Application
This unit involves the skills and knowledge required to coordinate health support operations in support operations in accordance with relevant organisational policy and procedures. This unit is applicable to logistics personnel who have specialist health planning skills and are responsible for coordinating logistics support across a variety of health elements at an organisational level. No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication. |
Elements and Performance Criteria
Elements describe the essential outcomes. | Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element. | ||
1 | Coordinate health information collection to aid health planning and health support delivery | 1.1 | Health information requirements are identified to contribute to establishing and maintaining an accurate understanding of current and potential health threats |
1.2 | Health elements are liaised with to establish arrangements for collecting and reporting information | ||
1.3 | Information management systems and information from health elements are utilised to compile and analyse health data and information to identify significant trends or data and develop an understanding of current and emerging health threats | ||
1.4 | Health estimates are produced and updated based on analysis of health information and direction from health specialists | ||
1.5 | Health estimates are communicated to stakeholders to enable appropriate employment of health support capabilities | ||
2 | Undertake casualty regulation in support of operations | 2.1 | Casualty regulation strategies are determined and implemented to ensure efficient routing of casualties to appropriate treatment facilities |
2.2 | Effectiveness of casualty regulation strategies is monitored and adapted to ensure strategies reflect environmental and operational situation needs | ||
2.3 | Casualty evacuation is coordinated to support appropriate movement of casualties around area of operations | ||
3 | Coordinate supply and support services to health facilities | 3.1 | Arrangements for removing and disposing health related waste are coordinated |
3.2 | Water resupply to health facilities is monitored to ensure water availability is consistent with health dependency being supported | ||
3.3 | Laundry support to health facilities is coordinated to ensure linen and clothing availability is consistent with health dependency being supported | ||
3.4 | Mortuary support to health facilities is coordinated to ensure remains storage is consistent with operational need and operational plan for handling and repatriating human remains | ||
3.5 | Medical and dental supply arrangements are monitored to ensure perishable and/or disposable items are supplied consistent with health dependency being supported, and identified and forecasted usage rates | ||
3.6 | Procurement, transportation and supply of whole blood is coordinated to ensure surgical elements have sufficient quantities of blood to meet current and potential health care | ||
4 | Coordinate health administration | 4.1 | Accurate records of organisational clinical workload and patient care statistics are maintained to provide a basis for analysis and service improvement |
4.2 | Medical reports and returns are prepared and issued to provide an accurate picture of health status | ||
4.3 | Advice is prepared and provided on health administration matters to health elements to ensure delivery of health care and handling of health administrative matters are in accordance with organisational policy and procedure | ||
4.4 | Casualty notification and report updates are prepared and issued to notify and provide updates on casualty status to family or other interested parties | ||
4.5 | Relevant agencies are liaised with to seek advice on casualty welfare and administration, and to ensure health support provided is in accordance with organisational policy and procedures | ||
4.6 | Health support operations are monitored to ensure health support provided is in accordance with organisational policy and procedures |
Evidence of Performance
Evidence required to demonstrate competence in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria on at least one occasion and include: |
analysing and validating numerical information accurately applying a broad range of problem-solving strategies to planning outcomes applying organisational policy and procedures relating to health support delivery applying outcomes of health risk analysis to planning and coordinating current operations collating and analysing health information to identify current and emerging health threats coordinating health administration in accordance with organisational policy and procedure coordinating provision of health support service to deployed health facilities identifying operational intent and recognising how own work contributes to operational success identifying viable and useful health information sources and facilitating their collection interpreting instructions and applying to actions and tasks interpreting policies and procedures maintaining health threat assessment (health estimate) based on collection and analysis of health information making informed decisions that align current health support operation to organisational requirements making specific recommendation/s to medical specialist regarding emerging health threats managing own tasks in collaboration with other planners moving forward despite planning task difficulty preparing and issuing written instructions undertaking analysis to determine where internal and external factors impact on health support requirements and adjusting planning accordingly using appropriate information technology and software working cooperatively as a member of a team. |
Evidence of Knowledge
Evidence required to demonstrate competence in this unit must be relevant to and satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria and include knowledge of: |
casualty regulation strategies, concepts and principles environmental consideration in health support functionality and operation of logistics information management systems health information collection, analysis and application health stores and equipment including resupply systems and procedures laundry requirements relating to health support legislative and regulatory environment relating to materiel logistics and health services delivery mortuary requirements relating to health support organisational policy and procedure relating to health support patient tracking and administration policy and procedure relating to evacuation principles of health support requirements relating to managing health waste risks to health support supplying, handling and storing blood products tasks and composition of health elements and their points of interaction. |
Assessment Conditions
As a minimum, assessors must satisfy applicable regulatory requirements, which include requirements in the Standards for Registered Training Organisations current at the time of assessment. As a minimum, assessment must satisfy applicable regulatory requirements, which include requirements in the Standards for Registered Training Organisations current at the time of assessment. Assessment must occur in workplace operational situations where it is appropriate to do so; where this is not appropriate, assessment must occur in simulated workplace operational situations that replicate workplace conditions. Assessment processes and techniques must be appropriate to the language, literacy and numeracy requirements of the work being performed and the needs of the candidate. Resources for assessment include: a range of relevant exercises, case studies and/or simulations relevant and appropriate materials, tools, equipment and personal protective equipment currently used in industry applicable documentation including workplace procedures, regulations, codes of practice and operation manuals |
Foundation Skills
Foundation skills essential to performance are explicit in the performance criteria of this unit of competency. |
Range Statement
Range is restricted to essential operating conditions and any other variables essential to the work environment.
Non-essential conditions can be found in the Companion Volume Implementation Guide.
Sectors
Not applicable.
Competency Field
X – Logistics