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 | |
Assess client's physical wellbeing | |
Assess and support client's 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 | |
Administer medications | |
Provide nutrition guidance for specific health care | |
Address social determinants of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander health | |
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 with Elders in Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander communities | ||
Plan, develop and evaluate health promotion and community development programs | ||
Work in alcohol, other drugs 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 | ||
Assess and promote physical and emotional wellbeing of children | ||
Monitor early childhood growth and development | ||
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 | ||
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 | ||
Apply fluoride varnish | ||
Identify and respond to clinical risks in pathology collection | ||
Perform venous blood collection | ||
Collect pathology specimens other than blood | ||
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 | ||
Co-ordinate business resources | ||
Plan and conduct a community meeting | ||
Conduct work within a compliance framework | ||
Collect, analyse and record information | ||
Survey stakeholders to gather and record information | ||
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 | ||