Subjects
Total number of units = 21, including: 14 core units 7 elective units, of which: at least 4 units must come from the elective list below up to 3 units may be selected from any endorsed Training Packages or accredited courses relevant to the work outcome. All electives chosen must contribute to a valid, industry-supported vocational outcome. |
Core
Work legally and ethically | |
Work in an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander primary health care context | |
Facilitate and advocate for the rights and needs of clients and community members | |
Undertake basic health assessments | |
Assess and support clients social and emotional wellbeing | |
Plan, implement and monitor health care in a primary health care context | |
Deliver primary health care programs for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander communities | |
Provide nutrition guidance for specific health care | |
Address social determinants of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander health | |
Plan, develop and evaluate health promotion and community development programs | |
Support the safe use of medications | |
Provide first aid | |
Comply with infection prevention and control policies and procedures | |
Participate in workplace health and safety |
Electives
Provide support to people living with dementia | |
Work in an alcohol and other drugs context | |
Work with clients who are intoxicated | |
Provide needle and syringe services | |
Assess needs of client with alcohol and other drugs issues | |
Provide alcohol and other drugs withdrawal services | |
Address the needs of people with chronic disease | |
Increase the safety of individuals at risk of suicide | |
Assess co-existing needs | |
Facilitate individual service planning and delivery | |
Develop and implement service programs | |
Facilitate responsible behaviour | |
Provide brief interventions | |
Provide individualised support | |
Respond to client needs | |
Provide loss and grief support | |
Recognise and respond to crisis situations | |
Respond effectively to behaviours of concern | |
Support independence and wellbeing | |
Provide client-centered support to people in crisis | |
Work within a community development framework | |
Implement participation and engagement strategies | |
Develop and provide community projects | |
Implement community development strategies | |
Facilitate the development of community capacity to manage place making | |
Use communication to build relationships | |
Recognise and respond appropriately to domestic and family violence | |
Provide support to children affected by domestic and family violence | |
Promote community awareness of domestic and family violence | |
Provide domestic and family violence support in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities | |
Work with users of violence to effect change | |
Provide person-centred services to people with disability with complex needs | |
Work with diverse people | |
Plan health promotion and community intervention | |
Share health information | |
Respond to client language, literacy and numeracy needs | |
Provide services to people with coexisting mental health and alcohol and other drugs issues | |
Contribute to the review and development of policies | |
Research and apply evidence to practice | |
Develop and maintain networks and collaborative partnerships | |
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 collaboratively to maintain an environment safe for children and young people | |
Work effectively with young people in the youth work context | |
Support young people to create opportunities in their lives | |
Respond to critical situations | |
Work effectively with young people and their families | |
Identify community health issues, needs and strategies | |
Assist with prevention and minimisation of substance misuse | |
Respond to emergencies | |
Work effectively with Elders in Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander communities | |
Work in alcohol, other drug and mental health care with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander communities | |
Provide information and strategies in health care | |
Provide information and strategies in sexual health for men | |
Provide information and strategies in sexual health for women | |
Provide information and strategies in chronic condition care | |
Provide information and strategies in maternal and infant health | |
Provide information and strategies in eye health | |
Provide information/strategies to enhance capacities of Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander families | |
Supervise individual workers | |
Maintain community health profile | |
Provide healthy lifestyle programs and advice | |
Provide information and support around cancer | |
Provide information and support to women with breast cancer | |
Promote burns prevention in homes and the community | |
Assess and manage emergency treatment of burns | |
Implement a burns rehabilitation care plan | |
Facilitate access to tertiary health services | |
Respond to loss, grief and trauma | |
Address impact of food security on community health | |
Supervise a health care team | |
Provide advanced resuscitation | |
Conduct play audiometry | |
Assess and respond to occupational noise risk | |
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 | |
Use basic oral health screening tools | |
Contribute to working with the community to identify health needs | |
Contribute to population health project planning | |
Provide information and support on environmental health issues | |
Contribute to the implementation of a disaster plan | |
Assess readiness for and effect behaviour change | |
Provide information on smoking and smoking cessation | |
Provide interventions to clients who are nicotine dependent | |
Apply a population health framework | |
Work with the community to identify health needs | |
Plan a population health project | |
Build capacity to promote health | |
Coordinate business resources | |
Plan and conduct a community meeting | |
Select and use technology | |
Conduct work within a compliance framework | |
Use multiple information systems | |
Collect, analyse and record information | |
Survey stakeholders to gather and record information | |
Utilise a knowledge management system | |
Create and use databases | |
Lead team effectiveness | |
Develop public relations campaigns | |
Develop work priorities | |
Manage simple projects | |
Contribute to assessment | |
Plan assessment activities and processes | |
Assess competence | |
Provide work skill instruction | |
Plan, organise and deliver group-based learning | |
Plan, organise and facilitate learning in the workplace |