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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Analyse health requirements
2. Operational situation and tempo are analysed to establish scope and intent of health support
3. Information is sourced and analysed to identify health support planning factors
4. Information systems are utilised to compile and analyse casualty planning data
5. Health risk assessments are prepared to classify health risks to the organisation and to inform development of health estimate
6. Casualty estimates are produced to inform health planning and compilation of health estimate
7. Health estimates are produced to support a number of courses of action to support command appreciation
8. Develop health support plan
9. Health support organisational structure is developed to meet health estimates in accordance with organisational resource constraints
10. Lines of health support and types of health support are identified along with clear lines of responsibility and agreed casualty exchange points
11. Imperatives of health support are applied to developing health support plan and identifying a preferred course of action
12. Health support control measures are determined to provide adequate regulation of casualties and to support casualty survivability
13. Health information requirements are planned and integrated into health support plan to ensure health information is collected and analysed to inform ongoing health planning
14. Health administration requirements are planned and integrated into health support plan
15. Health plan is developed to detail provision of services, and establishment and operation of operational health elements
16. Health plan is communicated to stakeholders
17. Integrate health plan
18. Liaison with other stakeholders is undertaken to ensure health plan is integrated into larger logistics or operational plan
19. Health plan is adjusted in accordance with changing operational tempo or need to synchronise with other logistics functions
20. Specialist health input and recommendations are provided to management regarding health support and employment of health support capabilities

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:

analysing and validating numerical information accurately analysing task complexities applying a broad range of problem-solving strategies to planning outcomes identifying operational intent and recognising how own planning contributes to operation success interpreting instructions and applying this information to developing actions and tasks interpreting policy and procedures making informed decisions that align with organisational requirements managing own planning tasks in collaboration with other staff planners moving forward despite planning task difficulty preparing and issuing written instructions undertaking analysis to determine where internal and external factors impact on health support requirements, and adjusting planning accordingly using appropriate information technology and software working cooperatively as a member of a team.

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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:

environmental consideration for planning health support estimation of casualty numbers and types functionality and operation of logistics information management systems health capabilities health intelligence sources, collection and analysis processes health planning inputs to staff planning process health stores and equipment including resupply systems and procedures integrated logistics support (ILS) legislative and regulatory environment relating to materiel logistics and health services delivery organisational policy and procedure relating to health support patient tracking and administration policy and procedures relating to surface evacuation preparedness requirements of health personnel and equipment principles of health support requirements relating to managing health waste risks to health support staff planning process supplying, handling and storing blood products tasks and composition of health elements, and their points of interaction writing conventions.

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