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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Prepare for health support operations
2. Information is sourced and analysed to identify health factors to be considered
3. Considerations of production/maintenance planning are applied to derive the most efficient employment of health element equipment and personnel
4. Maintenance of health equipment is scheduled within the constraints of delivering health support
5. Preparedness of health personnel is monitored to ensure personnel are competent, authorised and ready to provide health care
6. Principles of health support are applied to preparing and planning health support
7. Instructions are prepared and delivered to implement and coordinate health support operations
8. Technical advice is provided to management and stakeholders
9. Manage evacuation support
10. Evacuation planning factors are taken into consideration when planning and compiling an evacuation task order
11. Evacuation assets are maintained in a state of high readiness to respond to evacuation tasking
12. Processes and procedures are established to enable despatch and control of evacuation assets in response to tasking
13. Evacuation support is delivered to support continuity of care to casualties requiring evacuation via the health element
14. Evacuation support is delivered within operational environment constraints allowing for appropriate security and protection of evacuation assets
15. Reception and despatch of casualties with other evacuation modes is coordinated
16. Manage health support
17. Interrelationship between health elements is managed to enable continuity of care as patient transitions through care agencies
18. Health care specialists and providers are consulted to ensure patient holding is appropriate and is balanced with care required and needed to maintain health element mobility
19. Patient tracking is managed to ensure accurate picture of patient status at all times and to ensure personnel administrative system is informed of patient movements
20. Health records are maintained to enable accurate recording of care provided and basis for review and ongoing treatment
21. Health logistics are managed to ensure health resources available for care are consistent with care required and capability of health element
22. Health related reports and returns are prepared and submitted to assist with organisational health planning and coordination
23. Knowledge of relevant conventions and laws (such as the Geneva Conventions and the Laws of Armed Conflict) are applied to health support delivery
24. Welfare and administration of patients and health element personnel is monitored

Range Statement

Range is restricted to essential operating conditions and any other variables essential to the work environment.

Non-essential conditions can be found in the Companion Volume Implementation Guide.

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Performance Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria on at least one occasion and include:

applying knowledge of health planning and coordination applying health planning tools to inform health planning delivering clear, concise, accurate and authoritative instructions identifying relationships between organisational goals and recognising how own planning contributes to achieving these goals leading a team of medical experts as required liaising with external agencies to coordinate health support preparing health related reports and returns supervising a team of health care workers using information technology and software working closely with a senior clinical officer to coordinate health support.

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Knowledge Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria and include knowledge of:

health stores and equipment resupply systems and procedures legislative and regulatory environment as it relates to materiel logistics logistics support analysis principles and processes organisational policy and procedures organisational role relevant to specialist logistic support patient tracking and administration planning processes policy and procedures relating to evacuation preparedness requirements of health personnel principles of health support requirements relating to managing health waste supplying, handling and storing blood products tasks and composition of health elements and their points of interaction.

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