Unit of Competency Mapping – Information for Teachers/Assessors – Information for Learners

HLTAHW052 Mapping and Delivery Guide
Deliver primary health care to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander clients in confinement

Version 1.0
Issue Date: April 2024


Qualification -
Unit of Competency HLTAHW052 - Deliver primary health care to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander clients in confinement
Description
Employability Skills
Learning Outcomes and Application This unit describes the required skills and knowledge for an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander worker to perform effectively in delivery of primary health care services to clients in the confinement of a prison or corrective services environment.This unit applies to those Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Health Workers working independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team to deliver primary health care services to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander clients and communities. The skills in this unit must be applied in accordance with Commonwealth and State/Territory legislation, Australian/New Zealand standards and industry codes of practice.
Duration and Setting X weeks, nominally xx hours, delivered in a classroom/online/blended learning setting.

Skills must be demonstrated working:

as part of a health service or centre, providing services to prisons and/or a corrective services facility

individually or as a member of a multidisciplinary primary health care team

with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander clients and communities.

In addition, simulations and scenarios must be used where the full range of contexts and situations cannot be provided in the workplace or may occur only rarely. These are situations relating to emergency or unplanned procedures where assessment in these circumstances would be unsafe or is impractical.

Simulated assessment environments must simulate the real-life working environment where these skills and knowledge would be performed, with all the relevant equipment and resources of that working environment.

Assessors must satisfy the Standards for Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) 2015/AQTF mandatory competency requirements for assessors.

Assessment must be undertaken by a workplace assessor who has expertise in this unit of competency and who is:

an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Health Worker

or:

accompanied by an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person who is a recognised member of the community with experience in primary health care.
Prerequisites/co-requisites
Competency Field
Development and validation strategy and guide for assessors and learners Student Learning Resources Handouts
Activities 		Slides
PPT 		Assessment 1 Assessment 2 Assessment 3 Assessment 4
Elements of Competency Performance Criteria              
Element: Elements define the essential outcomes.
       
Element: Prepare to work with clients in confinement
  • Clarify prison policies and procedures to identify potential for providing primary health care services to inmates
  • Clarify overlapping and complementary roles of workers in the prison environment
  • Identify boundaries and constraints relating to own work role in the prison environment
  • Seek to identify level of awareness of own role among staff and inmates in the prison environment
  • Clarify potential for own role to enhance client care in the prison environment
  • Professionally assert scope of practice appropriate to own role and skills with prison staff
       
Element: Advocate for clients effectively from within prison
  • Clarify inmate needs for health care and support as appropriate to own role
  • Recognise potential impacts and challenges of providing client advocacy from inside the prison
  • Employ strategies to effectively manage conflict or resentment arising from client advocacy activities
  • Clarify rights and responsibilities of inmates and assert as required
  • Support inmates in relation to parole and release issues as required
  • Contribute to post-release support as appropriate
       
Element: Support inmates to make informed health choices
  • Use accurate information about the inmate’s health and potential care as a basis for informing clients about available options
  • Explain potential consequences of available options to clients
  • Support clients through the continuum of care in line with own work role
       
Element: Contribute to enhancing awareness of cultural safety issues
  • Raise cultural safety issues in the prison environment with staff in relation to health issues for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander clients
  • Build own tolerance and mutual respect of colleagues by seeking to understand reasons for any insensitivity or culturally unsafe practices
  • Reinforce colleagues’ application of cultural safety practices in the workplace through public and/or personal recognition
  • Provide leadership in the implementation of culturally safe principles and practice
       
Element: Promote change to enhance cultural safety in the prison environment
  • Participate in the development and/or refinement of prison policies on cultural safety
  • Identify change agents who may facilitate and/or champion needed change
  • Identify potential blockages to change
  • Mobilise available support to enhance cultural safety in the prison environment
  • Enlist community support to enhance cultural safety in the prison environment
       


Evidence Required

List the assessment methods to be used and the context and resources required for assessment. Copy and paste the relevant sections from the evidence guide below and then re-write these in plain English.

ELEMENT

PERFORMANCE CRITERIA

Elements define the essential outcomes.

Performance criteria specify the level of performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element.

1. Prepare to work with clients in confinement

1.1 Clarify prison policies and procedures to identify potential for providing primary health care services to inmates

1.2 Clarify overlapping and complementary roles of workers in the prison environment

1.3 Identify boundaries and constraints relating to own work role in the prison environment

1.4 Seek to identify level of awareness of own role among staff and inmates in the prison environment

1.5 Clarify potential for own role to enhance client care in the prison environment

1.6 Professionally assert scope of practice appropriate to own role and skills with prison staff

2. Advocate for clients effectively from within prison

2.1 Clarify inmate needs for health care and support as appropriate to own role

2.2 Recognise potential impacts and challenges of providing client advocacy from inside the prison

2.3 Employ strategies to effectively manage conflict or resentment arising from client advocacy activities

2.4 Clarify rights and responsibilities of inmates and assert as required

2.5 Support inmates in relation to parole and release issues as required

2.6 Contribute to post-release support as appropriate

3. Support inmates to make informed health choices

3.1 Use accurate information about the inmate’s health and potential care as a basis for informing clients about available options

3.2 Explain potential consequences of available options to clients

3.3 Support clients through the continuum of care in line with own work role

4. Contribute to enhancing awareness of cultural safety issues

4.1 Raise cultural safety issues in the prison environment with staff in relation to health issues for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander clients

4.2 Build own tolerance and mutual respect of colleagues by seeking to understand reasons for any insensitivity or culturally unsafe practices

4.3 Reinforce colleagues’ application of cultural safety practices in the workplace through public and/or personal recognition

4.4 Provide leadership in the implementation of culturally safe principles and practice

5. Promote change to enhance cultural safety in the prison environment

5.1 Participate in the development and/or refinement of prison policies on cultural safety

5.2 Identify change agents who may facilitate and/or champion needed change

5.3 Identify potential blockages to change

5.4 Mobilise available support to enhance cultural safety in the prison environment

5.5 Enlist community support to enhance cultural safety in the prison environment

The candidate must show evidence of the ability to complete tasks outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit, manage tasks and manage contingencies in the context of the job role.

There must be evidence that the candidate has:

worked effectively with at least three clients in a prison or corrective services environment by:

using appropriate strategies for protection of self and others in a culturally unsafe work environment

using self-protective behavioural strategies to maintain resilience in the prison environment

providing information and advice to assist at least three inmates to maintain a level of physical, mental and spiritual health in the prison environment

supporting at least three inmates with parole and release issues

communicating effectively with clients and stakeholders. This includes:

clarifying inmate needs

advocating for cultural safety of clients in the prison environment

discussing and reinforcing cultural safety practices with colleagues

dealing with conflict.

The candidate must be able to demonstrate essential knowledge required to effectively do the task outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit, manage the task and manage contingencies in the context of the identified work role.

This includes knowledge of:

cultural safety principles, practices and issues

scope of own professional role and roles of associated health professionals

components of culturally safe health care

overview of Australian justice and prison systems

techniques to empower clients to make choices relating to health care in the prison system

assertive communication techniques

Submission Requirements

List each assessment task's title, type (eg project, observation/demonstration, essay, assignment, checklist) and due date here

Assessment task 1: [title]      Due date:

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Assessment Tasks

Copy and paste from the following data to produce each assessment task. Write these in plain English and spell out how, when and where the task is to be carried out, under what conditions, and what resources are needed. Include guidelines about how well the candidate has to perform a task for it to be judged satisfactory.

ELEMENT

PERFORMANCE CRITERIA

Elements define the essential outcomes.

Performance criteria specify the level of performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element.

1. Prepare to work with clients in confinement

1.1 Clarify prison policies and procedures to identify potential for providing primary health care services to inmates

1.2 Clarify overlapping and complementary roles of workers in the prison environment

1.3 Identify boundaries and constraints relating to own work role in the prison environment

1.4 Seek to identify level of awareness of own role among staff and inmates in the prison environment

1.5 Clarify potential for own role to enhance client care in the prison environment

1.6 Professionally assert scope of practice appropriate to own role and skills with prison staff

2. Advocate for clients effectively from within prison

2.1 Clarify inmate needs for health care and support as appropriate to own role

2.2 Recognise potential impacts and challenges of providing client advocacy from inside the prison

2.3 Employ strategies to effectively manage conflict or resentment arising from client advocacy activities

2.4 Clarify rights and responsibilities of inmates and assert as required

2.5 Support inmates in relation to parole and release issues as required

2.6 Contribute to post-release support as appropriate

3. Support inmates to make informed health choices

3.1 Use accurate information about the inmate’s health and potential care as a basis for informing clients about available options

3.2 Explain potential consequences of available options to clients

3.3 Support clients through the continuum of care in line with own work role

4. Contribute to enhancing awareness of cultural safety issues

4.1 Raise cultural safety issues in the prison environment with staff in relation to health issues for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander clients

4.2 Build own tolerance and mutual respect of colleagues by seeking to understand reasons for any insensitivity or culturally unsafe practices

4.3 Reinforce colleagues’ application of cultural safety practices in the workplace through public and/or personal recognition

4.4 Provide leadership in the implementation of culturally safe principles and practice

5. Promote change to enhance cultural safety in the prison environment

5.1 Participate in the development and/or refinement of prison policies on cultural safety

5.2 Identify change agents who may facilitate and/or champion needed change

5.3 Identify potential blockages to change

5.4 Mobilise available support to enhance cultural safety in the prison environment

5.5 Enlist community support to enhance cultural safety in the prison environment

Copy and paste from the following performance criteria to create an observation checklist for each task. When you have finished writing your assessment tool every one of these must have been addressed, preferably several times in a variety of contexts. To ensure this occurs download the assessment matrix for the unit; enter each assessment task as a column header and place check marks against each performance criteria that task addresses.

Observation Checklist

Tasks to be observed according to workplace/college/TAFE policy and procedures, relevant legislation and Codes of Practice Yes No Comments/feedback
 
Clarify prison policies and procedures to identify potential for providing primary health care services to inmates 
Clarify overlapping and complementary roles of workers in the prison environment 
Identify boundaries and constraints relating to own work role in the prison environment 
Seek to identify level of awareness of own role among staff and inmates in the prison environment 
Clarify potential for own role to enhance client care in the prison environment 
Professionally assert scope of practice appropriate to own role and skills with prison staff 
Clarify inmate needs for health care and support as appropriate to own role 
Recognise potential impacts and challenges of providing client advocacy from inside the prison 
Employ strategies to effectively manage conflict or resentment arising from client advocacy activities 
Clarify rights and responsibilities of inmates and assert as required 
Support inmates in relation to parole and release issues as required 
Contribute to post-release support as appropriate 
Use accurate information about the inmate’s health and potential care as a basis for informing clients about available options 
Explain potential consequences of available options to clients 
Support clients through the continuum of care in line with own work role 
Raise cultural safety issues in the prison environment with staff in relation to health issues for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander clients 
Build own tolerance and mutual respect of colleagues by seeking to understand reasons for any insensitivity or culturally unsafe practices 
Reinforce colleagues’ application of cultural safety practices in the workplace through public and/or personal recognition 
Provide leadership in the implementation of culturally safe principles and practice 
Participate in the development and/or refinement of prison policies on cultural safety 
Identify change agents who may facilitate and/or champion needed change 
Identify potential blockages to change 
Mobilise available support to enhance cultural safety in the prison environment 
Enlist community support to enhance cultural safety in the prison environment 

Forms

Assessment Cover Sheet

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