Elements and Performance Criteria
- Support the client to engage with a relevant social network and the wider community
- Confirm the client’s social and recreational preferences
- Identify a client’s social network (where possible)
- Encourage and facilitate the client to attend social and recreational activities and wherever possible, involving their social network
- Encourage and facilitate the client to attend social and recreational activities that promote the development of social networks
- Recognise the need to modify or adapt social and recreational activities to meet specific needs of the client and report to appropriateperson
- Provide the client with information about community networks and activities available to them
- Support the client’s health
- Demonstrate basic understanding of the impact the client’s circumstances may have on their health
- Identify processes, actions and circumstances that support the client’s good health
- Provide support in a manner that promotes the client’s good health
- Confirm aspects of supporting a client’s health within scope of knowledge, skills and/or job role and seek appropriate support for those outside scope
- Identify variations in a client’s physical condition and report to supervisor
- Recognise indications that client’s experience of pain is affecting their wellbeing and report according to organisation policy and protocol
- Support the person’s emotional and psychological wellbeing
- Demonstrate basic understanding of the impact of client’s circumstances may have on emotional and psychological wellbeing
- Identify processes, actions and circumstances that support the client’s self-esteem and confidence
- Provide support in a manner that promotes the client’s self-esteem and confidence
- Identify aspects of supporting a client’s emotional wellbeing outside scope of knowledge, skills and/or job role and seek appropriate support
- Identify variations to a client’s emotional wellbeing and report to supervisor
- Recognise and report possible indicators of client abuse and/or neglect and report according to organisation policy and protocol
- Recognise and accommodate a client’s cultural and spiritual preferences
- Demonstrate acceptance of a client’s cultural and spiritual preferences
- Ensure work practices accommodate a client’s modesty and privacy according to cultural requirements
- Demonstrate cultural sensitivity in communication practices
- Facilitate the client’s participation in cultural and spiritual practices and celebrations
- Provide the client with information regarding relevant cultural and spiritual networks available in the community
- Support client to create an environment suitable to needs and preferences
- Encourage and assist client to maintain their environment
- Assist client to feel secure and comfortable
- Identify hazards and report to supervisor
- Use appropriate aids to support comfort, safety and wellbeing
- Facilitate established routines, rhythms and customs of client, where possible
- Inform client of support services and encourage them to use services
- Recognise and accommodate the client’s expressions ofidentity andsexuality
- Demonstrate understanding of the impact of the client’s circumstances on an individual’s expression of identity and sexuality
- Recognise the impact of community values and attitudes regarding sexuality, ageing and disability
- Avoid imposing own values and attitudes regarding sexuality on others
- Support the person to express their sexuality
- Respect different spiritual expressions of sexuality
- Acknowledge unmet needs relating to sexuality and identity and refer to an appropriate person
- Complete documentation