and explain methods of basic management for STIs
   • Prepare and present HIV/AIDS information within an STI context at a community level
   • Explain principles and procedures of HIV/AIDS testing and provide information as required
   • Explain interventions to address issues relating to STIs in the community as required
   • Provide advice about sexual and reproductive health issues in line with community needs and organisational guidelines
   • Provide information about resources available in the community and state in relation to addressing sexual and reproductive health issues
   • Make appropriate referrals to address identified STIs, HIV and sexual and reproductive health issues
   • Maintain confidentiality to reflect community and organisation guidelines and in line with notification requirements

Performance Evidence

The candidate must show evidence of the ability to complete tasks outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit, manage tasks and manage contingencies in the context of the job role.

There must be evidence that the candidate has:

communicated effectively in a group and one-on-one environment to promote healthy practices and discuss health issues on at least three separate occasions

provided information and strategies to support the health of at least three women. This includes:

- taking a sexual history

- providing accurate and relevant information and guidance about women’s sexual health in line with identified individual and community needs on at least three separate occasions, including:

o explaining concepts related to sexuality, including:

- sexuality and human sexual response

- sexual behaviour

- at-risk sexual behaviour

- sexual discrimination

o explaining and demonstrating purpose and methods of contraception

- informing clients about STIs including history, transmission, prevention, investigations, management, complications, contact tracing and confidentiality

- exploring, reflecting on and clarifying personal experience and values in relation to sexuality

- making referrals at an appropriate time and to an appropriate person in relation to specific STIs.

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Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must be able to demonstrate essential knowledge required to effectively do the task outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit, manage the task and manage contingencies in the context of the identified work role

This includes knowledge of:

organisation policies and procedures and legislation or regulations relating to:

- client confidentiality

- referral, including various levels of urgency, and follow-up of clients

- mandatory reporting

- notifiable communicable diseases

- limits of own ability and authority

- reporting procedures

- documentation

anatomy and physiology of sexual/reproductive organs

strategies to support women’s health and wellbeing

health prevention screening options for early identification of women’s health issues

impact and treatment of conditions affecting women’s health and wellbeing, e.g. breast screening, cervical screening, domestic violence, sexual assault, menopause, vaginal prolapse and continence issues

healthy sexual behaviours such as:

- safe-sex practices

- contraception

- influence of alcohol and other drug use on sexual behaviours

sexually transmissible infections, including:

- description/definition, statistics, signs and symptoms, universal precautions, common STIs, notifiable STIs

- history of STI in the Aboriginal community and effects of STIs on the community

- transmission, testing and complications related to STIs

- impact on the ability of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women to have children

- contact tracing/ partner notification

- available ways to prevent, manage and/or treat these diseases

risk factors for contracting STIs/HIV, including:

- relationship between STIs and increased risk of contracting HIV

- unprotected anal, vaginal and oral sex, receptive and insertive

- partners, mother to baby, blood to blood

- unsafe drug injection.

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