Subjects
Total number of units = 17, including:
12 core units
5 elective units, of which:
at least 3 units must come from the elective unit list below
up to 2 units may be may be selected from any endorsed Training Packages or accredited courses relevant to the work outcome.
All electives chosen must contribute to a valid, industry-supported vocational outcome.
Core
Work legally and ethically | |
Work in Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander primary health care context | |
Facilitate and advocate for the rights and needs of clients and community members | |
Undertake basic health assessments | |
Assist in planning and implementation of basic health care | |
Provide information about social and/or emotional support | |
Identify community health issues, needs and strategies | |
Assist with basic health screening, promotion and education services | |
Work under instructions to support the safe use of medication | |
Provide first aid | |
Comply with infection prevention and control policies and procedures | |
Participate in workplace health and safety |
Electives
Provide support to people living with dementia | |
Work in an alcohol and other drugs context | |
Work with clients who are intoxicated | |
Provide needle and syringe services | |
Facilitate individual service planning and delivery | |
Facilitate responsible behaviour | |
Provide brief intervention | |
Provide loss and grief support | |
Recognise and respond to crisis situations | |
Respond effectively to behaviours of concern | |
Transport individuals | |
Visit client residence | |
Provide client-centered support to people in crisis | |
Implement participation and engagement strategies | |
Recognise and respond appropriately to domestic and family violence | |
Promote community awareness of domestic and family violence | |
Provide domestic and family violence support in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities | |
Provide person-centred services to people with disability with complex needs | |
Work with diverse people | |
Plan health promotion and community intervention | |
Share health information | |
Respond to client language, literacy and numeracy needs | |
Work with people with mental health issues | |
Contribute to the review and development of policies | |
Identify and respond to children and young people at risk | |
Support the rights and safety of children and young people | |
Assist with substance misuse care | |
Respond to emergencies | |
Work with Elders in Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander communities | |
Provide nutrition guidance for specific health care | |
Plan, develop and evaluate health promotion and community development programs | |
Work in alcohol, other drug and mental health with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander communities | |
Provide information and strategies in health care | |
Provide information and strategies in sexual health for men | |
Provide information and strategies in sexual health for women | |
Provide information and strategies in chronic condition care | |
Provide information and strategies in maternal and infant health | |
Promote and enhance the capacities of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander families and communities | |
Maintain community health profile | |
Provide healthy lifestyle programs and advice | |
Provide healthy lifestyle programs and advice | |
Provide information and support around cancer | |
Provide information and support to women with breast cancer | |
Respond to loss, grief and trauma | |
Recognise and respond to oral health issues | |
Inform and support patients and groups about oral health | |
Apply and manage use of basic oral health products | |
Provide or assist with oral hygiene | |
Use basic oral health screening tools | |
Maintain pharmaceutical imprest stock | |
Assist with dispensing of prescriptions and medication orders | |
Order, maintain and distribute pharmaceutical stock | |
Work in a population health context | |
Contribute to working with the community to identify health needs | |
Contribute to population health project planning | |
Provide information and support on environmental health issues | |
Monitor and maintain dog health in the community | |
Assess readiness for and effect behaviour change | |
Provide information on smoking and smoking cessation | |
Provide interventions to clients who are nicotine dependent | |
Develop a plan of action to address land care issues in the community | |
Use business equipment and resources | |
Co-ordinate business resources | |
Communicate in the workplace | |
Conduct work within a compliance framework | |
Process and maintain workplace information | |
Operate a personal computer | |
Lead team effectiveness | |
Participate in environmentally sustainable work practices | |
Organise and complete daily work activities | |
Use business technology | |
Develop work priorities | |
Manage simple projects | |
Accept prescriptions and return dispensed medicines to customers | |
Deliver medicines to customers outside the pharmacy | |
Provide work skill instruction |