Unit of Competency Mapping – Information for Teachers/Assessors – Information for Learners
SIRCHCS005 Mapping and Delivery Guide
Provide Australian Needle and Syringe Program services
Version 1.0
Issue Date: April 2024
Qualification | - |
Unit of Competency | SIRCHCS005 - Provide Australian Needle and Syringe Program services |
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Description | |||
Employability Skills | |||
Learning Outcomes and Application | This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to provide service to customers of the Australian Needle and Syringe Program (NSP). It covers only the provision of free ready-made equipment packs and the acceptance of sealed sharps disposal containers. 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 areas. This can be: an industry workplace a simulated industry environment. Assessment must ensure use of: ready-made NSP equipment packs containing: syringes swabs filters a sharps disposal container sealed sharps disposal containers large pharmacy yellow sharps bin personal protective equipment used to handle sharps disposal containers operational guidelines of the NSP program documents used to record and report NSP statistics brochures and leaflets providing information on self-referral alcohol and drug support agencies organisational procedures for providing NSP services 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 |
Slides PPT |
Assessment 1 | Assessment 2 | Assessment 3 | Assessment 4 | |
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Elements of Competency | Performance Criteria | |||||||
Element: Identify customer needs. |
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Element: Provide NSP equipment. |
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Element: Respond to information requirements. |
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