HLTAHA031 - Assist in rehabilitation programs

For Melbourne campuses

Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce & extend knowledge and skill competence within set & controlled parameters in accordance with each unit's learning outcomes & performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work-based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.

Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills:

• assist in the rehabilitation of three different people, one in a simulation and two in the workplace, as delegated by the Allied Health Professional in line with established rehabilitation principles and practices
• perform the activities outlined in the performance criteria of this unit during a period of at least 120 hours of allied health assistance work. At least 60% of this work must be carried out in an allied health workplace. The remaining 40% may be carried out in a simulated environment, if an allied health workplace is unavailable.

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:

• procedures for escalation of risks
• allied health core competencies:

• person-centred care
• individual therapy
• group therapy
• communication of information
• equipment and environment

• the principles and practices of rehabilitation
• the impact of illness on the person’s functional performance
• where to access resources, aids and information for rehabilitation programs
• manufacturer instructions
• strategies to support, motivate and encourage a person in a rehabilitation program
• concepts and procedures for stepping down treatment or intervention when a person becomes distressed, in pain or wishes to stop
• organisational procedures and procedures in relation to:

• confidentiality:

  privacy
  disclosure

• duty of care
• documentation:

  reporting
  recording data
  written communication to Allied Health Professional

• professional behaviour and presentation
• infection control practices
• work health and safety (WHS)
• manual handling
• supervision and delegation
• evaluation processes

• codes of practice for work in occupational therapy or other relevant allied health areas
• scope of practice of the Allied Health Assistant and Allied Health Professional
• principles of empowering the older person
• principles of empowering people living with disability or serious mental illness
• changes related to ageing
• concepts of holistic health and wellbeing
• social determinants of health
• concepts of the medical model, the biopsychosocial models and the human rights-based approach of allied health interventions
• principles of choice and control
• concept of reablement
• allied health settings:

• hospital
• community health
• mental health
• disability sector
• aged care sectors.