HLTAHA032 - Support maintenance of functional status

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Unit code: HLTAHA032 | Study level: TAFE
Credit points
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Location
Sunshine
Werribee
Prerequisites
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Overview
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Overview

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to provide assistance to an Allied Health Professional. Work includes supporting the individual to participate in developmental activities that will enhance or maintain functional status.
This unit applies to Allied Health Assistants and should be performed under the direct, indirect or remote supervision and delegation of an Allied Health Professional (AHP).The skills in this unit must be applied in accordance with Allied Health Assistant Framework, Commonwealth and State or Territory legislation, Australian standards and industry codes of practice.

Assessment

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 development and implementation of active support strategies for three people, one in simulation and two in the workplace
  • work collaboratively with three people and carers, one in simulation and two in the workplace, in the development of daily living skills
  • 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
  • principles and practices of active support and the promotion of individual’s rights, choices and wellbeing when supporting participation in developmental activities
  • variability and complexities of workplace settings and how they affect service delivery
  • quality assurance, best practice and accreditation standards
  • strategies to support, motivate and encourage person and carers
  • concepts and procedures for stepping down treatment or intervention when person becomes distressed, in pain or wishes to stop
  • organisational policies and procedures in relation to:
  • confidentiality
  • documentation:

    reporting
    recording person data in relation to diagnostic and therapeutic programs or treatments
    written communication to Allied Health Professional

  • professional behaviour and presentation
  • infection control practices
  • work health and safety (WHS)
  • manual handling
  • supervision and delegation
  • manufacturer requirements
  • scope of practice of the Allied Health Assistant and Allied Health Professional
  • legal and ethical considerations relevant to allied health:
  • codes of practice for work in occupational therapy
  • privacy, confidentiality and disclosure
  • duty of care
  • discrimination
  • human rights
  • procedures to provide feedback
  • public liability and professional indemnity insurance
  • 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.

Required reading

The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by the VU Polytechnic and/or via the Victoria University Polytechnic e-Learning system.

As part of a course

This unit is studied as part of the following course(s):

Certificate IV in Allied Health Assistance
HLT43021 | Certificate iv | Duration:

Refer to the course page for information on how to apply for the course. VU takes care to ensure the accuracy of this unit information, but reserves the right to change or withdraw courses offered at any time. Please check that unit information is current with the Student Contact Centre.

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