Unit of Competency Mapping – Information for Teachers/Assessors – Information for Learners
SIRCHCS002 Mapping and Delivery Guide
Supply and hire home health care aids and equipment
Version 1.0
Issue Date: May 2024
Qualification | - |
Unit of Competency | SIRCHCS002 - Supply and hire home health care aids and equipment |
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Employability Skills | |||
Learning Outcomes and Application | This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to develop knowledge of home health-care aids and equipment and recommend, demonstrate, sell and hire appropriate aids. It requires the ability to identify and act on triggers for referral to a pharmacist for therapeutic advice.This unit applies to pharmacy assistants working in community pharmacies. They work with some independence, under general supervision and guidance from others, but ultimately under the supervising pharmacist.No occupational licensing, certification or specific legislative requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication. | ||
Duration and Setting | X weeks, nominally xx hours, delivered in a classroom/online/blended learning setting. Skills must be demonstrated in a pharmacy with designated front of pharmacy and dispensary areas. This can be: an industry workplace a simulated industry environment. Assessment must ensure use of: information technology hardware and software online information systems commercial product range of home health-care aids and equipment: arthritis aids bathroom and toilet aids bedroom aids chairs footwear products pressure care and monitoring aids walking and mobility aids wheelchairs cleaning and disinfection products used for return hire items template hire agreements for equipment customer brochures and leaflets providing information on: directions for product use care and maintenance of aids and equipment organisational equipment hire policy organisational procedures for supplying home health-care aids and equipment customers with whom the individual can interact; these can be: customers in an industry workplace who are served by the individual during the assessment process or individuals who participate in role plays or simulated activities, set up for the purpose of assessment, in a simulated industry environment operated within a training organisation. Assessors must satisfy the Standards for Registered Training Organisation’s requirements for assessors, and: have worked in the pharmacy sector for at least two years. |
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Competency Field | Health Care Support |
Development and validation strategy and guide for assessors and learners | Student Learning Resources | Handouts Activities |
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Elements of Competency | Performance Criteria | |||||||
Element: Develop knowledge of home health-care aids and equipment. |
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Element: Identify customer needs. |
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Element: Recommend and supply home health-care aids. |
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Element: Hire aids and equipment. |
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