Subjects
Total number of units = 17
12 core units
5 elective units, consisting of:
at least 3 units from the electives listed below
up to 2 units 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
Work in an alcohol and other drugs context | |
Assess needs of clients with alcohol and other drugs issues | |
Provide interventions for people with alcohol and other drugs issues | |
Develop and review individual alcohol and other drugs treatment plans | |
Assess co-existing needs | |
Provide brief interventions | |
Use communication to build relationships | |
Work with diverse people | |
Work legally and ethically | |
Work with people with mental health issues | |
Develop and maintain networks and collaborative partnerships | |
Provide first aid |
Elective units
Facilitate the interests and rights of clients | |
Facilitate the empowerment of older people | |
Work with clients who are intoxicated | |
Provide needle and syringe services | |
Provide alcohol and other drugs withdrawal services | |
Address the needs of people with chronic disease | |
Increase the safety of individuals at risk of suicide | |
Facilitate individual service planning and delivery | |
Facilitate responsible behaviour | |
Provide loss and grief support | |
Provide suicide bereavement support | |
Recognise and respond to crisis situations | |
Support independence and wellbeing | |
Visit client residence | |
Develop and implement community programs | |
Implement participation and engagement strategies | |
Work to empower Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander communities | |
Develop and provide community projects | |
Coordinate complex case requirements | |
Recognise and respond appropriately to domestic and family violence | |
Facilitate the empowerment of people with disability | |
Facilitate community participation and social inclusion | |
Promote Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander cultural safety | |
Provide community focused promotion and prevention strategies | |
Plan health promotion and community intervention | |
Work with clients to identify financial literacy education needs | |
Improve clients fundamental financial literacy skills | |
Provide group education on consumer credit and debt | |
Share health information | |
Provide parenting, health and well-being education | |
Support people to improve relationships | |
Provide intervention support to families | |
Plan and conduct group activities | |
Plan, facilitate and review psycho-educational groups | |
Deliver structured programs | |
Respond to client language, literacy and numeracy needs | |
Establish self-directed recovery relationships | |
Provide recovery oriented mental health services | |
Work collaboratively with the care network and other services | |
Provide services to people with co-existing mental health and alcohol and other drugs issues | |
Facilitate the recovery process with the person, family and carers | |
Reflect on and improve own professional practice | |
Identify and respond to children and young people at risk | |
Support the rights and safety of children and young people | |
Work with forced migrants | |
Undertake bicultural work with forced migrants in Australia | |
Work with people experiencing or at risk of homelessness | |
Work effectively with young people and their families | |
Recognise healthy body systems | |
Assist clients with medication | |
Interpret and use information about nutrition and diet | |
Recognise and respond to oral health issues | |
Inform and support patients and groups about oral health | |
Apply and manage use of basic oral health products | |
Provide or assist with oral hygiene | |
Manage personal stressors in the work environment | |
Process and maintain workplace information |