Subjects
Total number of units = 18
15 core units
3 elective units, consisting of:
at least 2 units from the electives listed below
up to 1 unit from the electives listed below, any endorsed Training Package or accredited course these units must be relevant to the work outcome
All electives chosen must contribute to a valid, industry-supported vocational outcome.
Core units
Facilitate the interests and rights of clients | |
Facilitate the empowerment of older people | |
Coordinate services for older people | |
Implement interventions with older people at risk | |
Provide support to people living with dementia | |
Facilitate individual service planning and delivery | |
Meet personal support needs | |
Support independence and wellbeing | |
Support relationships with carers and families | |
Work with diverse people | |
Manage legal and ethical compliance | |
Deliver care services using a palliative approach | |
Develop and maintain networks and collaborative partnerships | |
Recognise healthy body systems | |
Follow safe work practices for direct client care |
Electives units
Implement falls prevention strategies | |
Provide food services | |
Work in an alcohol and other drugs context | |
Address the needs of people with chronic disease | |
Develop and implement service programs | |
Maintain a high standard of service | |
Provide loss and grief support | |
Provide suicide bereavement support | |
Recognise and respond to crisis situations | |
Respond to suspected abuse | |
Facilitate independent travel | |
Transport individuals | |
Use communication to build relationships | |
Communicate using augmentative and alternative communication strategies | |
Facilitate the empowerment of people with disability | |
Facilitate community participation and social inclusion | |
Facilitate ongoing skills development using a person-centred approach | |
Provide person-centred services to people with disability with complex needs | |
Promote Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander cultural safety | |
Manage and promote diversity | |
Plan health promotion and community intervention | |
Coordinate and monitor home based support | |
Meet statutory and organisation information requirements | |
Respond to client language, literacy and numeracy needs | |
Develop, implement and review quality framework | |
Manage partnership agreements with services providers | |
Coordinate client directed services | |
Work with people with mental health issues | |
Plan for and provide care services using a palliative approach | |
Plan for the provision of pastoral and spiritual care | |
Provide pastoral and spiritual care | |
Work with forced migrants | |
Work with people experiencing or at risk of homelessness | |
Confirm physical health status | |
Provide support in dysphagia management | |
Assist with planning and evaluating meals and menus to meet recommended dietary guidelines | |
Assist with the monitoring and modification of meals and menus according to individualised plans | |
Assist with screening and implementation of therapeutic diets | |
Provide first aid | |
Provide advanced first aid | |
Follow basic food safety practices | |
Assist clients with medication | |
Administer and monitor medications | |
Inform and support patients and groups about oral health | |
Apply and manage use of basic oral health products | |
Provide or assist with oral hygiene | |
Use basic oral health screening tools | |
Apply fluoride varnish | |
Maintain work health and safety | |
Manage work health and safety | |
Manage budgets and financial plans | |
Provide workplace information and resourcing plans | |
Process and maintain workplace information | |
Lead effective workplace relationships | |
Show leadership in the workplace | |
Plan and monitor continuous improvement | |
Use business technology | |
Plan, organise and facilitate learning in the workplace | |
Mentor in the workplace |