Unit of Competency Mapping – Information for Teachers/Assessors – Information for Learners
HLTAHW035 Mapping and Delivery Guide
Provide information and support around cancer
Version 1.0
Issue Date: June 2024
Qualification | - |
Unit of Competency | HLTAHW035 - Provide information and support around cancer |
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Description | |||
Employability Skills | |||
Learning Outcomes and Application | This unit describes the required skills and knowledge to provide information about cancer and support for people and their families, to enable informed choices about prevention and screening, diagnosis and treatment, through to survivorship or palliation.This unit applies to those Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Health Workers providing a range of primary health care services to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander clients and communities. The skills in this unit must be applied in accordance with Commonwealth and State/Territory legislation, Australian/New Zealand standards and industry codes of practice. | ||
Duration and Setting | X weeks, nominally xx hours, delivered in a classroom/online/blended learning setting. Skills must be demonstrated working: in a health service or centre as part of a multidisciplinary primary health care team with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander clients and communities. In addition, simulations and scenarios must be used where the full range of contexts and situations cannot be provided in the workplace or may occur only rarely. These are situations relating to emergency or unplanned procedures where assessment in these circumstances would be unsafe or is impractical. Simulated assessment environments must simulate the real-life working environment where these skills and knowledge would be performed, with all the relevant equipment and resources of that working environment. Assessors must satisfy the Standards for Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) 2015/AQTF mandatory competency requirements for assessors. Assessment must be undertaken by a workplace assessor who has expertise in this unit of competency and who is: an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Health Worker or: accompanied by an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person who is a recognised member of the community with experience in primary health care. |
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Competency Field |
Development and validation strategy and guide for assessors and learners | Student Learning Resources | Handouts Activities |
Slides PPT |
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Elements of Competency | Performance Criteria | |||||||
Element: Elements define the essential outcomes | ||||||||
Element: Promote the awareness of cancer prevention, screening and early detection |
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Element: Provide support to clients with cancer |
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Element: Organise follow-up care for clients with cancer |
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